Somehow, Nadarresh has a bad feeling about this...

Dayereth thinks south makes more sense, more towns, more supplies, better ability to deal with unforseen situations and injury.

Dayereth also wants to prepare.  He'd like to suggest to everybody, at the expense of sounding repetitive, that perhaps we should purchase mounts, and a wagon for Nadarresh, and to hold supplies and cold weather camping gear.  Basically we form our own little caravan for safety and to save time on the trip.
((Game terms, good idea because during travel you must make endurance checks, I imagine even moreso during winter. Failed endurance checks cause loss of healing surges and penalties to rolls, as Dayereth discovered last time.  Nadarresh doesn't have any and will take damage or die.  Mounts will prevent this.))

((If I recall correctly, travel only starts involving the loss of healing surges once you start going more than a certain number of hours per day (~8?).  If you just travel a reasonable, not-overly-strenuous amount, you don't risk losing healing surges.

Also, can we get some DM clarification on whether Nadarresh would be at risk of losing healing surges if we traveled more than the normal number of hours per day?  If we had him lying down in a wagon, he wouldn't really be exerting himself significantly...

Mounts:  I'm not strongly opposed to our getting them, but they're expensive and have a slight tendency to get killed when you run into monsters, especially if they're not warhorses, which they won't be.  So I tend to try to avoid buying them in the first place.  I'm not strongly opposed, though, if people want to do it that way.))

I believe exposure rules are covered in the DMG?

Hmm. I suppose we could blame you for Naddaresh's untimely demise. But he's only a fictional character anyway. Write yourself down to Fey-fields.

Group is in the grove of Druids at Fey-fields. Though he has perished not all is lost.  Perhaps Nadaresh can be awakened if his spirit is willing (and the components for the ritual are gathered) The first necessary component is spiritual essence  an ointment which as luck would have it, is in the possession of a friend of the druids a gnome named Wholian who lives a league south in a small farming community of Gable's Fork. The druids wish to hear news from the expected birth of twins from the town and given the good omen of a falling star in the night sky two weeks ago they expect the children have been born and are well.