Darn icy roads!

Failed in our attempt to ski Callaghan Saturday. As the road narrowed in the canyon north of Squamish the highway became a parking lot. The compacted snow that fell Friday had turned to ice with the heavy rain…not even snow tires would help if a tire couldn’t contact the pavement. We even passed a snow plow/de-icer that was stuck on one of the hills. So after 20 min. not moving on the highway we turned around with many others. Bit of a puzzlement how the highways folks didn’t have the roads open…the weather forecast was bang on so this wasn’t a surprise. Whistler businesses should be pissed with the city folks, this is their peak season and they had many potential customers not able to reach them due to the roads not being cleared. So after 3.5 hours of driving all I got was a sore back. Had planned to try going back to Callaghan Sunday but after recovering on the couch for a few hours I decided my back shouldn’t sit in the car for that long again so soon. Late afternoon I decided something needed done to salvage something from the day, was feeling like I’d accomplished nothing and the forecast for Sunday was looking like crap, rain and strong winds. Hmmm, so I decided to go skiing Saturday evening, figuring the trails would have quieted down since most would have skied during daylight hours. Katja got home from here paddle  at the Cove just before 5, so I jumped in the car and headed to the hill. I knocked off 3.5 hours of classic skiing, covering 47.9 km at an average of 13.4 km/h. I felt much better about my day and about being back on track in my preparations for the Cariboo Marathon in 2 weeks time.

In racing news, Canada’s Devon Kershaw finished 3rd in Sunday’s World Cup event in Estonia, a 15 km individual start classic ski race on an apparently grueling hilly course.

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