echo lake. it's been a while.

This weekend we headed up to echo lake near lavington to do a few things; snowmobile, shoot guns, fish, drink beer, and (last but not least) visit wayne and natasha. we did it all. what a great time.


We got set up on the lake a bit later in the afternoon, but packed a lot of awesome into it.

Step 1.  drill a hole.

snowshoeing at telemark

Saturday, Christine and I put on the snowshoes and headed to telemark, on the west side. actually, first we headed there then we put on the snowshoes.  The sun had begun its evening decent when we started, so we chose a 7k trail that would have us back before dark.

quick trip up oyama

Saturday, it was time to get the truck snowy. norm and i headed up to oyama lake. not a crazy trip, but a good one.  had to get out of the valley to enjoy the sun, so we did.  here are some pics.

told you it was sunny

New Year for New adventures

i know yesterday i was literally sitting on a beach getting a tan, but now it's time to get back to the reality of canada. Can't let a bit of snow stop me. We were going to go icefishing, but a lack of volunteers and a bit of a late start. better late than never.

i met up with louie and we hopped in my truck, heading up to chute late.

our 1st stop was at the top of gillard on the KVR. we whole valley was covered in cloud, and we were well above it. looked like a valley full with snow. pretty cool.

panorama of the cloudy valley

christmas in st. lucia!!

So christmas this year was spent in St. lucia with my fam. it was my wife and i, my parents, mark and naomi, andrea and carl and their baby abigail. the 9 of us had a blast. here are the highlights.

told you we were gonna get more wood this weekend

so, not that i need more wood, but i needed to run a saw in the bush and drive around in 4x4. we did just that. again.

back up to postil for the sawing part of the program.

working hard

Then back up to the cliff to burn some of it.  and shoot some guns.  and generally have a time.

sunday is for firewood

sunday was time for more firewood, so i met norm at the bottom of postil and up we went.

our usual firewood spot

a lot of the wood in the usual firewood spot had been burned.  not cut and burned at home, but burned on the spot.  not sure why the forestry compamies do this.  it they leave it there, it will all get cut up and brought home by someone.  probably me.