Finally! It has been so long, and feels like even longer since I'd been camping. Fortunately, I got to rectify that this weekend! I took the AWFA course through Adventure & Safety Atlantic, which took place Friday to Monday. Fittingly, the course is mostly outside, and involves one overnight! The course itself was absolutely fantastic, and definitely keeps you on your toes! For the sake of not ruining the surprises for you, should you decide you want to take it (and you really should!), I won't go into any more detail than that.
Back to the camping: on the Saturday, we all set up camp in between learning things during the day. By the time we got to crawl into bed, I was very grateful that I had gone so far as to set up my liner in my sleeping bag and make my pillow; it was a long day! I slept really well, though the snow was quite loud, especially when it first started falling a short while after I went to bed. There were a couple times around 4 am where I woke up due to clumps of snow hitting the tent really hard. They sounded like muffled shots, or something (other than snow) hitting something else (other than the tent) and, based on the way the weekend had been going, this definitely put me on edge, just waiting for someone to start screaming or yelling. Fortunately, it was just snow hitting the tent at that point in time! Once I did have to get out of the tent, I popped my head out to the most beautiful scene. The snow cover was amazing, and amazingly distracting. For the rest of the day, snow falling from the trees on to my head was startling. One would think, based on the frequency with which it happened, that I would get used to natural snowballs hitting my head every few minutes, but no.
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Sue Hirst
12/4/2016 12:40:08
Looks....snowy! And fun!
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