What is an achievement without some proof that you’ve actually achieved the goal? I’m often asked to take photos with all sorts of cameras. Being a traditional look-through-the-viewfinder kind of DSLR user, I often have to be shown how to use the latest in P&S gadget that is handed to me. How embarassing? 🙂 In this instance, another snowshoer, Gene, got the honors of being the ‘official’ photographer and I got to be the onlooker. What a relief! With this three, I think that it was Bonnie who was the novice on skiis and Emilie and Gabriel were her ‘guides’. How come it is always the novice on the waxless skiis who gets asked the question “What kind of wax are you using today?”
We decided that Adell would have to head off back down the hill if she was to get back to the lodge on time for an appointment. The trail to the summit had not been used recently but after discussing what the trail might be like with Mike and borrowing his poles to help with getting up the steeper parts, I set off along the trail to the summit, happy to be breaking trail rather than following along a well traveled pathway. Although I like to be ‘alone’ on a trail, I am also very happy when I know that someone else is following in my footsteps just in case I do something foolish like getting stuck in a hole cased by those long-legged beasts, the moose.
The trail itself was steep in places and then leveled off. Not very many clear spots for photographing the surrounding countryside but other mountain terrain and valleys could be seen from time to time.
