4th October- Raven Camp – SK, Points North – SK

We’ve been a bit obsessive lately checking out the weather website because it keeps telling us it is going to snow and then mother nature fails to deliver. However, this morning, there was a knock on the tent door. I opened it and there was Dan filming me seeing my first snow fall. At last it was snowing!!! It was as magical as I imagined it would be seeing my first snow fall. Small snow flakes drifting down in a cloud of white. Technically it was what is considered a flurry – a small snow shower, but it was fabulous none the less. The snowflakes sat on your clothes and in your hair. It started as a handful of flakes and then got heavier. We both stood out in the snow laughing aloud.

The snow stopped for a while and we headed over to Points North so Dan could give Brendan a hand logging as he is heading home to Australia shortly (there are a few Australians at the camp). Along the way we drove through a heavier snow drift again and stopped to shoot a video. We would post it but the link is to slow to upload the video here.

We headed back to Raven Camp late in the day and hit what is called freezing rain. When it rains and it immediately turns to ice when the rain comes into contact with anything making driving difficult when you can’t see out the windscreen!!

We stopped so Dan could have a quick fish in -2 degree weather with a windchill also. About 10 casts later he lost three lures and caught nothing but a chill.


As I write this it is -3.5 with a projected low of minus 6 tonight. The heater is struggling to produce enough heat tonight!!