Finally Made it to Sicamous!!

Sicamous

We checked the road report, packed everything we could possibly need (and some extras) and loaded in the car to try to go see Paul's brother, Jason and his partner, Jen in Sicamous.  We had great road and awesome weather, but when we hit Golden we were super surprised to find the highway to Revelstoke closed  - again.  It had been closed down since 2:30 that afternoon, so thankfully we had left late and only ended up waiting for about two and half hours before they reopened it at 8:30.  I found it a bit nerve racking to be driving at night with heavy truck traffic on the road, but at least the roads were mostly dry with only a few wet spots.  Definitely made a long trip feel even longer though!

 Cam and Jen

It was really good to spend some time with Jason and Jen since we had not seen each other since early this past  December.  The trip was also a really need break and a chance just to have some quality down time.

 

We made sure to bring our Cross Country skis with us, and decided to check out the Larch Hills Nordic Center which is just 30 or so minutes south of Sicamous.  The first day we did a awesome 7 km loop with an exciting downhill section at the end. We were stoked by the area's good vibes; lots of big Larch and Ceder trees, neat single track ungroomed trails winding all over the place and beautiful scenery.  It reminded us a lot of skiing at Mt. Washington and that brought back many good feelings. 

 Paul (rocking wild hair) out skiing

 Cam enjoying the outdoors - he is so great out skiing; he typically just falls asleep. This time though he was alert and happy, gurgling and cooing to himself for all but the last bit of trip when he finally did nod off.

 The next day we went back for more skiing adventures, but this time we brought Jen with us. 

 We did a bit of a longer loop (10km?) which snaked about the area and though some amazing boggy spots where the forest opened up and took a single track short cut that felt like we were following tracks into the backcountry.

 A boggy clearing in the forest

 It was Jen's first time cross country skiing in a long time and it was really fun having her along!

 

 Cam exploring in the log cabin that is the ski area's "Nordic center".  A really awesome little building with the same community center feel that the Dawn Mountain Nordic Center had.

  Baby!

Driving!!

This was actually taken on the way home when, once again, we found the highway closed because of an accident.   At first they told us that it would be at least and hour and a half and because we were in a high avalanche area we couldn't leave the car.  Thankfully, we were not stopped for long - after about 20 min they managed to pull the four wrecked vehicles off to one side and let the traffic sitting in high risk spots thru.  The rest of the drive went flawlessly and Paul got me to work with 20 min to spare!

Daddy looking concerned 

 Naked!