Arduous Winter Trek -->
We rescued our winter tent from that last 18inch snowfall beginning of March, breaking trail 14K more than 24 inches deep, up the Barron River from the bridge (because AFA stopped plowing early), && that beautiful long long Canyon, then sections on thin ice to avoid getting tangled in alders impossibly up to our tits in snow, left at 7 a.m. arrived at 6 p.m. u should have heard me when I keeled over, ripped the snowshoe bindings right off, pulled various feet muscles ... got snow up to my armpits, lost 1 glove ... struggling to get out of a crazy angle worse than a beached walrus ... and Frank - 'out of hearing range' @#!!!!!
Frank is very sorry he was too far ahead to ASAP help, because I now need new $$snowshoes !!! (just kidding, Sherpa Claws are aLwAyS repairable!@#)
Took the winter tent down next morning and trekked 14k back to our car. As my sled was piled sooo high, it takes 2 people to stop it from falling over ... the person behind lends a hand at bad spots ... I damaged both groin muscles, and even my teeth hurt
now THATZ wilderness tripping !!!
Hilariously AFA had second thoughts and plowed later to Travers+ ... so we did get the tent out the easy way ...
Here's to whining about ugly tripping ... preferably sharing a bottle of Brandy ... ahahahaaa !!%$!@#
