Again, with plenty of rocks underneath, but still soft and fluffy snow to play in.
The lifts weren’t spinning yet, but we went for a skin up, and a ski back down again (as soon as we hit the alpine, where the wind was blowing).
Category: canada
After getting up unfathomably early, we headed out into the cold (well it seemed cold at the time, it was below -10oC at any rate) and drove down into K-Country.
To Highwood Pass, and then to ski up to Elbow Lake, on very marginal coverage. There was lots of rock dodging, and finding bits of gear that needed adjusting after not having been used for six months or so. And it didn’t really warm up a lot, especially as we kept skiing in the shade.
Up at the lake we decided there wasn’t much motivation to go any further, so we skied back to the car and went and drank hot chocolate.
Snow on the peaks, nearly all the leaves gone from the trees, but no ice floes in the river yet… a warm Autumn this year.
It was a lovely day for a bike ride, sunny and warm. No, wait, I’m thinking of two months earlier.
On this day, it was cold, overcast and windy, but we went for a ride anyway. It snowed on us, which made for a slippery single-track descent.
But it was nice to get out.
Probably my last ride along the Legacy Trail before the weather turns and covers it with just enough snow to make it un-rideable, but probably not enough to make skiing the whole thing a fun idea (I have dreams of them grooming it for skate-skiing, that would be just awesome.
Photo taken with fancy new phone – amazing camera!