Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Snowshoeing Vs. The Ski Lift

Today Lace and I went hiking up to Snowbird and had a great time. We decided to make it more adventurous so we went down a big snow plow hill. It was much more fun than walking to the lodge.

Here is Lace right before we threw on the snowshoes.

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After the hill we came to a rushing river that we had to cross. As I was crossing, the snow that I was on fell out from under me. It was quite humorous as I looked over my shoulder to the lodge, and we had collected an audience.

Lace was able to get across in a different place quite easily. It helps that she weighs 50 lbs less than me.P1020187

As we were hiking we came across a make shift shelter. It will be great if we ever get stranded 600 yards up gad valley…

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Within the time frame we had, we made it to the top…of a hill right next to where mid gad lets off… at the half way point (see the map below). We were quite happy we made it that far.

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We then rewarded ourselves with a wonderful ski down. 1 Hour up, and 5 minutes down. If there are any takers that want to join Lace snowshoeing during the day, give her a holler.

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We made it where the thick black line is (not the ones with the diamonds on them, those are for skiing)

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