Wild Women of the Woods

Unfortunately, the road in to Red River still isn't quite passable.  We tried it again today, just because I'm chomping at the bit to get in there and get the spring cleaning started.  I brought Mom with me this time for her first trip back to Camp in about ten years.

I wasn't going to try the last mile of the road without more gear than we had, so we stopped in the same place as Sunday's trip and pulled out the snowshoes, even though it doesn't look like there's a lot of snow left in this picture. 

Closer to Camp, there's still a foot to eighteen inches of snow on the road.  It's starting to soften a lot, even compared to Sunday, so it should go pretty quickly from here on out.

The ice on the pond is starting to darken up as well, so it should start breaking up in the next few days, and the pond should be open by next week.  It started raining while we were there, which will get it melting faster. We spent a few hours just looking around- it was Mom's first look at the new lodge and all of the renovations we've done on the cabins.  (I think she likes our new benches, too!)

On our way back to the car, we stopped at the Pushineer bridge.  Pushineer is also starting to clear, and Red River is still running high.  One of these days, I'll get over to Deboullie to see what the larger ponds look like.

Back at the car, we were as wet as drowned rats, but what a fun day.  I'll try the road again in a couple of days.