Snowshoeing - Freshwater Bay

We enjoyed yesterday's excursion so much we decided to hit the trails again today. So once again we packed our gear into the car and headed to the trail head. Unfortunately we missed it, we stopped at the wrong spot. There was a skidoo trail there which we started down but it didn't go very far. So, after much snowshoeing in circles and head scratching we managed to figure out where we went wrong. This left us with two options: we could head back to the car and drive to the proper spot, or, since we now knew where we were and where we wanted to be, we could just make our own trail across country till we met up with the path to Freshwater Bay. Naturally we went with the second option. There was nice fresh snow to tromp through, and the terrain was fairly open making for pretty easy going. There were a few patches of denser forest which we were able to work our way around. Then we came to the cliff. The sensible thing to do might have been to turn around, but we were having such a wonderful time and the cliff wasn't really that steep we decided to keep on going. So after a fun slide down the slope we were back trekking cross country. It wasn't long before the few patches of dense forest had become the norm and we were forced to do some serious bushwhacking.

You can see Tracey making her way through the forest in the picture above. The terrain here had actually opened up nicely and wasn't as steep as other sections, it made for nice snowshoeing. I wish I had some pictures of the more extreme portions of our adventure but well I kinda had other things on my mind at the time.

After our time spent getting to know the native flora, we finally made our way to the trail with the help of a local moose who had left a trail for us to follow. We unfortunately didn't get to meet the moose and offer out thanks, but that may be for the best as Mya and the moose may not have got along well together.

We finally arrived on the trail to Freshwater Bay, we could see the ocean ahead of us, and many other travelers had been down the trail leaving it well packed down, you didn't really need snowshoes for the rest of the trip to the bay. There were still obstacles ahead of us before reaching the bay. After successfully running the gauntlet of the forest, the trees made one last ditched effort to thwart us from our goal.

But we would not be thwarted, it managed to pass the tree blocking the path and complete our journey to

We took a little break down by the ocean, had our sandwiches and tried to light a little fire. After some valiant efforts we gave up on trying to light a fire, next time we will take matches with us. So after posing for our group shot (which we forgot to do yesterday) we headed back up the trail.

We followed the trail back to the road then took the short walk down the road to the car. We had had enough adventure for one day and I think Mya was getting tired. Thus ended our 3 hour, 6.25km adventure.