We did our family Christmas yesterday.. so today was bonus Christmas. I had to wake up at 3:30 in order to get Max to his 5:45 plane .it was good getting to hangout with him this morning

I went home and got a couple of hours more sleep.

I got up around 8:30 and had breakfast with Gabe and Diane.

Diane had some more of Max’s delicious home smoked salmon

We the got ready for a hike up camels hump which is getting to be a family Christmas tradition .

It was about 15F and sunny at the bottom of the Burroughs trail. We had snowshoes on but only really needed them for their crampons . There was about 2 feet of snow but it was elk packed on the trail. Believe it or not there were about 10 other cars there for hikers . It’s only2,4 miles to the top but it gets pretty steep .

Once you’re above tree line you are in gale force winds . We were fine till we hit the top. We’d read it was about a -35 degree windchill on my Mansfield which is only 10 miles away and a few 100 feet higher

We put a samstone up there

It was nice coming down and de-icing

It was a beautiful Christmas sunset on our drive homem. Here a view of my Mansfield from about A mile from home

We had a nice quick dinner of home made spring roles .. the. Gabe and i went i. To the shop and started building our new 3/4 inch propane poorer . We can probably finish it off this week . I’ll let you see

Ok . Time for sleep

Happy bOnis Christmas everybody!

Nite all, nite Sam

-me