A glorious day snow shoeing

We spent a day snow shoeing in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park with our final destination being Chester Lake. The snow shoe trail was clearly way marked all the way and snow shoers outnumbered cross country skiers. The day was relatively warm at minus 3C in the car park and there was an abundance of snow. We quickly donned our snow shoes, hats and gloves, not forgetting lunch, water and a flask of hot chocolate. Without Bill seeing Zofia had also packed a few treats for the journey.

The route took us through forestry, a winding route with a couple of step ascents. Our snow shoes have heel raising bars at the back for steep ascents and these support the heel when going up. Bill made a wise choice when we purchased our snow shoes, after much research he decided on Mountain Trail produced by a Canadian company. The snow was deep in places; in this photograph Zofia's left hand pole has gone in quite deeply but we don't think it quite reached ground level.

Once out of the forestry we saw the hills in the distance and would have missed Chester Lake completely as the trail skirted to the left, there was a sign which said no fishing, so we knew we had reached our final destination. Chester Lake was frozen and covered in white snow around it we had views of Windy Peak

and Mount Galatea. A glorious day for snow shoeing, some sun, a few flakes of snow and wonderful views.