Drove around a bit on Icehouse trying to find the best place. Finally decided on 13N13. The road slopes relatively gently up and ends with an overlook to Sun Rock across a small watershed. I took a brief detour up 13N12, which eventually intersects with Cheese Camp road (?) but it was much steeper.
A truck had made ruts in the snow and a variety of walkers and snow mobiles had also gone up. The snow was firm with a few inches of fluffy new snow from last week's storm. Whoever had walked up before had probably walked up last weekend because they left deep holes. I admired their stamina because that's hard work!
We passed a fire hole with unburnt logs and two places where someone had spent some time digging a vehicle out and getting it turned around. The snowmobile tracks stopped in a cleared area and there were a variety of empty shotgun shells lying around. Who do they think will pick those up?
We crossed a small stream. Just where it crosses the trail it spreads out into quite a pool/marshy area and the previous walker had clearly gotten their boots (and probably ankles) wet. I can imagine just what they felt as they saw the pool, then discovered that the snow they were walking on was really just a deceptive cover over wet, wet water.
Soon the road takes a sharp right and now Commando and I were making the only tracks. Mr. Previous Weekend stopped and probably sat down on a stump to look over a creek down a short steep hill before heading back. At least, that's what the tracks looked like.
We kept on until we got to the summit and then headed over a saddle off the road to look out over the view. I sat on a log and ate my snacks and drank my Vitamin Water. Commando ate his snack and hunted rodents under the snow.
We headed back and were out for a total of about 3 hours.
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