My self-appointed duty was to check the outside temperature as soon as I was up and out of bed. At 6:15 am the temperature both days indicated a chilly -22 degrees celsius. Our first morning out on the trail the temperature dropped to -24 degrees by 9 am. The next morning it warmed up to -21 degrees by 9 am, and somehow that felt milder than the day before.

After all these years going to Castle Junction Hostel - something like six, or maybe more, I'm not sure - it gets a little bit more difficult to photograph anything too original. But I did manage to capture some things in a different light (pun intended), and this weekend was right for photography. During the nights it snowed at higher elevations, giving the daytime distant landscapes the impression of having been sprinkled with a heavy dose of icing sugar.

Please enjoy

randy