Truck 2 has been waiting for an adventure for a week or so now. Saturday was the day. Tom came over and i swapped the tires from truck 1 while he changed his oil. it was raining. we got wet.
the original plan was to go have a fire and cut some wood, but the rain turned the plan into "go for a random cruise around"
we did. went up postil to the usual firewood area. it was slushy and wet, so we explored some of the trails. a few new ones too.
we soon got to postil lake which was still very frozen over. it was like someone turned winter on at about 1200m.
there were drifts as tall as tom
and we found a sweet mini trail on the way down
It was a very successful and safe first adventure for truck 2.
CHAPTER 2: which i have entitled "THE NEXT DAY"
in which Christine and Ryan go for a canoe
The title of chapter 2 pretty much says it all.
I put the canoe on the top of truck 2 (here-on in referred to as "the truck") and we went to a small beach off the spit of land separating wood lake and Kal lake.
Then we paddled it. First outing this year.
The 2 lakes felt weirdly different. Wood lake felt big and dark
then there was a little channel connecting the lakes. trailers lined one side and it felt like canoeing through 15 peoples' back yard.
then into Kal lake. calmer and greener. it always looks like a tropical lake from the highway. it felt a lot smaller because we stayed along the shore and explored the shoreline
we landed the canoe in a beach for an unnecessary portage, but we did it since before our 7 day trip on the bowron lakes in june, we thought a little practice might be in order.
the fruit tree was staring to bloom and we walked around the beach and ate some pretzels.
a very solid weekend. 1st truck adventure and 1st canoe. good start to the spring adventures.
