This is about my day on the Merry-Go-Round trail. I’ve found some archival material talking about the trail’s development and on the names of the various challenging hills. I’ll share that soon.
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Told you that the snow was hard packed or even icy on Hogo-Pogo!
Perfect day for skiing though!
While it’s good policy to blame one’s equipment (or in this case the snow conditions) my tumbles had nothing to do with that, the snow conditions were delightful though quite fast; the fault was all mine. I think I was distracted by fiddling with my head camera and GPS so wasn’t quite focused enough and found “little dipper” surprisingly steep (it seemed to fall away beneath me). That shook my self confidence a wee bit and lead me to the other crashes.
“Hogo-Pogo” sounds like a great name, it sort of evokes a pogo stick for those up and down hills near Lac Bourgeois. But this detail from a 1929 map shows it was the up and down coils of a sea monster (maybe living in the lake) that was being suggested by these hills being called “Ogopogo.”
Too funny!
I thought that you were going to take out that last tree.
cheers,
c.
Actually it was a trap set by the beavers I think. The trail turns left but those pesky rodents had felled a tree that made the corner impossible to cut close. Swinging wide pointed me straight at that last tree, so I sat down rather than get into an argument with it.
Good thing too, because just under the snow was a beaver sharpened pike set there to impale the victim.
I didn’t check but I’m sure that under the snow there must be the bones of other skiers who skewered themselves and then were eaten by the carnivorous beavers.
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