"Navajo and Caravan ahead on your route are returning to Vancouver due to severe icing"

This is what we heard 1000' off of 08 right this morning coming out of Vancouver. Regency had two airplanes, a Navajo and a Caravan, also heading to Kamloops, that were flying the same route that we normally take. ATCs preferred routing from Vancouver to Kamloops takes us off the airport to intercept V300 towards Hope and then to Kamloops. Had we taken off 15 minutes or so earlier this is the route we would've taken. The V300 goes over the North shore mountains in the vicinity of Abbotsford and Chilliwack. With the very moist storm moving into BC today, the icing is no surprise. However, usually by the time we're that far inland, the severity of it is weakened. Today, that doesn't seem to be the case, and after hearing that two planes were forced back from that route, I wasn't all that keen on venturing out that way myself.

So, back to our departure. When asked what we wanted to do, my co-pilot suggested we get vectors south and climb out in the open Fraser valley.
"Yep, that'll work fine for me, lets give that a shot"
We got our turn South, towards the V342 and an intersection called YARRO, and proceeded to climb up to 13,000'. Through 11,000' we broke out on top of a layer to clear skies.
"Center, NTA301, we're leveling one three thousand, on top, with a trace to light icing in the climb, we can take a turn enroute now"
"NTA301, Cleared direct the Kamloops NDB"
"Direct the Kamloops beacon, thanks, NTA301"

Although a little behind schedule, it was daylight and VFR conditions in Kamloops, no approach required when we arrived. The trip up to Williams Lake was also pretty much done in VMC. Now we're relaxing in Williams Lake for the day, breakfast already done. A quick Pilot report check upon arrival here showed this..

UUA /OV YVR 053045/TM 1510/FL095 / TP PA31/ IC MDT-SEV MXD ICG/ RM PA31 AND C208

Doesn't sound like fun. As time goes on the Storm is supposed to push further inland, giving snow showers to the Interior of BC. The Graphic Area Forecasts, forecasting the normal moderate icing around the coast before we left this morning, now show a dark blue patch of severe icing along the North shore mountains, right to the end of the forecast period. I wonder how the Booth arrival is going to go tonight....