Walking on Snow!

Brandon and I, while in Grande Prairie last Saturday, bought snow shoes! It’s something we’ve been interested in taking up all winter, but only just invested in. Since the nearest ski hill is 2 hours away in good conditions, our snowboards have been collecting dust for the last couple of winters. Snow shoes seemed like the perfect remedy. And are they ever!!

We’ve only gone twice. The first time was on Sunday. We went to the golf course since we knew it wouldn’t be challenging, and there’s plenty of open space for us to figure it out. We spent an hour getting into the groove and found that we both enjoy it immensely. The only downside was that we forgot to bring the camera(all the pictures you see are from today’s outing).

 

Unfortunately, we have had a severe lack of snowing. I don’t think it’s snowed at all for the past month and a half. At the most we find areas that are a couple of inches deep, but mostly it’s all hard and icy. Not the nicest conditions, but at least the sky has been clear and sunny!

All the same, we’ve gotten a couple of great workouts into the last couple of days and despite being a little sore, have no intention of giving it a break. It’s not often that we’re this excited about exercising, in fact hiking used to be one of the very few things that we looked forward to. So it makes perfect sense that hiking on snow makes has us just as excited.

The editor at my new job used to be a tourism boss man of sorts, and he also happens to snow shoe. Before I left work today he mentioned that if we aren’t sure where to go, we should try some of the local creek beds. It turned out to be a great idea! Of course areas such as the one pictured above tend to freak me out a bit…unlike Brandon who gets close enough to take these kinds of pictures. All the same, we’re going to try going up the same creek tomorrow, but in the opposite direction.

Other than spending time outside, we cleaned downstairs, got a Costco membership, and watched Thor and Iron Man(so excited for the Avengers movie!!). While it’s not super cold outside, it still gets dark sooner than we’d like and as such wind up ready for bed around 8pm every night. As thrilled as we are with our new hobby, we’re very much ready for spring and being able to spend time in our new yard.