Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Cathedral Park

The weather forecast over the Labour Day weekend called for rain on Saturday, rain on Sunday, and then just for a change, rain on Monday.

But we were planning to head further south, deep into the hot, dry, fruit growing region south of Keremeos. It's a desert down there, I mean how wet could it be? If it rained at all it would probably just sprinkle a bit at worst; an Okanagan rain that makes you consider a light sweater rather than a raincoat. So we decided to follow through with our plan and we hiked into the Wall Creek area of Cathedral Park to attempt the Grimface-Macabre-Matriarch Traverse.

And in the end the forecast was absolutely completely wrong.

It snowed instead.

Sigh.

Here I am at home now on a Tuesday evening, warm and dry, tapping away at the keyboard. Already the process of selective memory is taking hold.

So rather than having a good whinge about heavy packs, soaked feet, and freezing temperatures, I'll just say that we had a great trip. The weather swung wildly from warm and fall-like (however briefly) to full-on snow squalls and then back again seemingly within minutes. It made for a real study in contrasts; warm and cold, wet and dry, pleasant and grim, smiles and frowns.

I think the contrast between this video and just the one photo sums up our trip pretty well.



4 comments:

  1. Looks like fun! Too bad for the weather... Did you complete the traverse? Is it worth checking out sometime??? possibly snow free!

    Not to rub it in but we were around Merritt and had quite reasonable fall weather, perfect for mountain biking.

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  2. No we definitely didn't complete the traverse. It's an interesting area and not too long of a drive, so we'll try again next year. Glad you found good weather!

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  3. You should try the Adirondacks next time....
    http://hangmanhillnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/labor-day-weekend.html

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