canoes are cheaper in blizzards

2 days before we leave for manitoba.  a huge blizzard is raging.  the local adds showed "red canoe, $40.  moving must sell."  sell it he did.  to me.  if the snow was water, i'd be floating.  unless it's full of holes, then i'd not be.

Driving home with this on the roof of the truck through a foot of fallen and falling snow was already worth the $40.

$40 red canoe

Needless to say it's gonna get a test run and be featured in some prominent adventures in the future.  Now there's room for more friends.  just gotta find more adventure minded people.  send them my way if you know any.

as if yesterday wasn't adventure enough...

so yesterday just wasn't enough. tom and i headed out today up to beaver lake. we were supposed to meet mike there, but we met him in the ditch on the road instead. it's all good, we all made it up and back down.

bedises the blizzard conditions on the way up, our first problem was that someone had plowed the road into beaver lake forestry site closed. 4wd lo took care of that.

since we were the first ones to drive through the snowbank, we had first tracks on some minty nice powder.this was the same powder that we'd have to dig the 4runner out of on the way out. 2 guys and 2 shovels sure can move a lot of snow when getting home depends on it. no pics of the digging. hands too cold.

so we got to the site and found deep deep powder everywhere. and a family of 7 tenting out?? yup. we cleared a picnic table, lit the fire and proceeded to whip up some of the best ribs ever.

while the ribs were cooking, the sky cleared off and besides the 2 inches of snow on the truck, there was no sign of the white out conditions that we drove up in. in fact, we walked out onto the ice and snagged these sweet shots...








another sweet trip. good thing we had shovels and a toe strap. boys and girls, don't leave home without them.