Snowshoe Adventure

With school back in the saddle, Celeste and I thought we would take our last Saturday of freedom and do something fun with it. We did. With our faithful friends Evan and Katie Stoker by our side, we snowshoed through the wilderness of Logan Canyon.

For those of you out there wondering if it would be worth the time and effort, let me just say that snowshoeing is a fun little activity. But you've got to make it fun. I think I would bore myself out of snowshoeing if I wasn't able to pretend I was in a James Bond movie from time to time. And during this trip, we found that jumping off of large boulders and small cliff ledges can be an enjoyable activity as well and made for a good time.

If jumping off stuff isn't really your thing (I can just see my mother now, tumbling to her death on my bad advice), bring a camera. We actually moved rather slowly because I had to stop every few minutes to capture a moment, a skyline, or puma. The scenery ready to be immortalized is worth it by itself.

For an extra good time, bring a dog. Dogs turn an ordinary winter hike into an Arctic adventure. We saw 5 dogs on the trails. 5 dogs. Just about everyone up there had a faithful companion except for us. And why? Because those people knew well that dogs make life better.