Snowshoeing on the last day of the first month of a new era

Hehe, I hope you enjoyed the title. Just having a little fun.

Today I went snowshoeing on Mt Spokane. I didn't know anything about the mountain, but it really is beautiful when covered in snow. I went with EPIC adventures, which is an outdoor program students can use for cheap at my uni. It was a blast. Maybe a two and a half hour hike total, up hill (both ways of course)



I had a long talk with a lot of cool people.


This is the little lodge on the mountain where we started. There were tons of cross country skiers there. It seemed like most of them were little kids, they were pretty cute.

This is the view right outside the lodge.

On the trail, it looks like something fell on a bug, haha.
The group on the path, I had to get on the side a bit to appreciate the trees, and this was a good picture opportunity


Isn't this weird? Apparently it just catches on the lichen and just sticks there.

It looks like somebody saying hi, haha. Maybe a dinosaur or something.

Such a pretty hike



If you look close at this one, you can see the big, dead tree, and next to it you see the baby tree growth. It's looking at its future.


From the summit. Wow.

Somebody made an igloo, hahaha.
It was really cool. We had a lot of fun inside.
This is a picture from where I was laying down. It was a great spot.
Epic provided a meal, and we all sat down and chatted. The couple had done some traveling in Montana, so we had a pretty good discussion about where we've been

I had a lot of this mix. It tasted really good, but mom would never believe it, haha. (I actually finished this off).


This is the victory shot. We started out at 11 am, and got back at 5 pm. What a day.


It was a great adventure, I'm definitely going to do it again, and they've got a sunset/moonlight snowshoe trip set up for the 14th (Valentines day, hmmm)
The trip leaders told me about getting a job in EPIC, and it sounds like a good gig. I'll look into it. But the guy in blue is a head man at the library, and said he would try to get me a job in the spring. We'll see how it all turns out on the job front.