as i'm sitting in the airport waiting for my flight back to victoria, i figured i'd add a few pics from my trip back home...
ferry ride from vic to van
looking for whales in the wake (not even a porpoise)
a few views from the flight...
the cozy feeling of a first look at a familiar mountain
(outside the smithers airport)
sooo, funny story...after hiking in victoria, came home wanting to hike, but not anticipating all the remaining snow on the mountain...jon had a day off and wanted to drive out of smithers...perfect...drive somewhere a little west (terrace area) and have more of a chance of finding a hike that wasn't covered in snow--which pretty much took out all options to go up (no alpine hikes sans snowshoes!)...so we figured a hike around a lake would work...
scoured our hiking books and found one that we thought would be ideal...6 km around a lake, fairly flat, nothing leading towards alpine...
drove down an amazingly slow going rutted forestry road to finally find the small km marking for the trail head...got out, stretched, in awe at the wonderfully sunny and warm(ish) day...looked at the snow at the start of the trail and thought "huh. that's quite a bit more snow than anticipated--wonder if it's packed down enough"...
...and here's jon, his first few steps on to the "trail"...falling knee deep in the snow and saying "i don't think this is going to happen"...
and me saying "yes, yes it will...it has to happen...look..." and proceeding to fall thigh-deep into the snow with my 2nd step.
a seriously amusing day--worth the drive to terrace, excpet for the spontaneous decision to try this:
worst snack decision ever
-a.
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