White Christmas
Cold Jack on the Dakota Ridge snow shoe trail going grey with ice and snow Tue Dec 28th The weather predictions were pretty accurate and the snow and cold temperatures have continued through the Christmas weekend. It has been a very 'white Christmas'. Nick and Lizzie arrived mid afternoon Christmas Eve and stayed through to Monday afternoon. Hopkins Landing Wharf just after dawn Sadly the NZ branch could not make it because of work demands, (their summer of course) covid restrictions and expensive returning quarantine requirements, nor Fred's sister from London. We had a great few days and though we could not meet in person, Zoom kept us in touch with distant relations. The local walks and weather made Christmas rather special and it was mainly blue skies in between the snow showers. Day time it's been around -5c and -16c at night. The road up to Sprockids Trails Boxing day (it's called that in Canada as well) we headed down to Cliff Gilker ...