First snowshoe of the season!

There's been snow on the moutains since November, but we finally made it out yesterday to test the slope. Unfortunately, it wasn't the wonderful powder we like to snowshoe in (due to a thaw, followed by rain and a freeze), but it was still great to be outside for a few hours. We headed up Mount Seymour, one of the few remaining snowshoe sites open on the north shore. The Olympics have already started to bugger our lives up by closing a bunch of routes from December 1 to March 1 for "security reasons". How did they know we were planning to hike in and camp out for two months before the actual event??

Anyway, here are some photos from the day.

It was all clouds below us, so we couldn't see Vancouver at all. In fact, what started out as fog never burned off, so we were glad to be up in the sunny moutains.

Maggie enjoyed herself too. It was quite warm in the sunshine, so she wasn't at all cold and hardly cried at all when we stopped for lunch! This is a great picture of her :)

Remi's new "engagement SLR".

The climb up to our lunch spot. It's usually quite windy when we get to this point of the trail, but it wasn't yesterday, so we could be comfortable for a time up on the exposed hill. Look at that blue sky!

Mountains peaking through the rising clouds. We decided to leave before we became engulfed too!

Again, life above the clouds with Vancouver far below (okay, not too far - these are little-ish mountains).

We hope to get a lot more snowshoeing in this year than last year with our reduced course load - maybe we can actually enjoy the winter!!

Wishing everyone the happiest holidays from beautiful BC!

Sarah