after quitting my job, days of preparation ensued... we spent days cooking and dehydrating food, and filling in the gaps with pre-made soups, beans, and enough (or so we thought) cooking oil, shorelunch, and tartar sauce for as much fish as we could imagine eating.
we found a pop-up ice fishing shelter on craigslist and decided to use that as our fishing shelter while at the cabin as well as our 'tent' while trekking out to the cabin. with a few small modifications it was ready for our stove that we had built out of an old 5 gallon pail.
we trekked around the frozen MISSISSIPPI river with the pulk sleds that we built, pulling them, fully loaded with around 120 pounds of gear apiece, with quick steps. grinning the entire time, finally feeling and knowing that we were going to pull this thing off.
we made some last minute phone calls up to MISSINPE to check on weather conditions (lots of snow we were told) and get our satellite phone service connected.
we were as ready as we could be and as anxious to leave as ever...