We woke up at Castle Lake the first morning back to heavy snow falling and about 3" already on the ground. A blessing I first thought and later experienced but there is something about wet spring snow which complicates van life. It is not just the fact that if you go out skiing and getting very wet that you have a wet inner van. There is also no source of warmth except what our hearts create. Lying around on the couch is cramped for 2 and when cabin fever wakes up we are in just such a small space.
So we finally faced up to the wet out side and went skiing. Lo and behold the skies part and the sun shines on our magnificent ski outing for great spring powder. At Castle Lake you can ski all aspects of mountains with ease. I took 2 runs before we packed up to head into town.
We've been camping most of the night by driving Dolores out of town to the west along the no. fork the Sacramento River. Beautiful Forest Service land with primitive sites. We park and walk about 200' to the roaring river and views of Mt. Shasta scraping the heavens. We have been cooking a good deal of our dinners and even some breakfasts over a fire. The nights are still cold and we sometimes add a sleeping bag to our blankets to stay cozy.
The effort we made to reconnect and plug into community life here has, in actuality, gone well. We have met a cow and the rest of the animals and people who live on a little homestead here in town. Haddie, the milking cow, is a Jersey and has 2 new friends who will be freshening soon. There are 3 goats, a kid, chickens, ducks, pigs; oh and a family of Dexter cows, who do the lawn mowing and eventually providing beef. Jacob, Shawna and their 4 children loving tend to the needs of the farmstead and make wonderful food from the harvest. Yesterday Julie and I took turns milking Haddie. Hand milking takes a while when you are out of practice. I milked the other day with Jacob in tandem. My first time team milking (Jacob sat behind Haddie, a daring position, but he is so positive about everything that even if Haddie had let lose her digested lunch, there would have been no big deal.)
We also had a nice time at the Earth Day festival last Saturday in the Mt Shasta City Park. Met lots of nice folks. Built a demo of a cob wood fired oven with Toni. Yoj told us all about the herb Horse tail and how it helps build the crystal body we are becoming as advanced beings. And various other great conversations. With all this interesting stuff to write about I am kind of shocked to say that we are not really FEELING the vibe that we are wanting. After a few moments of clarity and time to let the emotions flow we are just not digging Mt. Shasta the way we thought we would like to. (Julie's B-day (27) was on of the wildest no-so fun days we have experienced in a while.) So we let all this chill a little. We got some great advice to just be with our limbo living. And . . .
. . . we woke up to 5 inches of powder on Mt. Shasta. We both went for a great ski.
The next day we were going to go back to the mountain but Jacob invited us to go white water rafting in the spring melt water! What a fun trip down the sparkling Sacramento. We are still in limbo about our place, community and work but we are having a blast now that we just let it be!
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