solo car camping - winter is here

It just gets dark so early now that I always show up to campsites and I can't see anything because it's dark and so I have to wait till the morning to see if there's a beautiful view and sometimes I get lucky and there is a beautiful view. My hands are so cold but I need them. It's like the first real day of winter I feel like for me. No! My body needs to adjust to liking the cold again. We will get there. We get there every year. It's just always a tough start. Also you're probably going to hear some road noise. I am basically right next to a highway so I can't really help that. Best part of the day is when a warm mug can warm up my hands. Okay I'm not gonna hit that. Okay I'm gonna try one more time. There's people. I have to go anyways. I've got a hike to do so let's go before more people show up. I feel like there's a lot of people here but I also think they're probably not all doing the entire hike so hopefully the crowd thins out as the hike goes on. If the lower lakes are already mostly frozen I have a feeling the upper lakes are also going to be frozen but it should still be pretty. Canada's got jokes. Oh that looks like a place to throw rocks at a lake. As you can see other people have. That's my rock. I miss the mountains. I really haven't been that much into hiking this year. I feel like after the PCT I kind of lost my passion for it but I don't know maybe I just needed to come somewhere really pretty. To get it back because it feels really good to hike. Also I did some strength training on my knees because after the PCT my knees were also shot so maybe my knees also feel better which is helping. I drove like two hours further south and I was kind of hoping it would get a little bit warmer and I don't think that worked but it did get less snowy so we're gonna quick make some food. I literally just broke my mug so thankfully it's a pretty clean break though so I should be able to fix that. This meal is called using what is already in my car. Again sorry for the road noise. I feel like there's just gonna be a lot of road noise because once winter happens a lot of the really good campsites you can't really access anymore because they're just too remote, they're too far into the woods, they're too high of an elevation. Like there was a cabin I was gonna go to and you know six kilometers in there was snow already so you just have to kind of park closer to main roads and that's just kind of how it goes. I mean you still get like a beautiful view of the mountains you're just not as alone. I know I'm using a lot of butter. I have discovered in Canada they sell their butter like you know how well actually I don't know if you know but in the U.S. typically you can have four sticks of butter in a container or even you could they sell two packs of butter typically but they're all individually wrapped in their own little like wax seal. In Canada I've discovered I bought a thing of butter thinking it was four sticks of butter and it's just a giant block of butter in foil so I feel more stressed about using it now. I mean it's the same amount of butter it's just the way it's presented to me that is throwing me off. This is not important but it's something I've noticed. Also their cheese, they sell their cheese in weird shapes. Maybe I need to go back to the U.S. Maybe six months in Canada. Well I am coming up on six months in Canada. Guys my propane's running out. This is all the way up and it is not that high. Okay look, is it the prettiest meal? No. But you know sometimes I just don't feel like putting that much effort in sometimes especially when it's cold out and I'm still cooking outside because it's not cold enough to have to cook inside. Sometimes I just want something easy. Throw it together, use up what's in my car you know. Thankfully we also are at the season where I can put ice in my cooler and the ice stays there for like weeks because it's so cold outside. So I can have refrigerated things now more easily which is great for me. Less money spent on ice. So I checked and there's a Tim Horton nearby and they're open till 11 and I really just want a well-lit place to read. So we're gonna drive 10 minutes away and go read for however long I feel like it. I've got nothing to do.