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canada general moosling snow trip reports

Return to Watridge Lake

The last time I passed by Watridge Lake I was 34 weeks pregnant, feeling too warm, with sore feet, and generally feeling as if I’d hiked far enough. We’d hiked through from Sunshine Meadows to Mount Assiniboine, and I’d already travelled 19-20km that day. I was kind of hoping for a travelator to take me home. Or a small helicopter. Perhaps a tame and friendly moose.

This time I returned with a baby on the outside, and a tame snow-shoer to pull along the Chariot.

It took us less than an hour to reach the lake! I was flabbergasted.

Watridge Lake

A happy moosling in his Chariot

After having lunch on the far side, we returned home.

I remember these signs all too well. Six months ago, they kept promising me that I was really near the end. “The car is this way”, they would say. But no mention of distance. It seemed to take forever. Obviously I’m not the only one to have felt this way.

On the drive back to Canmore we came across some moose! They were standing on the road, and weren’t entirely sure what to do as I drove slowly up to them. After running along the road for a while, in a remarkably sheep-like fashion, they worked out how to dive off into the trees (where they glared at us balefully).

Spray Lakes Road Moose

Tags baby, canada, chariot, cross-country, moose, mount shark, skiing, snow, watridge lake

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Because everyone needs more cupcakes

Post author By megan
Post date 6.2.2011
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These are M&M cupcakes – based on the recipe from Starry Moon Cupcakes.

I’m getting the hang of this cupcake thing – this mixture turned out a little stiff, and I ended up with small cupcakes and a LOT of icing. Still tasty. VERY sweet.

M&M cupcakes
2 cups of flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 brown sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup melted butter (about 90g)
2/3 cup milk
2 free range eggs slightly beaten
1 teaspoon of vanilla
baking M&Ms (I added a slightly random amount)

Sift all dry ingredients into a bowl, stir to combine.
In a separate bowl combine melted butter, milk, eggs and vanilla.
Pour into the dry mix, stir till combined, then add your M&Ms.
Bake at 180 degrees for 15 minutes or until skewer is clean.

Butter Cream Frosting
200gm butter at room temp
3 cups icing sugar
2-3 Tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla essence

Cream the butter, sift in the icing sugar, mix well. Add essence, then just enough milk to get the right consistency (I didn’t add enough). Top with regular M&Ms.