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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

I Wouldn't Have Traded This Day For Anything!!!!!

You could hear it in our voices and see it in our faces..... today we should reach that little lake behind these two hills.  After hitting a dead end last year and giving up with long faces!!!!! then studying the topo maps and confirming a route  with a flight in our friend Guy's Super Cub....  we resumed this year.      Now with 15 days of hard labour and 12 km of trail making we are just about at Pocket Lake.  (only 4 1/2 km by crow from last years dead end.                                                                                                             
Lake is at elevation 522 meters (1600 ft) totally incirculed by white caps Mountains 6,000 to 7,000 ft tall.  It is a small lake about 60 acres  (1/2 km x 1/3 km) .  After having a celebration lunch Bryan snowshoed 3/4 km and came back all smiles.  Tomorrow we start cutting the trail S. E. to the Sutlahine River which is 6 km away.  The reason he is smiling is it is all open, clear sailing...I mean skidooing for long ways without trees or alders.
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  1. Meandering MichaelFebruary 24, 2010 at 8:37 PM

    Congratulations!

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  2. Matt, Kara, Hunter and CavanFebruary 24, 2010 at 8:53 PM

    To gorgeous for words!!

    And check out the littlest trappers of the Yukon:

    http://wenttofaro.blogspot.com/2010/02/checking-traplines.html

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  3. Bryan and VikkiFebruary 24, 2010 at 10:22 PM

    Thanks Michael....you would have enjoyed the trip...

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  4. Bryan and VikkiFebruary 24, 2010 at 10:29 PM

    Thanks kara, looks like everyone had a great time in the great outdoors..

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  5. ClareFebruary 25, 2010 at 8:26 AM

    Congratulations.

    I was trying to figure out just what the heck you were cooking over the fire (besides weiners) on the second last picture. Then I realized those were your mitts.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 10:18 AM

    that looks like a good reward for all your hard work. besides fishing i'm guessing that the area will provide more trap opportunities.would like to be able to see a virgin untouched lake like that that. good job ken

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  7. Bryan and VikkiFebruary 25, 2010 at 12:23 PM

    Hello Clare....thanks. The weiners were a treat. We only have 1 pkg and were saving them...
    I went to your blog and it is great. Good job. I will try to check in with it more often.

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  8. Bryan and VikkiFebruary 25, 2010 at 12:31 PM

    Hi Ken.... we have no way of getting to this lake in the summer. It is not the distance , it is the obsticules. There is 3 feet to 6 feet of fallen trees, Alder and willows so thick a rabbit is the only thing that can get thru. then instead of skidooing across the 15 Beaver ponds you would have to hike around each one. It might take a fit person a week...carrying a gun, because of the bears. This lake is the gateway into the south end of our trapline.

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  9. BrianFebruary 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM

    Hey Bryan&Vikki
    I'm very happy that the end is in sight that is hard
    work well done :)Brian(:

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  10. jozienFebruary 25, 2010 at 10:10 PM

    Totally glorious!!!
    (you keep me longing for what i love so much, it's just these days...i do other things...:)

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