There’s actually a fairly decent amount of coverage, there’s just a section of the Banff Trail that’s absolutely awful (as half of the trail is bare to the asphalt for access to the enormous pile of sawdust).
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So, it finally warmed up to about -10oC, so with those positively balmy temperatures the Moosling and I headed up to the Nordic Centre to have a play in the snow.
It was more of as test run than anything, they could still do with a bit more snow at the Nordic Centre, and I didn’t want to get too far out and then have the Moosling wake up and start screaming with hunger. So we just did a short loop, he fell fast asleep just before we got going and stayed that way until I got back to the Daylodge.
We’re using an old infant bivy in there, that we got from a garage sale, and he’s in a super warm polar fleece sack suit inside of that – he stayed pretty warm, but we weren’t out for long. There’s some padding around the bivy for extra insulation, but I might add a bit more. And he’ll probably stay warmer once I stop compulsively opening the front cover to check that he really is still ok. All in all, it’s a pretty promising set up for proper adventures later on!
It’s not just the snow, now the bitter cold is here as well:
Thankfully it’s supposed to start warming up again tomorrow. Until then – well it’s nearly 11am, and it might be finally starting to head towards -25oC. Maybe.
And to think, I didn’t even realise that this needly tree hanging around outside my house was a larch, until it started to turn yellow and all the needles fell off.
