Hiking with Heather: Sweetheart of a Weekend

We're enjoyng a 3-day weekend to celebrate Alan's 50th birthday! I wish we had planned something more special for such a milestone but with the crazy weather we've been slammed with these past two weeks, there wasn't much time for planning anything.

Yesterday we went road-tripping to do some antique and second-hand shopping around our area. The dogs came along for the boring car ride, but unfortunately we didn't do anything too fun with them.

So I decided to take the kiddos snow-shoeing today to enjoy the beautiful sunshine and fresh new snow. Alan had to bow out for this excursion so we went just the three of us.

The roads are in great shape now that the plow trucks have had time to clear them. The trails, on the other hand, have not been blazed yet. I should have known when we arrived to the parking area for the trailhead and it was empty.

There was one zig-zagging snow shoe trail someone had left, but it didn't really go anywhere and by the time the dogs and I made it to our actual trailhead, we were totally exhausted from trekking through the extremely deep snow.

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I laughed out loud at how the depth of the snow completely swallowed up the dogs when they climbed the snow mountain at the end of the parking lot and disappeared on the other side.

Look at them run!

I struggled up with my snow shoes on and then was as buried as the dogs were on the other side. After some photos and romping around, it became apparent that we weren't going to make it too much farther so we headed back to the parking area.

I have a feeling a lot of people will be out today packing down other trails for us, so tomorrow we're going to head out really early before anyone else and enjoy some quiet time at one of our favorite places.