Today was probably the warmest day of the spring yet. Warm and sunny, it was incredibly nice to be outdoors. The snow is very slushy at the moment so you foot sinks through even when following snowmobile tracks, but I was ok on snowshoes – for the most part, anyway. But it got me thinking, if we now get temperatures below freezing, the crust will be awesome! Anyway, not a hint of freeze today. I had packed coffee and cookies in the camera bag and headed to the Eagle Mountain wind shelter and then just sat in the sun, sipping the coffee and enjoying the view.

On the way back, I didn’t want to take the shortest way home. I was feeling so good that I just took the first best tracks I could find and followed them, didn’t care where they were leading.

Now this is truly what they call the fifth season. If there’s anything that could’ve been better, then I wish I had been in the mountains. But that day will come…