The first River Day celebration of the new year brought in cold weather and snow. The temps stayed in the mid to upper 20's (depending which thermometer you looked at), and we had the first Monday snowfall for the 2011-2012 winter. Jay, Ted and I made it down this week for what I think was a perfect River Day.
We all got down to the river earlier than usual since we all had the day off. We started out with overcast skies and cold. The first wave of snow came in shortly thereafter. It's always neat watching the snow moving toward you from across the mountain, and river. After the first "squall", the skies cleared up, the sun came out, and the snow that had just fallen melted away. Then we had a repeat of the first wave, a little clearing again, the the snow settled in for the rest of the evening.
Obviously to ward off the weather, we built a slightly larger-than-usual fire (or maybe not). With the wind blowing the way it was, we kept piling on the wood to make sure we had a good bed of coals. We had plenty of firewood for the task as we made a few runs along the river bank with the wheel barrow to stock up the woodpile a little.
Not much going on around the camp this week. The locals don't seem to get out as much during the winter months. Some people just don't appreciate a good River Day.
Sorry for the number of pictures this week, but a River Day like this one is worthy of recording, and sharing.
Such a great way to start the New Year!Plenty of wood which made the best fire on the river,and of course the snow coming down was a great topping!
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