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Volume 4
1/31/2009

Update January 31, 2009

Dear families, friends, and interested members of the community,

The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days, perhaps on Sunday. And least I should not be able to write to you as frequently on the trail, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eyes when we have left base camp.

That’s right everyone! We’re off! And though at times we feel like a herd of turtles, we hope the beauty and simplicity of trail life will quicken our steps and lighten our hearts. Due to the raucous pace of these last days before the trail begins, I have very little time to write, and therefore this update will be short but sweet.

The feeling around base camp is one of excitement, anxiety and the promise of high adventure quickly approaching. Thursday we spent the whole day packing out all of the food that we will eat both on the trail and at layovers for the next two months. There is a lot of it! We shoveled gallons of raisins and walnuts into trail mix. We cut and bagged cheese by the pound. We sorted everything into “trail legs”, then days, then breakfasts, dinners and snacks and packed them into the trailer to be delivered to us at layovers.

All week we have had presentations from our fellow students on their big jobs. We heard from Ethan and Hytham early this week about the gear we will be taking in our backpacks and on the trailer for layovers. We also heard from Ida and Aiden about trail and layover food- how much we will eat, what it will consist of and how it will be transported. Hagay told us how we will carry our travel guitar and the other instruments we have chosen to take on the trail and Jacob reminded us how much money we have left and how it will be spent. Dylan is readying the camera cords and charging the batteries and Daniela is putting the finishing touches on the first trail leg route. Miron washes our wool and Ari has finished the first aid re-supply. Lauren has planned and will be orchestrating our base camp “exit strategy,” and I am meanwhile frantically typing at the office computer.


The NHVSP ’09 leaving base camp on February 1, 2009

We are hoping to leave on Sunday from base camp and taking snowmobile trails west into Vermont to where they meet up with the originally planned route from Somerset at Moses Pond. We are very excited to be trying this new route, starting off from base camp and coming right back to base camp, all using our own power, and the technology of those generations long past that traveled the same land.

For the Vermont Semester Program 2009 this is Nelly Detra, the scribe.

The New Hampshire Vermont Semester reaching Lake Warren, NH. They are on their way!!!! Good Luck to all of them.

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