Day Five - Snow Shoes

Dear all

Today's task was chosen for today for two reasons:

1. High activation levels after the fabulous feast of last night - Beef Tenderloin appears to do to me what most achieve from drinking 5 cans of red bull.

2. The tropical weather ( +5oC ), which continues to baffle the populous, is causing any remaining snow to rapidly disappear. Unless I travel up to the Yukon for my daily tasks... my days are numbered in pursuing any snow based activities.

As a result today my task was to find one of the last few stretches of snow on the property and go snowshoeing - a pastime much loved in Canada and much needed in many circumstances when snow gets to be more than 3 feet deep. I find the concept of strapping a large reinforced tennis racket to my feet deeply satisfying and decided that I would attach video footage of one my snow shoeing attempts to this post. To add drama to the piece I decided to run on the snow.. and as you can imagine.. it ended poorly..

I am looking forward to next winter when I intend to get out the snow shoes in mid November along with my thermals.. as opposed to mid March with my bikini.

Appendix 2: Please note in attached video I am modeling the 'fleece of joy', my favorite item of clothing that continues to be a life-saver.