Today we heard a plane fly over and we stopped work

We hadn't heard a plane in a month. Would it land??? Was it a Beaver or a Piper Cub...???? you can't help but wonder. But it just kept flying high....We never even saw the plane. .......the last time a plane was here was at the end of September and then we were out making trail and we missed our visitor.

We've been out trapping and making trail each day and so when we get home there is not too much energy to do too much typing. But we keep promising ourselves that we will take 2 days off!!!

A trapline day Nov 13, 2008

We've been up since 7 am for two hours of coffee, talking, planning and listening to the XM radio. Then have porridge, and I make sandwiches for lunch and thermos of coffee while Bryan gets the skidoos and sled ready. We head out at 10 am. At the first set there is a nice Marten.
Something has been here at this set. All that remains is a little Marten fur and no tracks in the snow.
At this set we caught the Marten stealer, a Lynx. Here he also ate a Marten before getting caught in a snare.
A New Moose Rub on a 5" tree beside our trail.
The Fourth Marten makes it a real good day.
The fifth Marten and Hannah is real happy
So we push the trail another 2 to 3 hundred feet. It's harder work now because of the 2' of snow.
We leave for home as it gets dark...it takes about 40 minutes and we are home good and tired...After supper Bryan has to start skinning. He will finish the Marten and Lynx the next day.

The Merganser Gang left two weeks ago

Nov 12, 2008.. All the many types of ducks, swans, mergansers, sand pipers and scoots have gone. Just one lone Loon here yesterday. Saw it circling round and round the lake getting altitude so it might have left also. For the winter we have two Ravens, lots of Canadian Jays, Bauld Headed Eagles, woodpeckers and snow birds. Out on trail at lower altitudes we see Mountain Chickadees. Our lake is at 565 meters above sea level and we are approx. 100km from the Pacific Ocean.

Yesterday open today iced over

November 13 the lake was frozen over. The exact same day as last year.

On the 12th of November the winds had beaten back the ice and we had water for one more day but that night the winds were still and so on the 13 it was all frozen