Blog #5: Green Mountain Expedition
Our winter home On February 20th we ventured out from our basecamp in Marlow with high spirits, excited that we were finally getting on the trail. We crossed Lake Warren and continued on until we were 0.5 kilometers east of Beaver Wood Pond, where we had our first real experience of setting up our winter camp. We learned about site selection for our tent, stove setup, and evergreen bough harvesting for our tent floor. This would become our routine for the duration of our winter legs. We quickly learned how privileged we are to be “hot” camping when, at some point or another, each of us will have to leave the safety of our shelter in the middle of the night to go pee. Leaving Kroka Base Camp Cooking dinner over the outside firescreen In this same vein, we are learning to have a relationship to cold and one of my semester mates, Grace J., beautifully captured this in a reflection she wrote about befriending the cold: “I certainly know that when I fir