Monday, February 16, 2009

Bear Valley

After a mile-long snowshoe trek we arrived at the snowed-in cabin. We were excited to get cozy but the labs, Tessa and Sucio ran away so after a couple beers we went back out to look for them. It was already dark when Kevin, Kim and I returned to the cabin empty-handed. Luckily Brian found them; both ready to bed down for the night on someone else's deck!

Yari took to the snow pretty well. He was a trooper on the hike up. He wasn't so happy with the cold though, unlike Tessa and Sucio who couldn't get enough of the snow.

That night even more snow fell! The storm total was several feet!


The next day we took the short cut back to the parking lot. It was so fun to snowshoe down the steep hillside. At some points you cut just sit back and slide down.



Too much powder! The first run was exhausting and I couldn't stop falling. It would take forever to dig myself out of the powder. Thankfully the next runs were a lot more manageable. It was such an amazing feeling to have no fear snowboarding down some of these runs.



2 comments:

Jocelyn Edin said...

Wow, how cool. I am very envious of all the playtime in the big snow. Fun!

mareesespieces said...

The last time I was able to play in snow like that was with you and Jacob!