Archive:Winter Longhike 2009

	Old Trip
	This is the sign up and organization page for an old trip. It already happened. Please do not sign up for it.

Introduction

Everything is different when you go into the backcountry in the winter; that's why there is Winter Longhike, an introductory trip for winter camping. This is usually a big trip with lots of keen people aboard who want to get out, learn some new skills, and sleep in their very own snow shelter while still managing to have fun too. It's an easy, beginner friendly trip, so if you've never even seen snow before you can still have a good time. Other fun activities that often happen at Winter Longhike are a cooking competition, sing alongs, costume competitions, and the occasional great ski run on Sunday.

Past destinations have included:

• Red Heather Meadows in Garibaldi Park
• Fat Dog Creek in Manning Park
• Falls Lake (Coquihalla)
• Mt. Seymour

Date

January 10^th - 11^th, 2009

Pre-trip Meeting

There will also be a mandatory dry school on Tuesday,January 6 @ 6pm (location TBD) to arrange rides, food, driving instructions, and go over some snowcave theory.

Location

TBD

Directions

TBD

Equipment List

Personal

In winter especially, none of your clothing should be made out of cotton. Anything synthetic is safe. Just remember, Cotton Kills.

• sleeping pad
• sleeping bag (rated for winter, or 3 season if you sleep warm)
• garbage bags (2-3)
• warm jacket (fleece or down)
• warm pants (fleece or thick long underwear)
• long underwear
• layers (fleece or wool sweaters)
• toque, mitts (2 pairs, or a set of waterproof shells)
• goggles and avalanche beacon if skiing Sunday
• warm socks (2 pairs, wool/wool mix)
• waterproof jacket (goretex or coated nylon)
• waterproof pants (goretex or coated nylon)
• gaiters
• cup, bowl, spoon, knife
• good waterproof boots (wax them before the trip) or ski boots
• skis and skins if skiing, or snowshoes
• poles
• toothbrush etc.
• sunscreen and glasses (we can hope, right?)
• water bottle (1L)
• lunch, snacks, breakfast, dinner contribution (in winter you will need 2500-3500 calories per day, fat-rich stuff keeps you warm)
• headlamp
• gas money for your driver
• camera if you want

If you want to go skiing on Sunday before heading out to the cars, make sure to bring

• avalanche transceiver
• shovel
• probe (optional but recommended)

Small Group

3-4 people per group, organized at trip meeting along with car groups

• shovels (1-2)
• probe
• stove + fuel + lighter (you'd be surprised how often one of these stays home)
• pots

Big Group

Everyone

• first aid kits (2)
• song books (4)
• snow saw
• maps, compass, etc

Sign Up

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Put your name down as well as if you have any experience winter camping or building snowcaves.

1. Champagne
2. Emma VB
3. Richard So (good at collapsing snowcaves)
4. Ran Z
   
5. Laura C (previous winter camping experience *in tents, never in a snowcave* and a decade of snow shoveling experience)
6. Justin Hall
7. Lewis Kitchen (Is really warm)
8. Dan Boland
9. Agathe Lemaire
10. Breanne Johnson
11. Ignacio R (never camped in the snow, but have sweet sandcastle-building skills)
12. Christian S. (built a couple with varying degrees of success)
13. Adrian Martynkiw
14. Eliza Boyce
15. Artem Bylinskii
16. Will Whitty (lots and lots of winter camping, some snow cave and quinzhee building)
17. Colin Pither (only winter camping experiences have been in quinzhees)
18. Tony Higginson
19. Andrew Turner
20. Meg Anderson
21. Lisa Erdal
22. Diana Dragomir
23. Rozzy
24. Chantelle Chan
25. Ralph Bragg (Emma VB's Brother!:))
26. Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
27. Nichole Holdbak
28. Eleanor Humphrey
29. Laura Morrison (winter camping exp., was on this last year)
30. Manuela Hayn
31. Jasmine McEachern
32. Lee Wasilenko
33. Afton Halloran
34. Sophia Toft Moulton
35. Jeremy Sklad
36. Matthew Carroll (have built and slept in various snow shelters, sometimes large, dry, and intentional, sometimes small, wet, and unplanned)
37. Elissa Smith
38. Silja Hund
39. Daniel Ehing
40. Robyn Hooper
41. Emily Ackroyd

Rides

Since this is such a big trip, rides are usually coordinated at the dry school to match drivers with passengers who live close to them. However, please indicate here if you have a car, where you are leaving from and how many people you can transport.

• Driver's Name [email, location leaving from, # of passengers]

• Eliza Boyce [ejunkza@gmail.com, East Van, 4 more passengers if everyone packs light]

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• Matthew Carroll (email, Kits, 6 passengers)

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Carless

1. Meg Anderson
2. Colin Pither
3. Emma VB
4. Champagne
5. Ralph Bragg
6. Diana Dragomir
7. Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (but can rent and drive car without the cost of insurance, which comes free with my credit card; i.e. volunteer driver)
8. Eleanor Humphrey
9. Laura Morrison (at UBC)
10. Manuela Hayn
11. Sophia Toft Moulton (UBC)
12. Chantelle Chan