Leon Turnbull Photography

After my long snowshoe hike into Bassi Falls, I trudged down the road from my car to the bridge, and slipped on down to the creek to get a shot of half frozen Bassi Creek surrounded by winter snowy goodness.

I was dead dog tired after my snowshoe. I think snowshoeing 4 miles is about equivalent to hiking 12 miles … or something like that. With the snow being kinda soft and squishy (as opposed to being hard and easy going), it makes snowshoeing much more difficult. Even though it was all downhill coming back from the falls, I was trudging along very slowly and quite spent by the time I got back.

I was also quite worried about the snow. It was falling very heavily on the hike back to the car, and I was worried that the road conditions had deteriorated considerably, and it would be rather difficult driving back down Ice House Rd. Well, I had no worries in that regard, as it turned out. There wasn’t that much snow on my car or the road when I got back. Not only that, a snow plow had just gone by clearing the way for me, less than a minute before I got to the car.

But finding the energy to get down to Bassi Creek for this photograph was a different matter. I went slowly. But I did it. And it was beautiful.