Where:  Ashland, WI
What: Book Across the Bay, a 10km ski / snowshoe race across the Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior
When: 7^th weekend Winter Term 2006 (and 2005, and 2004)
Leaders: Mark Dyson + Helen Behr
Notes:

45+ people came on this trip. 9 vehicles: 1 campus van, seven personal cars, 1 cargo van to haul cargo like skis and snowshoes.

Left Saturday morning at 10am, 1 hour drive to REI to rent skis for those that couldn't get them from the Rec Center. Then to Tobies along Hwy 35 for lunch (in the parking lot out of the back of a van. It was cold).

We drove to Ashland, dropped everyone off (~3:45 pm), then drivers drove to Washburn (the end of the race) to drop off the cars and took the shuttle back to the race start (but this went poorly; people were late to the start). In the future, we should drop the cars off first at Washburn, and then everyone should take the shuttle to the race start. That would work way better.

Post-race (started at 6, all students were done by 9 or so), ate lots of (free) chili in the awards / party tent at the end, then drove to Northland College where we had arranged to spend the night on the floor of dorms. This arrangement was done by email with personal contacts, and we brought our hosts gifts to offset the imposition of 45 smelly Carleton kids on their floor.

We left at 8 the next morning, some cars got back for brunch, some didn't.