Enjoying the Snow
January 18th (Saturday) It snowed last night, and it continued snowing through the day! With the wind overnight it was very hard to judge the accumulation, as there was next to nothing in the wind-blown areas, and large drifts in other areas, but we decided that it would finally be enough snow to go crazy carpeting! All of the hills that we had in mind for making a good toboggan run were a mix of gravel and larger rocks, so we were well aware of the need for enough snow to fully cover all of the rocks. After the base that had been building over the past week, and then with today’s snowfall on top, we decided it would be okay. Since we did not have our crazy carpets with us on board, we made a couple out of cardboard and heavy-duty garbage bags. Luckily we had some perfect cardboard from a box that we had brought up with us from Victoria last week. We had been intentionally saving it for just such an occasion, and so, using the cardboard for our form we put it inside o...