Last week and this week

I had gone out with the intention of building igloos with Don but we were unable to find suitable snow.

I spent the night in the tent again this time without heat. The US sleeping bag worked very well after it was closed properly. Temp went to -30s I slept soundly for 6hrs and stayed in the bag for another 1 1/2  trying to convince myself I didn't have to get up. But the call of nature was too strong. I got up at about 6am and discovered my boots were frozen solid from tramping through snowbanks the previous day. After some difficulty getting them on I snowshoed back to the cabin and made coffee.



Feb 5th

I went out to check on the tent and shovel the snow off the skirts on Saturday. There was about 2 feet of snow which had fallen from the tent creating a really good seal around the bottom. I was very pleased that the ice from the melt didn't stick to the tent and fell off easily as I shovelled the snow off. This as all in preparation for moving the tent on Feb 12th for the BitterSweet loppet in two weeks. Cousin Ross and Laura will be there to help but one or two more people to help would make a difference.