Today was a beautiful day we woke up to sunshine on the mountains and clear blue skies, so I decided to go to town for some things we needed to get and to see what the snow conditions were like at the other end of the road. One thing I found was that there was no snow from the snowpark parking area to our garage, thankfully the fire road trail still had some snow with patches of water and mud that I could use to get my snowmobile to where our truck is parked. At our garage there was almost no snow compared to what was just there last week when I went out. This was a nice change from the 4" of rain we had gotten over the weekend which took our snow level here down to just above 8' of very compact snow, and last night got cold enough to freeze everything that melted yesterday, making it possible to walk anywhere in the snow without post holing while walking. I got home around 3:15pm with everything I bought stuffed into my backpack and saddlebags on the sled, it's heavy but it works quite well. We had just gotten everything put away when I looked outside and saw someone outside on the porch.
I went out and found a friend Ivan Gibbs had snowmobiled up with another friend of his Don, they had been enjoying the groomed trails out here and decided to come for a visit. It was very unexpected but such a great time, we went out to the powerhouse and bowling alley but mostly were looking at all of the back country skiing that is available and untouched at this time. You just never know who or when someone might show up. In the last few weeks we've had more friends out here than most people that can walk next door to their neighbor and it takes a little longer to get here. Yesterday the martens today Ivan & Don. What does the rest of the week have in store.
It was nice to see it start snowing just before they left to go home and has continued on through the night giving everything a nice white coat of snow. I can't wait to get out in it and play before it is gone .
