Vancouver

According to the calender it's winter. Which usually means hills above 900m have snow. That does not seem to be the case. A snowboard session yesterday revealed that there is actually no snow below 1000m and a big lake in the middle of the ski runs.

But that didn't stop us! We head up to find a small patch of snow and proceeded to carelessly launch ourselves off eroded jump. Man I feel like I have overdue debts to the mafia today.....

Well this has turned into the Winter Snowshoe Blog Report. My Dad has been visiting for a little over a week now and we decided to go out snowshoeing again. So here is an update of our trip to Seymour Provinical Park and our tour around Dinky Peak.



Here is the beginning of our nice 4 hour trip. The snow has been fanatastic. About 100cm of fluffy powder and cold temperatures to keep it from melting into ice.



Atop the mighty "Dinky Peak".

So Dori and I rented some snowshoes with the intention of making it to Elsay Lake, but for whatever reason the trail was "blocked". We assumed there might have been significant avalanche danger and decided not continue. Rather, we headed back and took a detour up to Dog Mountain. While there might be other reasons for the name, to me, clearly, it was the amount of dog's that walked the trail. At the top we looked over an overcast Vancouver, but beautiful clear skies above us. It's nice to get out of Vancouver and remind yourself that the sun shines above the clouds.

Update: It turns out that the Elsay Lake trail is closed in the winter due to Extreme Avalanche danger.