On a mild winter day at the end of January I decided to stomp on snowshoes into Jack Lake and back.   We can drive up the gravel road in 3 seasons to kayak the lake, but there is now a gate on the access road so no one is going in to the lake.    I checked it out a week before and there were no tracks.   When I arrived back, there was a single ski track to follow.

I used snowshoes since the snow was deep enough to make hiking more difficult.   The sun was peeking through the clouds off and on during the stomp in and back.

The ski track was gone after about 0.5 km, then I broke trail for the rest of the way up the hill, and then down to the lake.

The lake will stay frozen for the rest of the winter.   There were no human tracks on the lake, but there were some deer tracks going around some of the bays.    I snowshoed on the lake, close to the shoreline then up a small hill to get to a viewpoint.

I followed my own tracks back.     Some of the clouds lifted and the temperatures was warming up as I returned to the start.

My Jacko Lake snowshoe stomp was a total of 4.4 km, a 1.5 hour workout.    I will return in the spring to paddle the lake (in early April).

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