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Worst WET
Here is a good question for anyone who spent anytime in 10th Grp. What was you'r absolutely worst WET.
Mine had to be my first one back in 2000. We went up to the Flattops, near Vail. Well the snow line was really high (about 8,000 ft) and we knew we were going to have to walk all the way up to it, before we could get our ski's on. Since we knew we were going to have to walk we decided to go without our polks >sp< so we had to go extremely light. Mistake number 1-we decided to leave all the tents. Since this was my first WET and I had come from Hawaii I didn't know anything about cold weather, and the advice I was given was go with the NATO death slats (the name should have given me a hint) and since we knew we had a good slog, they said wear your Reichle's. That would be mistake number 2 and 3. Well morning one started out bright and beautiful and the B-Team dropped us off as high as they could get (about 6500 ft) and we started walking. That night we hit the snowline, and set up camp. The next morning we started skiing, about noon the weather hit. We ran into a stationary front that unbeknownst to us at the time would stay over us for the next 5 and a half days. We had a long ski movement to our final location and we just kept pushing through, setting up a differant camp each night. Well using hindsight, we should of stopped and set up camp and waited out the storm, but we kept moving. We were on average getting about a foot of snow a night. The final straw, was the 5th night of the storm. We had used poncho's to try and cover our snow pit, but it snowed so much it broke through the ponch and cover us in snow, and because we had so much snow that night the snow from the side of the pit caved in and covered a couple people who were in there fart sacks, one of the guys while trying to crawl out of his sleeping bag unzipped it and the snow came inside his sleeping bag, drenching his bag. Well the next morning there are only a few people who do not have signs of frost nip, hypothermia, or trench foot. The Cpt makes the call and the NG guys from Vail (HATS) fly in through the blizzard and pull us out. We recover for a day and then we go back out and finish up the exercise.
Of course for the rest of the time we have great weather.
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