tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45922456980258084072012-02-16T12:34:35.611-07:005 kids, 4 adults, 3 dogs, 2 cats, 1 year. My family and another are leaving daily life behind as we know it to go live in the B.C. wilderness and enjoy life instead of watching it pass by.Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-48752783265368387122010-06-11T10:03:00.002-06:002010-06-11T10:05:32.260-06:00

This is probably my last entry from here, we are packing up and taking down our internet set up any day now.  We have been trying to enjoy every last minute that we have left and the last few days have definitely been enjoyable.  Some good friends of ours from back home came up a few days ago and we have enjoyed showing them around.  I think that they enjoyed their visit too.  This weekend there

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Before I forget, I want to send everyone another thank you for all the letters, photos, emails, cards, gifts and goodies for the kids that was sent to us while we were here.  I never expected most of them, a few were specific requests that we had asked for.  So thank you to those of you who did the running around for us in town too. Whether it was a needed item for a science project, or a part

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Yes, it is on our minds.  And little by little we are getting ready to leave.  I say little, because we are doing it pretty slowly and very reluctantly.  We knew this time would come, but it came so fast.  Paul's work requires that we head back towards the middle of June, so we are starting to think about getting back into that mode.  Remembering our cell numbers, pin numbers and just getting

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We had a good downpour for a while last night and then a steady rain for the rest of the night, our first for the spring.  It was so relaxing to sleep to the sound of rain on a tin roof.  This morning the air was damp and calm.  I could hear the roar of Olson creek across the lake, and as I went to town for mail, you could see the effects of the rain on each swollen creek and river we came too. 

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The lake went from this ... To this over night Here is the mountain that we climbed as a family, when I proved that "Nanny" is not my middle name. Us today, after a picnic supper at Palm Beach

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All lot has happened since I last wrote.  First off, we drove our trucks out of here on May 1st.  It took us going out the afternoon before, to break the trail through the snow up to Lover's Leap, or the summit on the trail we take to town.  That afternoon took quite a lot of pushing and pulling by both trucks and people, but we made it to the high point in about 4 hours and decided to call it a

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Yep, we figured "What the Heck", let's give it a go, and it was a blast.  There were a few spots that still had a lot of snow and we had to do a little pushing, but with chains on the tires we made it to the trucks in pretty decent time.  The snow was actually quite wet and dropped as soon as you came into contact with it.  Our travelling the trail will only help for the next time, especially the

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I think that it is safe to say that spring has made it here.  We have been having quite nice +10 ish temperatures and the odd snow flurry but otherwise beautiful spring weather.  Paul and I took the quads out on Thursday to check how the road out was for travelling, other than with a sled.  We had all decided to opt out of the last mail day, thinking that we would give the trail another week to

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I have put over 2000 kms on my sled now, and it would be safe to say that the kids have logged that many kilometers too.  Anywhere that I went so did they, and we are not driving out of here with trucks yet, so they will log on even more.  We are at the in between stage that we figured would happen.  Where the quads get stuck on the breaking up trail, the sleds could easily still travel, but

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-51926119127633169152010-04-11T12:21:00.000-06:002010-04-11T12:21:52.993-06:00

On Friday Paul took a trip aross the lake to climb a mountain that we have admired all year.  He took the sled as far as he could and then he made the rest of the way on foot.  Being a little too much for the kids to tackle, we stayed back and watched with the spotting scope.  One thing that we didn't see that he did was the view and a Mountain Goat.  We are hoping that as the snow melts, we will

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If you will, let me go back about 4 weeks and catch up on what we've been up to around here.  In the later part of March Paul, the kids and I went out to Prince George to bring in the remainder of the furs that we have for sale this trapping season.  We had a few other errands to run and some "fun" time planned for the kids at the area swimming pools. On our drive out there we got to experience

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On Good Friday my parents came in for a visit over this long weekend.  The weather had been very snowy with quite low cloud cover and yesterday was no different.  At lunch it started to break and Sasha spotted some dark figures on the ice across the lake.  We all went scrambling for cameras. binoculars and spotting scopes, all the while trying to be as quiet as we could, so that we did not scare

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-42067877451273520372010-03-31T23:33:00.001-06:002010-04-04T16:31:55.286-06:00

While on a trip up to what we call the top of the mountain, Paul and I with Monique(his sister), Tarron, Graycen, Aron and Delaney and took a few pics. Paul on his sled After a trip to the top, Paul took the boys up there too.

