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In Chilliwack, the summers are warm and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, wet, and overcast. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 1 °C to 26 °C and is rarely below -6 °C or above 32 °C.

Whoever wrote the above has no idea what “very cold” means. I found it on Chilliwack Climate. I will happily take that -6C and enjoy it thoroughly. The daily (or almost daily) rain in the autumn, winter & spring will get a bit annoying, but temperatures in Winnipeg that reached -40C some days were actually dangerous more than annoying. The rains are late in arriving this year as they often start in September – but this year it is the end of October.

I have just ordered myself a rain jacket, and once that arrives, I’ll be out walking in the rain wearing my jacket and my rubber boots. I’m not sure about taking my camera out with me in the rain, but it will be nice to walk through puddles instead of snowbanks. 🙂

Yesterday, it rained in the morning and it rained in the evening, but most of the day it was very pleasant for walking and that is what I did. I headed over to the Vedder River Trail and since I haven’t been to the main parking spot there in awhile, so I decided that is where I was going to go.

In all my walks, I had only seen one fish that had been caught before and I didn’t manage to get a photo of it. On this day though, a lot of people were catching fish.

There were actually 3 people – each with fish on their lines at the same time when I took the above photo. Two of them got their fish in and I think the 3rd one got away. I don’t know which was which by the time it all ended though. So – this fish might have been the lucky one.

This is such a nice trail to walk on. As well as people walking (many with dogs), there are people running or riding bikes or pushing strollers. The path is well maintained and is good for everyone. The Vedder River is almost always in sight.

One last fisherman heading back home with his catch – as I was on my way out also.