Nakusp

Nakusp. I like saying the word.

Kelowna to Nakusp on the map does not look very far, but it took me most of the day to get here. Tonight, I pulled up a Topographical Map of this area and had a good laugh. Lots of tight circles stacked on top of each other. The roads were snowy and icy through the mountains, last night it must have snowed 15 cm, so there was a thick white mound of snow covering each of the pines. The first section of road outside of Vernon/Coldwater I felt like I was in a Stetson Cologne meets Ford Truck commercial. Rolling hills, sprawling ranches, horses, cows, snow. Very quickly it turned in to the quintessential winter driving scene from a 'this is why you need Blizak tires commercial'. Twisty mountain road, frozen lakes on one side below a 20metre drop and rocky cliff on the other. Spectacular! Took the ferry from Needles to Fauquler (spelled wrong I will correct tomorrow). Almost stayed at the Nakusp Hotsprings...but it is threatening to snow and I did not want to get stuck there. Its a 12 km drive up a valley road. So I am in a hotel that specialized in winter helliskiing packages instead (poor me:)). Most of the staff ski/board, so it was like spending the evening with long lost family. Looking forward to a few days at Shames when I get back to PR. Off to dream of music and snow.

Oh...from top to bottom the photos in the last post are:
Fountain in Osoyoos at -5c
Storage Locker in Vancouver - The higher the space the cheaper!
Car Accident Damage to my Vanagaon - Does not look that bad does it?
Snow in Osoyoos - My first snowfall with Big Red
Rain from a distance - Outside of Osoyoos 1 month ago - Fingers of God

Nite'
Sall