Bush Trip: Part 2

We had a few beautiful days while out there.  Cold too, -32 F was the lowest temp we saw.

Looking downstream.  All that overflow water has frozen up nicely.

The upstream part of the snowbridge.

Looking upstream.  The visual difference in the snow in the foreground is where the overflow water was.  The smooth part on the right was snow/ice that was completely covered in water, but the textured part was where the overflow water saturated the snow but didn't cover it.

The rocky knobs behind Andrew is a cool structure downstream from where we were based, but it is one that Andrew has looked at quite a bit and wanted to get up on top of.  We decided to take one day and break a trail from the river through the trees up to the base of the rocky area, then go back on a different day and get to the top of it.  As is turned out, we had success the first day but not the second day. 

This was the day that we were trying to get back down to the rocky knob.  We were traveling the river trail by ourselves and were checking out one of the snow bridges.  It appeared that the river had flowed over the snowbridge since we'd last crossed it, and we wanted to make sure it was still strong enough for the machine.

Turns out it was.

Very cool cascading ice fall with water flowing over it.

Behind Andrew is the rocky knob that we were trying to get to.  Not the big peak, but the smaller rocky one in front of it. 

This is what turned us around....overflow covering the trail.  Mostly frozen already but not completely.  Andrew is checking the ice above.  We thought it was safe, but we ended up busting through and riding through eight inches of water. 

More ice feathers

This was the trough we made.  We didn't think it would be a good idea to park the machine  for several hours after, because it might freeze solidly in place after getting so wet, so this is where we turned around and headed back to the cabin.  It took us quite a while to get the machine cleaned up when we got it back.  It had ice all over it.

Morning light

The open water is freezing up nicely in front of the cabin.

Off to get some more water.

Oh no, the spring is frozen over for the first time that they have ever seen (in the 16 yrs. they've used it).

We took a walk up river one afternoon.

Andrew being Andrew :)

Looking back downstream

I like the little ice chunk on top of the big ice chunk.

The river is about two feet deep here.

Ice fall on the river bank.

Tossing rocks trying to break ice.

This is looking up the creek that we snowshoed up the first day.