We awoke to a beautiful sunny day in Comox with a temperature of 7 degress. Hard to believe we were going skiing only a 40 min drive away, and at a hill which had just received 24 cm of new snow. We left Rob and Maureena house with green lawns and a blooming rodendrum in the neigbours yard and headed for Mount Washington. It was on the drive that the title for todays post comes from.
The following series of photos show how we drove from summer to winter all in 40 mins
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| Rododendrum in bloom |
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| view out of truck window enroute to Mount Washington |
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| 20 mins into drive |
About half way to the hill snow starts to appear in patches, then it is full ground cover, next thing you know we are looking at fresh powder.
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| Fresh snow at Mount Washington |
Once at the hill it was winter, in 40 mins we had driven from summer through fall into winter. Pretty amazing for people from Ontario to experience.
Skiing was excellent. Mount Washington is an interesting hill with a number of lifts fresh powder and the best view we have had from a ski hill. Looking to the east you can see the inside passage to the south the Comox Glacier and to the west the Island Mountain Range. Truly a spectacular site. We also saw bald eagles soar over the hill. The snow is "different" well deserving of the adjective "heavy"; a snow that took some getting use to.
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| A panarama looking north from top of hill |
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| Julie with a snow ghost |
We came down off the hill around 3:30 and got a view of the last aspect of todays title. Comox is home to a Ducks Unlimited waterfowl sanctuary, which consists of a very muddy ex farm field. The area was well populated with Swans. Swans that were orginally white in c0lour but with the mud were more "off white"
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| A flock of dirty birds |
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