This weekend a group of us had planned to drive up to Lake Mountain for a positive snow experience. Our plans went out the window when the coldest weather in eleven years descended upon the Victorian Rangers and lasted over three days. Lake Mountain which does not have serious skiing and only toboggining became closed to the public! We would have had to hire chains for our car wheels if we had been permitted to drive up there, but the Police put up a road block at Marysville mainly due to the danger of falling trees. Already a car had been crushed on the first day of the blizzard and a passenger killed. A lot of traffic had to turn back like us. We backtracked to a place down the road called Narbathong. We found that others had the same idea as us, and like them we made it work. We did not get to the record breaking metre thick snow at Lake Mountain and instead we had fun with 5 cm thick snow. At least our long drive wasn't a total waste of time. Peter also enjoyed the subtle tones of the forest trees with the cold mist and tried to capture this elusive magic yet again alternatively with iPhone and camera.
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