More snowshoeing fun! This last weekend we went to the Mountaineer's Steven's Pass lodge for two nights. It is an amazingly cozy place with a fireplace, coco, games, books and magazines. It is a very communal family style place and they serve two huge meals of breakfast and dinner. Our chore was to do Sat. night dishes and vacuum before leaving. They also had ping pong, which I loved! The only down side was the couples dorm was in the eves of the roof and the temp was in the 30s, so we nearly froze to death Fri, and Sat. was only a little better. Like winter camping.

The snowshoeing was gorgeous! The best yet I think. The snow was soft and fluffy. Our Sat. hike was through light snow all day. We hiked a steep hill to a lake through the forest. Our friend from Brazil had never seen snow before Friday night--pretty amazing first snow experience. We bounded down the hills through the powder all the way back.

Sun. we hiked from the lodge along a road up into more open mountains. We saw about 6 back country snowboarders dropping down a 1,000 foot wall of snow, some landing after 30-60 foot free falls off rock cliffs. It was pretty amazing to watch. We then hiked up the hill ourselves for a beautiful view of surrounding mountains. All in all it makes me want to go out every weekend.