We had a little family outing yesterday up Hobble Creek Canyon, I took up about 8 pairs of snowshoes for the 4 of us. The area had received a couple feet of fresh light powder snow in the last few days so we decided to make a quick trip and do a little bit of snowshoeing.
I took a foam sled and drilled a hole in the front of it for a rope so we could sit Lizzie on it and pull her along. It worked pretty well, although I have a couple of modifications that will make it better. I want to fasten one of those folding stadium seats to it so Lizzie will have a seat back to lean against. The second thing is to fasten a runner to the bottom of the sled to make it track better on sloping terrain. Eventually Lizzie got cold when a brisk wind came up, so Jenni took her back to the truck.
Zach, Rebekah and I continued up the road a little further, then Zach took off into the trees on the side of the road, so we followed him up into a small canyon. We continued way up into it, taking turns breaking trail. We had such a blast. That's one of the fun things about snow hiking, you can go just about anywhere, even places that are hard to navigate in the summer due to brush and other obstacles.
On the way up Zach kept mentioning places that would be fun to make an overnight camp. Of course that's another fun thing about winter, the campsites are endless, wherever you want. There's alway plenty of snow for water, you can flatten a tent site pretty well anywhere you want, you can carve out snow furniture, it's just too much fun.
When it started getting dark we decided to head back to Jenni and Lizzie at the truck. And this is the part I just love, the downhill, running, jumping, ambling over things, it's just so much fun.
I'm going to post some videos of the trip on the Wilderness Innovation website, just click the video button.
It's great to have winter to enjoy, we have the same summer terrain all dressed up in beautiful white powder snow.
Get out and enjoy it!!
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