Well, yesterday was very interesting! As I was tree planting, it began to slowly drizzle into a slow snow fall. At each bag-up of trees, I had to make it a bit quicker because the longer you sat, the colder you got. It was a very interesting situation. I had to wear all my raingear on top of my hoodie and underarmor just to stay warm enough and that wasn't even quite enough until I was going hard planting trees. Getting back to camp, the snowfall began to pick up pace and before we knew it, there was snow everywhere! I know, right at the beginning of summer! It was crazy and so I did all I could to stay warm that night.
I looked at my tent and it was definitely much too cold to stay in that night, so I began to look at other options that would be warmer. So, I got my sleeping bag, headlamp, and MP3 Player (which I later lost on the way over to the Dry Bus). I had to first take down the tarp that was originally suspended over my tent to protect me from rainfall. My tent was flexing so much that if I hadn't taken the tarp down, my tent would have most likely collapsed.
This is just a picture of me before I headed off to bed in the Dry Bus.
The Dry Bus is called that precisely because it is used for drying clothes and the like. It has a giant heater in the back and so I thought it would be a great idea to just set up my sleeping bag in there for the night and try to stay warm. Unfortunately, the heater ran low on fuel and so it wasn't keeping up its regular heating cycle and so I had to wake up a few times during the night to turn it on manually to warm up again. I survived though and it was a very unique situation. We'll see if I do it again tonight, lol!
This is what it looked like inside the Dry Bus when I slept there last night. There were wet clothes drying around me all night. Surprisingly, the stench wasn't too bad, lol. It was a very unique situation, one that most people never get to experience.
This is the snowman that Danny, one of my co-workers, made. We originally had a smaller snowman, but he felt that we needed to do it justice and make a proper sized snowman instead, so we ended up with a 5 ft tall snowman! I had to document this to prove how much snow we had up here in Grande Prairie yesterday, lol.
This is the logging road beside our camp. You also can see 2 vehicles and the outhouse in this picture.
This is the vehicles as seen in the morning. The roadway largely stayed full of mud, melting all the snow that fell on it. The van seen there is the one I usually ride in to work each morning. This place definitely has some good scenery! I love taking pictures of all the trees. God certainly is good at His artwork!
Now, the snow is melting away and I can see green again. The weather changes so swiftly here some times. Well, that's it for another day of blogging.
God bless!
Richard
