Snow Days – A good time rest, read, reorganize, and slowly go insane will lying in a prone position.

Earlier this week the prospect of snow was a welcome break, a chance to rest and an opportunity for a change in the everyday. Now 3 days later and with the real possibility of 3 more days of snow, its getting a little old. But it does make for an interesting post and some time spent around town.

After returning to camp on Wednesday and finding much more snow than in town I took the opportunity to take what I thought were some rare pictures of the dessert covered in snow. What I didn’t know was this was just a dusting of snow. The real covering was yet to come.

Camp had changed since I had been gone. Most folks had left and one had arrived. A fire that night brought the remaining 3 of us together to talk about how quickly the sun would come out and how fast the rock would dry. This was surely a temporary event. I quietly planned my next trip to town in the event that we were wrong and the weather man was right.

Thursday did offer some sun and a chance to move around and stretch out. My two activities for the day, wood savaging at a nearby forest and setting up a tarp awning from my truck, were the highlights of my day. The awning especially made for a good challenge. When I first set it up there was no wind. Then came a wind from the west, then from the east, then the west again and this time with snow. Fortunately I had the time, patience and energy to workout a compromise that allowed me to cook and eat in the semi-dry while the evening’s entertainment brewed up. By dark the storm had built up enough that everyone, now 5 in total, retreated to their shelters.

I made some modifications the awning and turned in. It was probably around midnight that I decided to go out and take the awning down before the storm did it for me.

Dawn brought a whole new look to Indian Creek and to my truck, seven to ten inches of snow. Looks like its time to go to town, read some back issues of Climbing Magazine at the library, check e-mail, and maybe watch movie or something.