What an adventure I had today. I woke up this morning to a beautiful day outside so I decided to get my exercise snowshoeing instead of working out on the Wii. I decided to snowshoe the nature trail that goes around White Birch Lake. I was going to snowshoe to the old boat landing and then walk the lake back. Well best laid plans do not always work out the way we expect them to. At first the trail was very easy to follow, especially since I had coyote tracks to follow.

So on I continued, but found I lost the nature trail very quickly.

I wasn't too sure this was the trail but I ventured ahead anyway!

It was starting to look like I had lost the trail completely.

 I spent a lot of time going up and down ridges trying to find the nature trail, but no luck. If you were to follow my tracks you would think I was making video for America Funniest Home Videos!!! But it was a beuatiful day with beautiful sights like the one below.

 I finally came upon the sink hole and realized I was on the wrong side of it! The nature trail was all the way on the other side and up the ridge. So it was off to find Hwy K and walk the road to the old boat landing. Iwas determined to make it to the lake!

The Sink hole...very pretty even if I should have been on the other side!

Well with perseverance and 1 1/2 hours later I made it to the old boat landing and crossed the lake back to the resort. You won’t want to follow my route if you take the nature trail. What a workout!

I finally made it to the lake. Yeah!!

John went ice fishing on Ballard. Serenity before sundown and some nice fish. We had a great meal for supper that night!

Fishing as the sun was setting.

Perch and bluegill were biting.

On January 10th 13 children from Church of the Pines had a retreat here at White Birch Village. They spent the day playing games and sledding. It was great having the voices of children around the resort again! Enjoy the pictures!

Mad game of ping pong!

Rocking the resort with Hero Band

Sledding Fun!

Look out below!

Taking it easy in the snow.

Finding new uses for one of our roads on the property.

Snow removal is part of daily life at the resort in the winter. The plow, snowblower, shovel  and John get a workout all season long!

SLEDDING FUN!

The nieces enjoy sledding down the hill by Cattail and Heron Haus.

They both decided that the first hill wasn’t steep enough so tried their luck on the driveway by the start of the nature trail, but……………..

found out that the snow bank at the bottom of the driveway had different plans for them!

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