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Out here we do not have cell service, but ingenuity we do.  Paul's parents, sister and her kids came out for a visit for a few days and we have had a great time visiting.  The kids decided to send a message to their dad via Northern Texting Service... see message below We sure do wish he was here.

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Just yesterday we headed out to our trail head for a "Block Party" weiner roast with some of the people from the valley.  The plus temperatures that we have been having are nice but they are also playing havoc with our plans to go out to the valley.  So yesterday we met our friends at the trail head, where we connect to the main road.  We have made a fire pit there for lunch stops on mail day and

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The last couple of weeks in February myself and the kids had a chance to go on the trapline with Paul.  Our beautiful weather gave us an excellant opportunity to see the areas that he was trapping this year.  The first trip we made, we went with him to the "Top of the Mountain Trail" and we couldn't have picked a better day. The sky was about as blue as a sky can get and as you can see the sun

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We got our first visitors from home Wednesday and the kids were soooo excited to see faces that they knew from back home come all this way to our neck of the woods.  We had a quick visit from my uncle back in December, and that was equally exciting, but this time the visitors were able to stay.  Four friends and relatives of ours and Tim and Martina came in to go sledding with Tim and Paul.  We

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-85257863838588282882010-02-23T21:42:00.001-07:002010-02-23T21:44:35.144-07:00

These are the 2 drags Paul has built for him and Tim to pull behind their sleds.  The "Drag Queens", make the trails smooth like highways.  Here is the Teeter Totter These 2 benches for around the campfire were made from a curved tree hanging out over a bank.  Pretty nice work.

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Well I have offically put 1200 kms on my sled so far this year, and Paul is over 4500 kms on his.  Paul's higher numbers are due to the trapline days, when he goes out checking and I stay home with the kids.  We, along with the friends from the valley, finally punched through the trail we were working on and have used it already a few times in the past few weeks.  It was a lot of hard work but

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-88305366516596213072010-02-03T21:40:00.000-07:002010-02-03T21:40:38.612-07:00

Our weather here has been very nice since the new year, ranging from -15 to -8 at night and ranging from -8 to 0 during the days.  It has been very overcast with the clouds hanging low on the mountains, in fact there are some mountains that we have not seen the tops of for many days.  We wish that if it was going to be so cloudy that at least we would get some snow to go with it, but not so.  We 

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There are a few things we have been asked a lot lately, the first being "Have we seen the caribou yet?".  The answer is no, not yet.  Apparently they actually don't come around here until later on, more like the end of February or beginning of March.  Not December as the parks guy told us last fall.  Yeah, I know, we thought he would have been a reliable source too.  We have been waiting

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After a successful trip out on Boxing Day and returning the first week of January, we are getting settled again and unpacking all the goods.  We also all came back with a cold which was to be expected, though I must say it was nice that none of us has had a single sniffle up until now. We also came back to a huge turn in the weather.  Tim and Martina mentioned that it did not warm up past -16,

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-36958540950128921822009-12-12T12:05:00.000-07:002009-12-12T12:05:42.832-07:00

Well the tree is up and is it ever big! Probably 8.5 feet tall, way taller than our tree at home would ever be.  You know how it goes though, what looks small in the bush is huge in the house, luckily we have a loft only over the back half of the cabin and there is plenty on room for the tree.  The kids and I have been making decorations and will start to decorate as soon as the tree stops

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Today was just awesome.  After a good morning doing school work with Sasha and not arguing with her during the process, Martina and I completed the last steps of our wine, (12 more days and we can bottle it, Yahoo!)  Then we had our lunch and went out to skate on our newly formed rink.  The lake ice is thickening up fast now that our weather has taken a bit of a colder turn.  Our coldest we have

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-42940567456461561742009-12-07T22:26:00.002-07:002009-12-07T22:26:34.674-07:00

Almost Frozen

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The lake pretty much frozen over.

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Sunrise in Oct

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I know, I know, I'm not doing my blog enough.  For someone who is supposed to have all the time in the world I am finding it hard to find time for this.  One reason is that my computer time is limited and busy.  And it seems that we are always doing something else.  Martina and I were just saying to each other that we never thought that we would be so busy out here, we brought ourselves a lot of

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Thats how long we've been in without a trip to the outside.  It's the longest amount of time that we have spent out here, previously it had been 2 weeks.  How is it so far?  Is it what we expected?  What are we thinking now? Well so far it is going good, we have had execptional weather, have met some great people and we are spending a lot of time together as a family.  We are doing pretty much

