On holiday Monday Chris, Connie and I took a spin up the David Thompson Highway. Margarit stayed behind and took the girls back to Fish Lake. Chris knew of an old cabin that we wanted to hike in and check out. I don't think it was really a trappers cabin, but it was along those lines. I'm not sure if maybe it was used by some of the cowboys that used to range cattle up in this area... or perhaps it was just used by early hunters.
We had directions and after a fairly short hike we found ourselves at the cabin. It is in surprisingly good shape considering its age. Over the years many people have written or scratched their names into the log walls. Usually this sort of graffiti is rather offensive. Some of it was fairly modern... from the past decade or so. But there were many old names and dates going back as far as 100 years ago, as well as some from the 1940's and 1950's that were pretty cool.
We enjoyed the spot for a while and I took some photographs with my big camera. It was very sunny and warm on this day, and the weekend in general was the best we have had all summer so far. This year has been very cool and wet. The rain gauge at the cottage recorded over 6 inches of rain in June and nearly 4 inches more in July. I think the fact that we finally got a nice weekend was the reason that it was so busy everywhere. There were dozens of campers at every little turnout and side road all along Abraham Lake and Kootenay Plains. All of the campsites were full.
After we finished up exploring the old cabin we headed to Whirlpool Point. The river was unusually high for this time of year, a result of all the rain. We wandered around a bit and explored among all the limber pines. By mid-afternoon we had finished up our explorations and reluctantly made our way back towards the cottage.
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