Snowshoeing!

For Christmas this year Nanny and Pappa Zinck bought Anna and Matthew both snowshoes. Alana and I also gave them to each other (talk about a typical Canadian gift, eh?. Maybe next year all will get canoe paddles ;-)

Today, while their Dad was stuck in the office, Alana, along with her sister Leah, took Matthew and Anna out to hit the trails and to try them out.

From the pictures below I would say that all had a great time!

Merry Christmas

From the Zinck family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas!

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Hike in the snow

We woke up this morning to ~ 6cm of snow on the ground, a temperature of -5C and a wind chill of about -15C.

Matthew and I decided to take advantage of this great late-fall weather to go for a hike in Stoney Swamp. With fresh snow on the ground we were hoping to work on our "tracking skills" and see if we could see any deer or rabbit tracks.

While the snow was mostly over, the wind was blowing lots of snow off the trees..brrr!


We saw 2 deer, lots of fresh deer tracks, and some squirrels, but so rabbit tracks could be seen. Perhaps the rabbits were smarter and us and were staying holed up in their dens until the weather improved.

While Matthew was not to excited to be leaving the nice warm couch and his video games for the hike, I think his true thoughts are given away with the picture below.


We were hoping to see some birds on the trail, but only saw a few crows and some geese flying over. On arriving home we did snap this picture of a very plump Cardinal on our cedars.


Tom