So it occurs to me that I never write anymore.... and not just here, but anywhere. I've been SO busy doing freelance work and school stuff that I just haven't had the time to do it.
Plus there's the planning for the militia group that I'm helping to start out at the fort... that's kept me pretty well busy too. I didn't have any clue that there would be so much fore-planning involved in such an event.... but I guess that's what happens when you build a program from scratch.
I'm REALLY looking forward to the weather getting warm and being able to get out to the fort again... being inside all winter has made me a little stir-crazy. I'll get my fix soon enough though... the militia muster interest encampment is coming soon and I'll have a whole weekend full of guys in their 18th century togs.
I'm sure to have some decent pictures from the event, I had to find a photographer to take some pics for future promotional purposes... so that'll be fun. Maybe we'll get some good stuff out of it.
My Winter Adventure
Digging out the interior of the tightly packed 'polar dome'. We slept in this beast for the three nights we stayed in the field.
The view on the frozen 'Flash Lake' where we got our drinking water while in camp. Our campsites were right beside it.
Traveled to Ely MN right after Christmas with a group from school. Slept outside in the snow and ice, built a polar dome (igloo), dogsledding, ice fishing, crossed a frozen lake with an island in the middle of it. It got down to zero the very first night out in the polar dome... and you haven't lived til you wake up with snow in your face.
At one point, my foot broke thru the ice of Flash Lake and my right foot got wet. It turned pretty ugly... frostbite sucks. Didn't loose anything tho, and had a fantastic time. I got to see things that I've never seen before and do things I might never get to do again... which was what it was all about.
I learned some interesting things about cold weather survival... like the fact that I can do it.
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