Morning Ride to Palisade

Snowshoe Sunday - Wicked Pro

Sunday we went snowshoeing again up on the Mesa, and it was rad! We packed a lunch and a bottle of champagne and headed on up where it was 30 and extremely sunny.

Kelly making fresh tracks in the snow.
Hiking along. It was much easier going since the snow had melted just a little and so our snowshoes actually did what they were supposed to do and stayed on the snow, not in it.

Thats me! Its not really as far as it looks. Scale and depth are really hard to judge when everything is coated in snow. So 'we're gonna hike over there' turns into 'oh thats not very far at all' or 'Lets just stop here'.

Lunch. Ramen mixed with beef and veggy soup and washed down with cheap champagne. Delicious!!!

We set up the MSR Hubba Hubba with just the footprint and the rainfly, and it was more wonderful than a unicorn under a rainbow, or close anyway.

Im a reindeer!! Merry almost Christmas.

The sun started going down so we started to head on back.

I make this picture...

Heading back down to town. (That totally looks like the CRV but isnt, thanks random person driving down at the same time we were)

Sunday Road Trip

This morning we packed up and headed out to the mesa to go hike Crags Crest. It turns out we should have brought snowshoes because there was about 2 feet of snow on the ground.

So we got out and wandered around for a little bit.

Waaaay off in the distance to the East you can see the Rocky Mountains.

We ended up driving all the way over the mesa and ended up in Delta and had lunch a Hoolies, a nice little townie sports bar. We watched the Bronco's lose again and headed back to GJ.

Before we went home, we swung by the monument to do squeeze in a hike since it was warm out. It turns out you may get creeped on if you use the bathroom outside the Serpent's Trailhead.

Pointing out the geology of the area ( REDLANDS FAULT!!!! GET EXCITED!!!)

Schweet frozen waterfall and icicle. It was 54 degrees out but I guess this thing hid from the sun in its little crevice. Super Awesome.