Fluffy Kittens and Embroidery: Ladies that lunch

A very short entry as it is essentially an excuse to put up a selection of pretty pictures. In an extremely extravagant moment Jo, Ella and I decided to make use of a brief weather window and head over to the hut at Maiviken for lunch. Yes, it was a Thursday so we were theoretically meant to be working, but in our defence we had just had a couple of weeks of grey miserableness and been confined to base by an excessively high avalanche risk after some impressive snowfall. Armed with snowshoes and soup we headed off into the hills. This was my first attempt at using snowshoes and I was dubious about their usefulness to say the least. As is so often the case I was entirely wrong to doubt them. They turned out to be an excellent means of travel and I only tripped over my own feet once which is probably far better than I'd have managed on skis. The going was a bit tough on the way over as we were the first people to be heading this way for a while and thus a trail had to be broken. As can probably be seen from the pictures this didn't really matter at all as it was an absolutely stunning day and all effort was entirely worthwhile. Once we reached the hut and Jo had sorted out the tea and soup we decided that was quite enough exertion for one day and spent the next two hours sitting in the sun doing basically nothing. The trip back was far easier as we could follow our excellently broken trail and we were soon heading down the hill to base and a delicious meal of spaghetti carbonara.