For the few people who don't know it yet, I'm taking the upcoming Friday and Monday off to go on a camping trip. A backcountry camping trip. My first backcountry camping trip.

Basically, you drive to the mountains, leave your car at the bottom, and hike for three days. You pack everything in a super-big backpack -- clothes, food, tents, stoves, and whatnot. Since you'll be hiking with this backpack on, you want everything to be super-light. Four pound tents. Three pound sleeping bags. Tons of dehydrated food. Bear spray.

I bought a few new things for the trip, but it should all be re-usable for my next camping trip with Fane in early August.

Should be fun. Dan, Cheryl and I are leaving Friday, car-camping for a night, then will be hiking about 45km over the next three days. It's somewhere around Japser, but I'm not sure exactly where. I do know that the backcountry-camping area has a fire ban, which is sucky. Most of the fun of camping is, after all, roasting food and getting drunk around the fire at night (side note: Dan's bringing a mickey of Everclear for the trip, which should be more than enough alcohol). We drive back Monday night, and I get to go to work Tuesday morning. Yay!