Why am I not surprised his friends are Channers. From some of these comments, I keep forgetting that not everyone was around at the time of the internet where that kind of response was commonplace.
Is this the first time this series his name's actually been mentioned?
If he's just getting ready to go, won't they have already set off? He's going to try to catch up on them alone in the dark?
Calling it, next chapter has them pulling a P4G and getting lost in a blizzard.