With 10-20 cm dumping in the city, and so much more white stuff falling in the mountains (Burstall Pass had over 25 cm base before this most recent storm even hit!), it's time to start dreaming about snowshoeing! While there's still not enough of a base in the mountains for winter recreation yet (and it's still expected to be a snowless Halloween in the city -- with temperatures back up to 9C by the weekend), something about that first real snow fall always seems to get the winter enthusiasts drooling.
So to get through this transition, I thought we'd look back on a snowshoeing favorite... Chester Lake...
Even at the trailhead... deep snow goodness!
Heavy, wet, sloppy late winter/spring snow. It was still hanging in the trees, rounded off and thick.
Pure sunlight and blue sky in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. Perfect day!
It wasn't quite hoar frost, but something else...spiky, well defined ice crystals clung to the trees...
Damn.
And it was all over our poor frozen snowshoer too.
More ice. More crystals.
At Chester Lake. I'm not even sure the walking stick hit bottom.
Mushroom tree!
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