Weekend family fun

A weekend at Mosquito creek Youth Hostel came with a little adventure for Heather and Finlay. The Hostel is set quite a way from the road and there is no vehicle access to the cabin. So we parked up and had to sled our equipment and food down trench pathways as tall as Finlay. Another added adventure was the lack of indoor toilets and we had to use out door toilets into a hole in the ground.. I was already aware of this before our stay and aware of potential temperatures of -20, I had acquired some useful equipment curtsy of Canmore hospital !

Heave ho!!!!

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Nearly lost the kids!!!!

The entrance to the cabin.

Anyone for marshmallows!!!!!!

The following day after a late night of socialising and excitement we decided to go for a snow shoe in the valley. It has been a few years since James and I have gone snow shoeing, infact I think the last time was with Auntie Helen when Heather was 9 months old .

This time we carried the kids in the back packs and went looking for animal tracks. We found Lynx tracks and hare tracks close together so I wonder if something had a good meal!! WE stopped to have a picnic and enjoyed the sunshine and the scenery in the company of a raven sitting squawking at the top of a tree ready for us to depart to then fly down to peck at the crumbs left behind as we trampled away.