Friday, October 05, 2018 Awoke to a light snow and bitterly cold morning. Got up for breakfast, and coffee and retreated to the warmth of my sleeping bag and read e few chapters of Sigurd. Next thing I know I woke up and it was lunch time. Got up and ate lunch and thought I would have a go at some hiking. But once I got 100-200 yards from camp It was a very thick tangle of new growth birch, aspens and pine so after attempting in a couple different directions I gave up that idea. Still being bitterly cold I retreated again to the tent for some more reading and listened to the radio a bit. Came out of my cocoon in late afternoon, cut and split more wood than I will need and stacked a pile for the next guy under a tree. Sat on the rock and watched the beavers hauling small aspens back to the lodge and made supper. Had a very nice fire in the evening and then retreated again to the warmth of the tent and my sleeping bag. Got the itch to push on. Forecast for tomorrow is wind and some rain. I hope it holds off long enough to get off Alpine.