Last Winter

I went on a walk yesterday, but I didn't have anything particular that I thought about nor did I see anything that I wanted to take a picture of, so I decided to go to my picture log and choose something from there. I am including some pictures of the family cabin and a Scout overnight trip we made up there.

This first picture shows the bedding under the picnic table - the boys got to sleep outside and I was very surprised how well they did. I was pretty miserable myself at bed time, and I got to sleep inside the cabin.

This one shows a nice view of the front porch, indicating the amount of snow that had accumulated - note that it was a pretty light winter as far as snow fall in the area. 

This third picture illustrates the trail that we plowed to get up to the cabin. The road in was packed down by snowmobiles, but the last 200 - 300 yards was virgin snow. We had snowshoes, but it was still quite a bit of work to make it up the trail. 

Overall, I really had a fun time, but I remember that one moment when I thought "what am I doing up here int he middle of the winter, freezing cold". 

When we parked in the evening, there was a team of snow sledding dogs. In the morning when we came back, they were there as well. I talked to the driver and he said that they had gone during the night up to Evanston and back; pretty crazy.