Winter Delight - Kaslo Sourdough Bakery

November 27, 2006

It was time to try out our newly installed snow plow on our truck and check our water line. The snow blade worked fine but this is as far as I could go. So I drove as deep as possible and parked it. From here it was only 400 meters to our water filling station. For today, I just wanted to check out our water line across Keen Creek with our cable-
car crossing. The road had to be plowed with a bigger machine some time later, before we needed to haul water again for our bakery supply.

The small side-arm crossing is located in a heavily timbered old growth forest. Amazingly, a lot of snow had accumulated. A was a rugged place to hike through, but we had made a path with our water line that helped.

The water shed was snowed in pretty good, but the cedar tree behind it kept most of the snow load off of the building itself, and
protects it quite well.

The cable crossing over Keen Creek was snowed in heavily. There was little snow on the water line itself, which was my biggest worry. The line below, is the rope used for pulling the cable-car across. It was iced up and sagged quite a bit. The red warning cones above the water line had lots of snow on them and it is time to take a cabel-car ride.

Just started to cross the
creek to the other side,
the rope is iced up as
you can see, the water
line is ice free.

Riding the cable-car back is a joy
since it has a slight decline and it
the cable car goes home all
by itself.

After cleaning up the ice on
the rope and then taking the
snow off of the warning cones.
Now they are red again.

Sitting in the cable-car looking down and up Keen Creek. After cleaning the snow off water line and warning cones. It was getting cold on the butt with the added draft of the creek as the water rushes by below. The temperature in this narrow bottom of the valley was -20° Celcius plus the windchill factor makes is more like -25° to -30° Celcius.

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