altitude slickness

With the long Thanksgiving weekend bringing us up to the Seattle area, I’d brought along my pack and gear for some kind of outing. Luckily Mark was able to make it out on Saturday and we decided to go snowshoeing up at the Pass. I’d just bought a couple pairs of snowshoes on sale at REI the day before, so that coupled with all the fresh snow promised a good workout that morning. Avalanche uncertainty pointed us towards the Gold Creek area, and with our typical early morning start, we turned on the headlamps and started shuffling up the snow-covered road.

The road was pretty well-packed, so the snowshoes weren’t that helpful for the first little while. Once we hit the deeper trail though, we were glad we’d brought them along. We were only out there for four hours or so, but managed to hike ourselves silly and get some really good photos. It was a good quick outing and nice to be able to pull off considering it had been a while since I’d been out down in Vancouver.

Happy Birthday, Mark!