John - great pics - I showed them to a coworker here, he is a kayaker, and I thought he might like to be reminded of what rivers look like when they have water in them. The drought here is getting so bad that everything is drying up. He not only liked the water, but he noticed that it is clean water - what a concept - a river running with actual clean water, not the flowing mud that passes for river water around here.
But that whole snow concept is still a bit daunting. I was thinking of driving up to, say, Fort Resolution or Yellow Knife or something, but daggone, if they have snow up there, then I am just going to have to think twice about it!