return to murtle lake

the time was upon me for another sweet canoe trip.  usually i would head to manitoba around now to accomplish this, but this time around, mark and rude dog came to bc.  add kris to the party and you have a party.  4 people, 2 canoes, 4 days, 1 lake.

their plane landed at midnight thursday, and by friday 430 am we were on the way to blue river and murtle lake.

step 1, portage 2.5 km to the lake. 

saturday. fish for dinner.

Saturday Wes picked up my canoe and I and off we went to Beaver Lake. Our mission was simple... catch fish.

Wes pointing to where the fish are.

may long. another tradition.

saturday a few of us decided to head into them hills and do some camping.  and canoeing.  and fishing. and standing in the rain.

we loaded up the ripper and took off towards beaver lake.  being may long and all, the site was totally full, and them some.  so we continued towards island lake.  a place i've been before, but not recently.

1st fish of the year.

back to the bush

what to do this weekend? how about go help out a buddy up in the bush? ok. so friday we headed up into the snow zone in mary's sweet 4x4. nothing could stop us!

meeting mr. bear

we got up there friday about 9pm.  the road was passable and not nearly as bad as everyone we met thought it was. we met up with our buddy right away and got to it.

halycon the third

easter weekend. you may know by now that means a trip to halcyon hotsprings for christine and i.

things got off to a rocky start when the side window of our car was shattered by a rock from a passing car. rocky start... get it. i can laugh about that now. but after hitting reset and making a few quick calls, we were off. in a car exactly like ours but silver and automatic. i had to hold christine's hand when i was driving to avoid shifting the stupid auto shifter thing. ar at least that was my excuse.

our rental car and our sweet little cabin.

a short drive and walk in the postil region

tom and i went for a walk. at postil. there is still lots of snow. we had a little off-trail explore and the snow was thigh deep. recon for summer camping will have to wait a bit longer. here are pictures.

forest trail

kris's birthday... in my new (to me) wall tent. yea.

Kris's birthday.  Also, the weekend after i scored a wall tent and stove off the local internet classifides.  Kris's party seemed like an epic time to try the tent.

heading up off the main rd.