chute lake ice fishing and fire

friday i finished work at noon. i earned it after putting in 2 long days on wednesday and thursday. I picked up mike and we headed up to chute lake to meet ian and jesse. we (read "i")thought it might be cool to try the same route up as we took on the toy run in november. we had 1st track most of the way up.


until here. we just could not get up the steep hill in 18 inches of freshish snow. the only tracks we made past here were boot tracks.

so, we turned around, went back down and then went up gillard FSR. not too bad. then along the KVR to chute late, where jesse and ian and 3 dogs were already waiting for us. so was a fire.


we made some hole in the ice and promptly went back to the fire, checking on our hooks hourly.

it was a great trip. even though, on the way out i got stuck in a snowy ditch and, in the process of getting pulled out by ian, 1/2 tore off the front bumper, 3/4 tore off the passanger side mirror, and 100% dented the front fender. pics of that to follow.

and no, we didn't catch any fish.