Hello all,
We strapped snowshoes on our feet, asked Smiley and Cookie to stick with the pack, and set off with Kim and Smokey to climb Mt Lorne for some good views yesterday. It was a nice temperature for a long hike, and although somewhat overcast, we reached some incredible lookouts.
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| No leash- no problem! |
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| Those tracks are Smiley and Cookie running at top speed across a little lake. When we called them to come back, instead of running back the way they left, they ran around the circumference around the lake, and were hardly out of breath when they reached us! |
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| They did eat a whole bunch of snow to cool down, though |
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| Re-evaluating our route |
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| Understandably, navigating through a forest with no trail maps is a bit of a challenge (see Colin's face) |
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| Who cares where we're going, as long as I can run in the snow! Let's go! |
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| Kim and the pack. Her dog Smokey is an older lady, and has amazing stamina! |
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| The deep sugar snow slowed down the dogs once in a while, and they would try to follow our snowshoe tracks for about 30 seconds. Then they would decide that we were going too slow, and bound through the snowdrifts like rabbits :) |
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| Whew! This was the steepest hill we had to climb. Wait until you see how fun it was to get down... |
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| Almost there! |
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| Cookie was the first one up, and probably ran up and down the hill 3 or 4 times as we all slogged up |
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| Fantastic view from the halfway point |
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| Ready to go yet?! Come on, time to get going!?! |
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| As far as we got, just before the treeline |
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| Hello down there! |
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| That big hill turned out to be impossible to snowshoe down... |
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| ...and we all ended up surfing in the snow |
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| I'm not really posing, my right arm was stuck between snow and the backpack strap |
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| Thankfully there are no photos of the struggle out of the snowpile |
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| Last few steps home. Yes, Smiley and Cookie did make it back with us :) |
Happy weekend,
Love Lauren and Colin
Beauties! All of it!
ReplyDeleteWow What an adventure for any old day of the week eh? I'm constantly amazed at how life has expounded and developed for you. One year already, hard to believe but truly it sounds like you are making the very best of your Yukon home. Can't say I would be as enterprising as you both seem to be but then I'm just a city yokel at heart I think and an older one at that. Spring will arrive soon as it has here in TO. Temp is supposed to be 13 and I can see the tulips poking thru already.John will start is 3 day work week at the end of this month as he eases into retirement and finishes finally in of 2013. I know it's a cliche expression but time has gone by so quickly. It's scarey. We have much to be grateful for.
ReplyDeleteKeep the blog going it helps to stay in touch.
Love John & Deb