Snowshoeing

The Monday after Christmas, some friends of ours, Mike and Stephanie, invited Nate and me to go snowshoeing with them. We were thrilled (and only slightly intimidated that they're the fittest people I've ever met and we'd been eating Christmas junk nonstop for at least two weeks straight). I had only been snowshoeing once and Nate had never been, so we were stoked. Monday morning came and we left all the kids at our house with a couple babysitters and were off. We rented some snowshoes and headed to the trailhead at the North Ogden Divide, where we attempted to push our car up into the icy parking lot and then finally just gave up and parked by the road. We met up with Stephanie's cousin Shane and headed up toward Lewis Peak. Mike and Steph packed extra snow gear, lucky for those of us who had never heard of most of it (gaiters - who knew?), and graciously hooked Nate and me up. We went about a mile up to a spot that overlooked North Ogden on one side and Eden on the other.

The hike was 100% awesome. Amazing views, great company, a little bit of snow falling, and just a new kind of beauty to take in that you don't get hiking in the summer. I couldn't pick and choose on the pictures because they're all just so pretty.