One with the Blizzard

President's Day weekend...a weekend filled with drinking, games, hot-tubbing, a river, two cute dogs, friends old and new, snowshoes and a blizzard. Josh and I went up to a cabin in Gold Bar, WA at the invite of the Button's. We enjoyed a raucous time of relaxation, good conversation, and games. There were ten of us up there along with two very handsome dogs. Although I must say, the highlight of the trip was the snowshoeing adventure. Now, I've always envisioned snowshoeing as an activity that is done on gently sloped trails that meander near lakes and beautiful, snow-laden trees. Well, we got the beautiful trees, more snow than I can describe and a blizzard to boot. Now what we didn't get was the gently sloping trail. Our trail was more like a switchback up the side of a steep, wind-swept mountain. As we broke past the tree-line (that should give you a clue as to our steep trek), I was rather entranced by the view from the upper half of this mountain, even though this view was glimpsed through eyes that had to squint to keep the torrents of snow from freezing my eyeballs. It was a physical challenge that I'm glad to say I did. It was also fun to get out of my city bubble and experience the rawness that is a snowy, windy, blizzardy (there I go inventing words again) mountain side. The majority of my body hasn't experienced any soreness yet. The exception being my shoulders and head. For some reason they decided this would be the time to throw an all out rebellion like I haven't felt in a quite a while. But it was worth it. I'll take a headache for some good old fashioned exercise out in nature any day.