The outdoor adventure club's latest escapade brought us to Kettle Moraine State Park, Wisconsin (Nov. 19-21). Kettle Moraine is a beautiful place with a landscape carved by glaciers over thousands of years. This was, aside from a very frigid ultimate tournament at UW Whitewater in college, my first attempt at cold weather camping. The temperature on Friday night was supposed to get down to the mid 20s and we faced a high of only mid 30s on Saturday. I figured that with all the money I've spent on camping gear, it was time to put up or shut up. There were six brave souls in the group and we all managed pretty well for the most part (aside from some pretty vicious blisters and poor planning/bad map reading by myself).
Cigars, Whiskey, and a fire with wet wood.
Oh yeah, and Spotted Cow
Farmer brought his HAM radio, but was unable to contact any extra-terrestrial life.
Did I mention it was the first weekend of deer (and apparently road sign) season?
Look, Matt's almost as tall as Sarah!
This is what I looked like when I found out Farmer brought Ginger snaps.
Matt Woodhead and I made chili for night two. I thought we would have had enough for lunch the next day as well, but we ate it all. I guess when you don't eat lunch and you hike 10 miles you get extra hungry.
We were out of water and the well near our shelter was closed due to contamination so we had to resort to Dark Lord. Thank you Matt!
5 or so miles into our hike out on Sunday, we made it to water. This tasted like liquid iron. But it was some of the best water I've tasted (which I think was influenced by the fact that I hadn't had any since the day before). We also met yet another extremely friendly Wisconsin resident at the water pump, which further proves our theory that everyone in Wisconsin is the nicest person ever.
Victory beers at the cars.
Did I mention it was 50 degrees and FOGGY all day on Sunday. Visibility was probably down to about 30 yards.
More victory beers and a pot luck at the Fifth Quarter. Yes, this bar was having a pot luck for the Packer's game. Sloppy Joes, string cheese dipped in cocktail sauce, taco-bean dip = Awesome.
Matt cheated on Sarah with some Packer fans and she got super jealous.
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