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Ladies and Gentlehoofers,
Mark your calendars for Dec. 3-6 as we make our 3rd and likely final annual attempt to mount Marcy. Having only conquered Mt. Phelps and gotten within eye sight of Marcy's final summit, this year is the year; after all, third time's a charm.
To give you an idea of what you're getting into, this is basically a weekend trip to the Appalachian Mountains in New York with a detour through Canadia and Niagara Falls and crap loads of snow which makes for a pretty surreal climb. This is the third annual trip and the last two years have been amazing; easily in the top five trips I've ever done.
The goal this year is to rectify our failed attempts at mounting Marcy, the highest point in New York State. And also, finally figure out how to get through Canada unscathed (the first time they wouldn't let us in resulting in a circumnavigation of the great lakes, the second time they wouldn't let us out resulting in 7 hours of snowball fights and surviving on Wasa crackers on the Canadian highway system).
Other distractions along the way: Lake Placid was home to the 1932 and 1980 winter olympics (remember Miracle? That was here). This means Lake Placid has a bobsled track....that you can go bobsledding on. Currently 10 people are on the Hoofer Bobsled team (and we have t-shirts to prove it). The cabins we stay in have a sauna. Saunas are sweet. There's also lots of snow. Saunas plus snow are even sweeter. What I'm trying to get at is that you can join the Hoofer 200 club.
Details: Cost will be $150 (with a refund of up to $30 likely) for the essentials (gas, cabins, beverages, 4am gas station map purchase). Lake Placid is pretty awesome, by far one of my favorite towns. Go to http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2497781&id=8607798&l=919d1d3596 to see pictures from last year. We stay in this cabin http://www.cobblemountainlodge.com/cabins2/5.htm and cram up to 12 people into it.
We'll leave Madison at 6pm on Thursday, December 3rd and arrive back in Madison sometime Monday morning (roughly 6am). The detailed itinerary is below. All you need to bring is warm clothes for hiking and a sleeping bag if you're on the floor. Questionable goods will be acquired AFTER crossing borders. Departure times, Canadian detours and the like are all subject to adjustment if they cause issues, just make them known.
Currently there are 10 spots with an option to go to 12 pending vehicular transportation.
If you're seriously interested and ready to put down your $50 deposit if selected, email schmudlach@wisc.edu with answers to the following questions to be considered. Those deemed worthy based on your answers below or my first hand knowledge of you will be notified in approximately 1 week if you've got a space. Hint: make me giggle. Believe the two people who went last year that later told me they were almost too intimidated to go. "I'm so happy I went, I have no idea why I thought everyone would be so hardcore, everybody was awesome."
1. Are you a current Hoofer member?
2. Are you reliably available from 6pm Thursday to 6am Monday on the weekend of December 3-6?
3. What's your degree? (Bonus given to most obscure)
4. What is your all time life goal?
5. What is one of the things you would put on your “bucket” list?
6. Do you like waterfalls, mountains, glaciers, and all that is pretty?
7. What is the weirdest job you've ever had?
8. Can you poop in the woods, even if the toilet paper is frozen?
9. Do you like riding in the bitch seat of a sub-compact car for 1000 miles while "We Built this City" and swedish techno play on repeat?
9a. Do you have a car with good MPGs that would be willing to make the trip?
10. If you had a yacht, what would you name it?
11. How do you realistically feel about hiking/climbing 14 miles with 4,000 feet elevation change at the crack of dawn while it is snowing and cold?
12. Are you allowed in Canada?
13. Will you be allowed back into the United States?
14. Do you have a passport?
15. What word would you add to the dictionary if you could, what would it mean?
**Extra Credit**: Can you give me a reason that makes you worthy no matter how you answered the previous questions?
Details: Cost will be $150 (with a refund of up to $30 likely) for the essentials (gas, cabins, beverages, 4am gas station map purchase). Lake Placid is pretty awesome, by far one of my favorite towns. Go to http://www.new.facebook.
We'll leave Madison at 6pm on Thursday, December 3rd and arrive back in Madison sometime Monday morning (roughly 6am). The detailed itinerary is below. All you need to bring is warm clothes for hiking and a sleeping bag if you're on the floor. Questionable goods will be acquired AFTER crossing borders. Departure times, Canadian detours and the like are all subject to adjustment if they cause issues, just make them known.
Currently there are 10 spots with an option to go to 12 pending vehicular transportation.
If you're seriously interested and ready to put down your $50 deposit if selected, email schmudlach@wisc.edu with answers to the following questions to be considered. Those deemed worthy based on your answers below or my first hand knowledge of you will be notified in approximately 1 week if you've got a space. Hint: make me giggle. Believe the two people who went last year that later told me they were almost too intimidated to go. "I'm so happy I went, I have no idea why I thought everyone would be so hardcore, everybody was awesome."
1. Are you a current Hoofer member?
2. Are you reliably available from 6pm Thursday to 6am Monday on the weekend of December 3-6?
3. What's your degree? (Bonus given to most obscure)
4. What is your all time life goal?
5. What is one of the things you would put on your “bucket” list?
6. Do you like waterfalls, mountains, glaciers, and all that is pretty?
7. What is the weirdest job you've ever had?
8. Can you poop in the woods, even if the toilet paper is frozen?
9. Do you like riding in the bitch seat of a sub-compact car for 1000 miles while "We Built this City" and swedish techno play on repeat?
9a. Do you have a car with good MPGs that would be willing to make the trip?
10. If you had a yacht, what would you name it?
11. How do you realistically feel about hiking/climbing 14 miles with 4,000 feet elevation change at the crack of dawn while it is snowing and cold?
12. Are you allowed in Canada?
13. Will you be allowed back into the United States?
14. Do you have a passport?
15. What word would you add to the dictionary if you could, what would it mean?
**Extra Credit**: Can you give me a reason that makes you worthy no matter how you answered the previous questions?
Itinerary looks like this:
Thursday (12/3) :
leave Madison ~6:00pm
Friday (12/4) :
~9:00am - see Niagara Falls, stay 10 minutes. ~9:10am - Drive the rest of the way to New York
~4:00pm - Arrive at Cobble Mountain Lodge, walk around Lake Placid.
Saturday (12/5) :
6:00am - get up and climb a mountain via this trail http://www.
8:00pm - celebrate successful climb
Sunday (12/6) :
12:00pm - Go bobsledding, leave
~6:00am - get home
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