Snowshoeing

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Alex- that's an amazing and scary story!!! I get scared even when I look at a stuffed moose in a museum.....they're so BIG!!!

[Crankin]

I think I would have peed in my pants and fainted if I was being chased by a moose! A couple of years ago we were hiking in our neighborhood conservation trails when I heard a weird animal noise. There have been black bear sightings in Concord, mostly in the early morning, so I think this must have been on my mind, even though it was almost dusk. I ran like h*** back to the car.
Lisa, you can be assured I was not snowboarding! I used my poles to run down that mountain and it helped. It also might have been that the ascent was really steep in a very short time and I was struggling. I was happy to get down.
It's 8 AM and already 40 out!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lisa, you can be assured I was not snowboarding! I used my poles to run down that mountain and it helped. It also might have been that the ascent was really steep in a very short time and I was struggling.

Impressive!

It's 8 AM and already 40 out!!

Yes, it's 11am and 40 degrees here too! If it weren't supposed to rain I would be on my bike! Definitely tomorrow though....

EDIT: This afternoon the sun came out and i DID in fact go for a 13 mile bike ride- it was so warm and lovely! My first bike ride of the year.

[roadie gal]

Moose are scary critters! I'm glad you're OK.

We got about 3 new feet of snow at this altitude (LOTS more higher up). In order to walk the dogs this morning I had to put on my BIG snowshoes - the ones I used to wear when I weighed 20 pounds more and carried a heavy pack - in order to just walk the dogs in the morning. Of course, those smart dogs made ME break trail. Even with the big shoes I was sinking to my knees. We were only out for an hour. I'm exhausted now!

[Alex]

Now that I've completed all my internet research about moose attacks (shouldn't have done THAT right before bed ), I thought I should report on the rest of Sunday's snowshoe adventure. I LOVE my new Redfeather Strider snowshoes. They are perfect and light and a very pretty blue. Previously, I rented the Denali Ascents and I really needed to widen my stance with those. With the Striders, I can walk almost normally.

At certain points, it was snowing and blowing so hard that our tracks disappeared almost as soon as we made them. Amazing!

Alex

[Alex]

Robyn,

If I thought there was a bear, I'd have set a new land speed record!


Lisa,

Glad you had a great ride!


Roadie Gal,

If we didn't shovel pathways in the backyard for our dogs, they would need snowshoes, too!


Alex

[Jolt]

We got another decent snowstorm last night/this morning (probably about 8 or 10 inches here; I didn't measure so that's a guesstimate) so I decided to snowshoe this afternoon at the same place I did last time. I was surprised and rather disappointed to find already a well-broken trail (boy does this place get a lot of traffic!), but once I reached the brook crossing I noticed that the trail beyond it had not been broken. This is probably because said brook crossing was a little tricky given the recent thaw and resulting lack of thick ice--it was a matter of carefully stepping/jumping from rock to rock. Once I got across, the shoeing became more of a workout which is what I was looking for. I also felt like less of a klutz this time!