I was out in Alberta to meet with a consultant doing an ESA on one of our new monitoring sites near Joussard, AB. Joussard is about 30 km east of High Prairie and 80 km west of Slave Lake. It was a flight from Toronto to Calgary to meet up with a colleague and then a Dash-8 to Grande Prairie. From there is was another 3 hour drive.

The weather wasn’t cooperating with us. It snowed the first night in High Prairie, by morning it was slush and ice mix. Then it rained throughout the day, even hailing at one point. Would have preferred some sub-zero temperatures and snow. In the end the job got done. Looking north along Range Road 132 towards Lesser Slave Lake.