Backpacking, Part 1: Driving to the Whitewater Trail Head

Sat, 02 Oct 2004 23:59:59 -800

At 6:00 I woke up and packed my backpack. At 6:30 the fire alarms went off,
trapping me outside in the freezing cold for an hour. Luckily for me, the
group had not departed
without me, so I threw as many things as I could remember into the car
and hurriedly drove off towards our meeting point in SE. Amazingly, I only
forgot my water bottle (borrowed one from Lara) and my eyeglass case (Eliza's
tent had a pocket for it). When I finally made it to the rendezvous, there
were four people waiting for me: Lara, David, Ana and Eliza--the peole I had
met at Powell's a month ago. It looked like this was going to be a fun trip!