I was saying to my daughter Erin earlier in the day that we need a snow storm--8 hours of blinding heavy snow--lots of wind. The winter has been tame and I was missing the snowstorms that as a kid kept me in awe and sometimes out of school.
In the evening when the wind picked-up I suggested a snow shoe hike. John and his two friends Connor and Keenan were up for the adventure. We headed to my favourite in town snow shoe hike just south of Duchesnay Falls.
I wasn't sure how dark it would be on the trail. The terrain is in a ravine and I didn't think that there would be any light source on the trip. However the city lights illuminating the cloud cover created a perfect low level light condition for us. We brought a headlap and flashlights but they were not needed. Our eyes adjusted quickly to the low level light conditions and we are able to enjoy the hike with our own natural night vision.
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| The moonlight helps illuminate the bridge in the distance. |
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The way the weather has been this year I wasn't really expecting deep snow, in fact we thought about not bringing our snowshoes. Good thing we did. The snow was deep, fluffy, and slippery.
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| The girders of a mysterious bridge. |
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| A view of the Regioanl Health Centre from across the highway. |
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The picture below was taken underneath the bridge (there are three) closest to Lake Nipissing. The boys all commented on the view. It was a scene from somewhere else (imaginations ran wild)--the arctic maybe--a dark mysterious place.
The boys worked up an appetite during the hike, so on the way home we picked-up a large pizza--it lasted about 6 minutes.
We passed a couple of snowplows on the way home--the most dangerous things we saw all trip.
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