The preparation for this trip was extensive. It was going to be our third time in the mountain range, but this time with plans to spend a week camping in the reserve and than a week staying in a cabin at the Gite du Mont-Albert. It would be the longest back country ski trip any of us had ever gone on. There was four of us, Alex Gemme, Reese Freeman, Spencer Fitz-Gerald and myself, Chris Cullaz. We had received a grant from the Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation to help with food and gas, as well as some professional leadership funding from the UVM Outing Club. Without the support of these two organizations the trip probably wouldn't have happened.
