Winter Wandering Day 2

Today we woke up and it said it was -8C, but it didn’t look too windy outside. I had planned to take the cable cars up the mountain and then walk to the lynx enclosure there, but when I looked online to see what time they feed them (to make sure we would see them) it was canceled for today!

We are staying at the end of a road and after this place there is a short little path up to a walking path. We saw people heading up there yesterday so I looked to see if there was anything fun that away. Well I found a rock out crop about 3.5km away and thought okay we can try and walk over there. It is freezing so we might not go the whole way, but once it gets too cold we will head back…I really thought we wouldn’t be out that long only it didn’t get too cold! I had to take off my layers as I was way too warm with them on and even stopping for break I didn’t freeze. I was surprised as it said it was -7 when we were out and there was some wind, but it was fine. Definitely cold as we couldn’t keep our hands outside our mittens for long when we were stopped, and the inside of my rain jacket (my outer layer) got sweaty apparently and then the sweat froze so when I took it off there was a thin layer of ice inside! But we were both warm enough and had a nice long lunch break enjoying the views over the area (the second to last photo is where we ate lunch). The rocks were fun, but super windy so we didn’t stay on top long. There were definitely more people out and about today, one kid sledding and a cross country skier and a few hikers. It was a lot of fun. And for most of the way you could see out over the area which was really nice. Next time we will have to explore this area more!Read more