I've been away this fall, so not so many updates on the deux chats, but wanted to show you some splendour from my trip to Lake O'Hara this past weekend, where we gathered to celebrate and say goodbye to our friend Brian Everest. Lots of chuckling about his trickster ways when we arrived to find a foot and a half of fresh powdery snow that had not been there the day before! It was a wonderful day.
Snow fell steadily as we set out around the lake and started up the switchbacks to Opabin Plateau. Up...
...big and small...
...happy...
...up...
...until we emerged amongst the larches, which had kindly hung on to some of their orange needles, to give us even more drama.
We arrived at Opabin Prospect to some eddying gusts of powder.
We settled in anyway, ate our lunches, and then Joanne read a beautiful poem and we told stories and laughed and cried. Tod led us through Pete Seeger's "We Shall Overcome".
The spirit was with us, if not the words.
At this point the sun started to peek through the clouds, illuminating first one peak, then another. It was like celestial powerpoint. It kept this up for the rest of the afternoon. Here is a picture of Opabin Prospect taken from back down at the lake:
And here's Wiwaxy:
It was a wonderful day.
I've been away this fall, so not so many updates on the deux chats, but wanted to show you some splendour from my trip to Lake O'Hara this past weekend, where we gathered to celebrate and say goodbye to our friend Brian Everest. Lots of chuckling about his trickster ways when we arrived to find a foot and a half of fresh powdery snow that had not been there the day before! It was a wonderful day.
Snow fell steadily as we set out around the lake and started up the switchbacks to Opabin Plateau. Up...
...big and small...
...happy...
...up...
...until we emerged amongst the larches, which had kindly hung on to some of their orange needles, to give us even more drama.
We arrived at Opabin Prospect to some eddying gusts of powder.
We settled in anyway, ate our lunches, and then Joanne read a beautiful poem and we told stories and laughed and cried. Tod led us through Pete Seeger's "We Shall Overcome".
The spirit was with us, if not the words.
At this point the sun started to peek through the clouds, illuminating first one peak, then another. It was like celestial powerpoint. It kept this up for the rest of the afternoon. Here is a picture of Opabin Prospect taken from back down at the lake:
And here's Wiwaxy:
It was a wonderful day.
1 comment:
Nice pictures - weird that it was winter at the beginning of October! xxoo
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