My friend, Tom Pelfrey, and I pulled two sleds (snow machines) and some freight up to Lake Louise the last day of February. It was a slow and slippery trip. The roads were iced over. I got out of the truck and slipped on the ice. This was on the driving surface. It was 4 wheel drive all the way up.
The snow was fairly deep, loose and just a little mushy feeling. It was, as the old saying goes, "tough sledding."
We broke trail into Cousin Freddie's place on Lake Louise, more on this miscreant cousin later, and opened the cabin for the Spring. Freddie needed 4 one hundred pound bottles of propane for the cabin's 2 gas furnaces. We had to break trail to my place on Tom Lake to retrieve my big freight sled in order to haul the bottles. Breaking through 3 to 5 feet of loose snow between the edge of Tom Lake and up hill to my place was an onerous chore. I'm rethinking this trail and will probably follow my brushed out property line up the hill and down the ridge in order to drop down into the cabin from the west side of the property. That will be a summer project.
Tom and I were planning on going back up this weekend. I'm feeling a little tired and beat up from the last trip, so is Tom. I'm thinking of going up the weekend of 14 March instead. We need to haul up the insulated chimney and a whole lot of other "cabin stuff" which is stored under the house too.
The weekend of 21 March we will be looking for 5 of us to be at the cabin site. We will begin building the second floor and if time allows, get the rafters up too. I'm planning on 3 weekends but hope to do this in only 2. If I can get the sheeting up on the roof and put felt paper down then the place will be "dried in" and I can haul cabinets and lots of other cabin necessities up too.
