Oh yeah, by way of diluting the massive geek-quotient of that last post (why do I feel it’s necessary to do so?) I should mention that my snowshoe trip up to the Elfin lake shelter on Paul ridge went well. At the top the snow was four Es deeeep and beautiful, like sifted icing sugar. Hard going whenever I lost the trail. But some backcountry skiers had broken laid a track the day before and I met a fellow xmas snowshoer at the shelter (which is huge and has gas lanterns by the way – neat) with whom to rotate trail breaking on the way back down so it wasn’t too bad. An amazing landscape, I can’t remember when I’ve seen so much snow, and I’ve seen a lot of snow. And when the clouds cleared, the view down was amazing. The light on the snow and the trees was gorgeous, when there was light, which wasn’t often unfortunately. Good trip.