My husband and I went in to the cabin last weekend. It's the first time we've been in since last fall, and we decided to see if we could get the snow to slide off the roof. I'll put it right out there that we weren't successful getting it to slide, but we tried awfully hard.
It's been a relatively warm winter in our region, so the trailhead looked more like it does in late March.
Plenty of snow at the higher elevations, though.
It was a really pretty day to be driving in...relatively warm, especially inside the rhino, and just gorgeous views. I was in the slow-poke rhino, while my husband and Evan were on snowmobiles, skimming past me and leaving me in the dust, so to speak.
The trail was in great condition, largely because it's being groomed all the way in, which hasn't happened in the past. The places where there have been snow slides don't exist any more because the slides get pushed to the side by some very large piece of equipment. That would have solved my inadvertent trip into the creek all those years ago, but not necessarily the avalanche that happened right in front of me more recently. I'm finding the older I get, the more anxious I am about traveling in the winter, but if I don't have to traverse up and over tall, uneven, A-frame snow slides, that might help ratchet down the apprehension.
True love is a husband who brings snowshoes right to me so I don't get stranded in the snow on the walk from the driveway to the cabin.
It appears we weren't the only ones making trails around the cabin. These are coyote tracks and they were all over the place.
Later in the day, Evan's boys made the trip in for an overnighter. This was on the way out later Saturday, and it's a little hard to see, but both Roger and Quincy were totally asleep despite the noise of the rhino motor. This time my husband drove the rhino and I was on a snowmobile.
We made it back to the trailhead just as the sun was going down. Don't we live in a beautiful world? And even though we didn't accomplish the goal of getting the snow to slide off the roof so I can get my kitchen cupboards open further than 4 inches, it was good to spend some time in the woods.
It was a fun trip!
Posted by: Eye guy | February 28, 2020 at 07:27 AM
Looks like a beauty trip! I love the look of the snow and in the sunset. Beautiful ride.
Posted by: AP Man | March 03, 2020 at 05:10 PM