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The
Empire Canvas Works tent on the platform. There
are those "orbs!" (just snow, man...)
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Pretty
nice with the platform. There is no bottom to the
tent, so we would be on snow otherwise.
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Shot in a time exposure,
showing the natural light from the tent and the
moon.
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Couz just before
preparing dinner on Friday night. We didn't even
start dinner until midnight.
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The new stove kept
us pretty darn sauna-like when we kept it stoked.
It was overkill for the tent size, but overkill
at cold temps is moot.
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Saturday afternoon
sunlight on a balsam fir.
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Couz outside of the
tent on Saturday afternoon.
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We were preparing
to leave on snowshoes to blaze a trail down to the
lake, about a mile away.
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The snow was nearly
waist deep, even on snowshoes. Some low drifted
areas nearly swallowed me up.
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Couz "Lewis
& Clarking" in the clearcut west of his
property line. This was the furthest he had explored
the bordering land so far.
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Couz and Tony, taking
a breather.
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We were late in the
afternoon and didn't have enough time of sunlight
to get much further than here.
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This was the direction
we were heading, keeping the sun on our left front
shoulder.
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Couz finds a nice
hole while on point, breaking trail. This depth
of snow probably even makes it work for the local
moose.
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The nearly full moon
about 30 minutes before sunset.
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The tent lit up by
the rising nearly-full moon.
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It dropped down to
-21°F on Saturday night. We had plenty of pre-cut
widow-maker wood cut down previously and we made
a nice fire.
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Ben, Couz and Tony
in a group shot with the camera on a tripod.
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Our cold-beater fire
kicking sparks towards the moon.
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Ben lit up from the
fire.
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You can see the amount
of moonlight in the left rear of this photo. It
was pretty bright.
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