Terrible at this.

Man, I really slacked off on this blog lately.
My trip to Guatemala was wonderful. Tikal was breathtaking, the beach in Panama hot, and the randomness of the last weekend indescribable. I had a fantastic time with Cailan, and cannot wait until we reunite at her next teaching gig in.... Egypt!!
Returned to Canada and dove into spring with a lot of outdoors outings, skiing, hiking, more recently paddling and camping. Quick trips to Edmonton, Twin Falls and Hay River. Summing it up in this past weekend's trip back to Pensive Lake.

This year four of us returned to do the Pensive Lake Wilderness Tour that we did over Canada Day last year. Jocelyne and Julian came last year, Graham was new and the plan was to meet Daniel and Blair who were there last year too on Cameron and all descend the river together the last day. Turns out portaging in one go is a thousand times more productive than not. Jocelyne and I carried all the gear, and the boys carried the canoes.
We did the first leg, and camped at the same location as last year... about six hours faster. Ditto with the second day. The weather was fabulous, like last year, minus the headwinds.
We leisurely paddled all afternoon Saturday, passing last years camping and heading down to Lower Pensive Lake to meet Daniel, Blair, Graham and Andrew.

Sunday morning we headed back down Cameron, which I was nervous for, but I felt a lot better knowing that I'd have the choice of paddling with Joce or Julian, who have some idea what they're doing. We were totally successful this run down. There were a couple little delays in the rapids, but the water was so much lower, that they were not as intimidating.
All in all, great weekend in the sun! Cannot wait till next camping trip! Where I hopefully will be much more diligent at reporting.