Boulder #2
Mike: So how late you planning on sleeping in tomorrow?
Zan: Until I bloody well get bedsores!
Mike: So about 7am then?!
Mike & Zan:
(This post is a little late but such is life. Check out the comments sections of the last post for answers to your comments.)
Lesson #8: Don't eat yellow snow.
Looking out our window to the snow capped mountains we could not resist taking a wander through them. Deciding to be educated hikers we approached the local park ranger asking for suggestions for walks. Armed with the name of a mountain, a newspaper clipping of a map and 'training packs' we were prepared to take on the Rockies. After a few hours of strolling through icy mud with a slight layer of brown and sometime pristine white snow we took a little traveled side trail to 'Bear Peak.' Somewhere in our conversation with the ranger he must have assumed that we knew something about hiking in the snow and what snow cloud actually looked like. As we parted ways with the locals on their mid afternoon autumn run we began a step ascent up a mountain with a two feet of snow covering the path. Where there was not snow there was a thick layer of slick ice. We got three quarters up and it began to snow. Between the two of us we can count on one hand how many times we have seen it snow and still have fingers to spare. Needless to say we decided to give Bear Peak a miss and head back to the safety of town. We discovered that the descending a snow/ice covered mountain is harder that it looks. But improvising a toboggan is extremely fun.
Zan: Until I bloody well get bedsores!
Mike: So about 7am then?!
Mike & Zan:
(This post is a little late but such is life. Check out the comments sections of the last post for answers to your comments.)
Lesson #8: Don't eat yellow snow.
Looking out our window to the snow capped mountains we could not resist taking a wander through them. Deciding to be educated hikers we approached the local park ranger asking for suggestions for walks. Armed with the name of a mountain, a newspaper clipping of a map and 'training packs' we were prepared to take on the Rockies. After a few hours of strolling through icy mud with a slight layer of brown and sometime pristine white snow we took a little traveled side trail to 'Bear Peak.' Somewhere in our conversation with the ranger he must have assumed that we knew something about hiking in the snow and what snow cloud actually looked like. As we parted ways with the locals on their mid afternoon autumn run we began a step ascent up a mountain with a two feet of snow covering the path. Where there was not snow there was a thick layer of slick ice. We got three quarters up and it began to snow. Between the two of us we can count on one hand how many times we have seen it snow and still have fingers to spare. Needless to say we decided to give Bear Peak a miss and head back to the safety of town. We discovered that the descending a snow/ice covered mountain is harder that it looks. But improvising a toboggan is extremely fun.
posted by Mike & Zan :-) | 3:33 am
2 Comments:
glad to hear you both havent frozen to death yet!!!
miss ya both and thanks for the postcard :)
ps did u actually see yellow snow?!?
On the 2002 (?) Apre Ski CD there is a song called 'dont eat yellow snow'
- Apre ski being german (I think) for skiing from pub to pub. ahh that explains it lol
Makes for an interesting video clip though.
Speaking of Apre Ski, if u see the 2006 CD in Europe I'll send money :D
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