Snowshoeing to Sadie Lake

We had more clear, cold weather than we typically do this winter.  We ended up with about 4 feet of snow.  That sounds like a lot until you remember that our big year was 37 feet and we used to always get 15 to 20 feet.  We now keep a patch of snow on the deck we call our "village white".

The boardwalk out to "The Point", one of the lodge's cabins.

We snowshoed over to the townsite where we met up with John and Jeanne.

At the townsite.

Heading up to Sadie Lake with John and Jeanne and the shadow of Jen's head.

The trail goes through the woods in places and without a lot of snow we had a lot of bushwhacking to do.

A lot of the hike goes through the muskeg--which was frozen solid under the snow.

Lunch Time!

The trail became problematic after lunch, so we decided to head back.  (The problem was that we couldn't find the trail!)

Headed downhill.

Although we couldn't find Sadie Lake, we did manage to find Baranof Lake!

Documenting our discovery.

The Baranof River (normally raging down to the waterfall) was very low and sedate!

Sunset back at the lodge!