RAIN!

Finally - Rain! Nothing like what people down south have been getting, but Thursday brought us a glorious inch of the cold wet stuff... and whatever this flowering shrub is certainly loved it! It started blooming promptly on Friday morning! Smells great, too... I'm glad it's up near our house as a similar shrub turned into beaver food last spring.

We've had a great week. So far four groups of volunteers from the Border Route Trail Club have stayed in our bunkhouse and then gone off with their saws and cutters to work on the Border Route Trail just north of us. They've also hiked the South Lake Trail (which runs, roughly, from Rockwood Lodge to the Border Route Trail). So both trails should be in pretty good shape this year! Our last group will be here early next week. We really appreciate all the work these great volunteers do to help keep the wilderness accessible!