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This week we had a few visitors and I must say that I definitely look forward to them, even if they only pull into the yard for a few minutes.  I guess it makes me feel more like home and not a visitor here myself. Our first was not actually a visitor, but more like a roaming neighbor.  The guys came back from a day of checking beaver traps and had seen tracks from a very large grizzly.  He came

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-28682986302171889972009-10-19T11:56:00.000-06:002009-10-19T11:56:46.906-06:00

The weather here has still been fall like, rainy, sunny and still only a little cool.  We took advantage of the nice weather and went quadding yesterday.  We took a logging road just a few kilometers past our driveway, the map told us that it should loop around the Gebhardt arm of Germansen Lake and that it did, taking us up in elevation and giving us the oportunity to see the Germansen range

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-22247033065549907612009-10-12T21:42:00.000-06:002009-10-12T21:42:20.179-06:00

Well the trapping season is officially upon us in BC, with the fall Beaver now open.  Paul and Tim met up with Larry a few weeks back, the man whose line they are signing up to trap on.  With the freeze up of the lake and creeks fast approaching, the guys wanted to start trapping them asap.  So far so good, they have had a few beaver in their traps from the lake.  Today they went out and set 10

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-76556427261746917072009-10-08T15:15:00.002-06:002009-10-08T15:15:33.573-06:00

We returned on Saturday from our first trip out.  We had planned on doing it this weekend, but a family funeral moved it up a bit.  Our initial trip planned was for gathering last minute supplies before winter, stuff we simply forgot or the things that we just didn't bring enough of.  When we returned we came home to snow, not lots but some ground was covered.  Then a few days after our return

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-42917329579914651382009-09-20T17:33:00.000-06:002009-09-20T17:33:30.608-06:00

 Every morning and night since we've been here, we've heard a loon on the lake in front of our cabins.  I can't help but wonder when we won't hear the loon anymore, because the weather has told her its time to move on with her young.  This morning we woke up to 1.5 celcius.  The weather is damp and cool.  We half expect the rain to turn to sleat and then snow one day.  It will probably come and

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-48261476125236124432009-09-18T11:50:00.001-06:002009-09-18T11:50:55.686-06:00

Well our time has been well spent here so far, we have been busy getting things operatinal in the cabin.   One is the running water, not warm but running.  There is a spring that we are tapped into and this feeds our cabin and hopefully T & M's too.  It is so nice to turn on a tap and have something there.  Another convenience that we did not think we would have, is electricity in the cabin. 

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Well we made it in one week ago and it has been very busy .  We spent the first few days unpacking and doing a little more cleaning and painting in the cabin.  Paul's mom and dad came out the day after us and have been busy helping out too.  After a few days we had to stop ourselves and remember that we have quite a lot of time for that sort of thing and we should enjoy the nice weather outside.

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As I am waist high in boxes and headaches in my house, I can't help but think about Tim, Martina and the kids, who are already at our destination. I so wish we were there picking berries and getting settled, instead of going through my house and wondering if I need this item or that. The kids keep asking how much longer, as no doubt this has been dragging out for them too. Everything has to fit

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129977038727453322noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592245698025808407.post-75379601327929910822009-08-26T15:05:00.000-06:002009-08-26T15:09:55.818-06:00

OMG there is so much to do. Our goal was to leave by the long weekend, now Paul has been delayed at work. I know it will all come together, eventually. We are just so anxious to be there!!

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Well, I have had to say my first goodbye, or rather see you later. None the less, it was not easy. I've told people that I don't want to see tears when we leave, because we are so excited about the trip, that we want to leave on a good note, not a sad one. And then there I was holding back tears. What a suck. I think this is the hardest part, is saying see you later to some people that are part

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I've had a few people ask me that. One even said "besides watch the clock go tick, tick, tick." We have lots of things on the to do list, and want to do list. We have a lot of clean up in and around the cabins, they have been left for quite a while. We have fire wood for the winter to put up. We have to unpack and get settled. The want to do list includes: going on a quadding trip to a nearby (

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I thought that I would have posted more info by now, but man is it busy for us right now. The summer's are usually busy and this definitely adds to it. I have been buying lots of groceries, dry goods and canned, that sort of thing and packing it up. We want to bring as much in as we can, even though we do have groceries available to us at the Germansen Lake store. We can put in grocery orders

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We decided to do it about 7 months ago. Do what? Well, we decided to go live for approximately one year in the bush. Ourselves, (Paul, me, and the kids) will be living in a cabin on a lake in North Central British Columbia. We know about this area because we have a gold claim there thanks to our friends and partners on the claim, Tim and Martina H. Last summer we spoke about possibly doing this,

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