This past New Years we were lucky enough to be invited to a friends cabin. There cabin was at Sheridan Lake which is in the southern Caribou district of B.C. For my Australian family that is about 4.5 hours north east of Chilliwack. Having on been as far North as Cache Creek I assumed the area would look like that, kind of sparse for trees and a little desert like. Also, since Kim used to live in Quesnel I pictured a stinky area as she said it always smells of the saw mills; boy was I wrong. The area was full of trees at at just under 1200 meters above sea level it was also super cold. The whole area was picture perfect and just so much fun to sit and look at the scenery. I cannot describe how awesome the area was. As someone who has spent the majority of their life on the coast and only spent "holiday time" in the interior during the summer I had no idea how awesome winter can be in B.C. when a chair lift is not present. Our gracious hosts had built an ice rink on the lake by plowing away the snow and it was something else to see the kids ice skating outside on a lake - the whole thing was very Canadian and that was perfect by us. I got to go ice fishing for the first time and I suck at that as much as I do at normal fishing - i.e. I didn't catch anything - but sitting on a lake surrounded by the scenery is what it was all about.
