Real Hedgehogs Wear Spikes
- Leaders
- Rebecca Lantner (coB), Rowena Lindsay (coB), Tian Ong (B)
- Program
- Winter School
- Type
- Hiking
- Terrain level
- B
- Trip date
- Sunday, January 14th, 2024
- Difficulty rating
- Moderate
- Prerequisites
- Attended winter school lectures, hiked 5+ miles in any season
Grab your microspikes (or rent from MITOC) and join us for a hike up Mt. Hedgehog this Sunday! While we can't guarantee a hedgehog sighting*, we're planning to have a blast the first weekend of Winter School on this lovely loop hike with a view (weather permitting).
The trail is a little under 5 miles with ~1400 ft of elevation gain. We'll leave Cambridge early Sunday morning ~5:30am. The forecast on Sunday is looking pretty cold (below 0F with windchill) so we'll practice layering, traction, more layering, eating lots of winter-friendly calorie-dense hedgehog snackies, maybe some delayering, and then more layering! If you've never hiked in winter before, this trip will be a great intro.
*pretty sure hedgehogs don't live in the whites and if they do they're probably hibernating, sorry to disappoint. But you should still sign up for our hike. :)
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 7
- Signups opened at
- Jan. 10, 2024, noon
- Signups closed at
- Jan. 11, 2024, 11:59 p.m.
- Notes
- Do you have any winter hiking experience? If so, what hike(s) and when? If not, what is your 3-season hiking experience?
- Have you ever used traction - microspikes, crampons, snowshoes?
- What are you most excited for this winter school?
- Do you have any dietary restrictions / allergies?