McGill Shoulder

Another Revelstoke weekend at Cat's place (we may need to start paying rent soon). It seems like it hasn't stopped snowing in Revelstoke since December. Each weekend we gawk at the amount of snow that has accumulated since the last time we were here. Houses are nearly buried, snowbanks hide full sized cars. Then the next weekend there is even more snow. It's astonishing.

I think we should buy a little place here. I really like it. Hopefully the proposed mega ski resort doesn't change the character of the town.



We drove up on Friday night with Fred through some pretty dodgy road conditions. On Saturday morning we met Don. Don had spent the night in his truck camper. Coolest thing about Don's camper is that it's equipped with a tiny little woodstove. He keeps the fire stoked even when he's driving so that when he pulls over the camper will be nice and toasty warm. You can imagine the number of times that people have passed Don on the highway frantically waving their arms trying to tell him that his truck's on fire.

We were at McGill Shoulder today. Here's a post from last month if you want to see a map. As usual when we stay at Cat's we got a late start -- when we arrived in Don's truck there had to be 20 cars at the trail head. We headed off with the smell of wood smoke hanging in the air...

An uneventful day for the most part; the snow was fantastic, the skiing was great.

Gawd we're spoiled.







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