Most of my trips happen on short notice and go to places that I know like the back of my hand. Planning for those trips takes minutes, not hours or days. Who's in? Who's going to drive? What time should we leave? I toss some gear in a bag and off we go.
Not so with the bigger trips. These are the trips that happen only every few years and go someplace great. For me, the planning of these trips is an outlet for the anticipation and excitement that's building, and a chance to re-think gear and methods that are normally just "my way of doing it." I thought I'd share what goes through my head during this planning process.
