Snow-shoeing in the Cascades

We spent today up in the Cascades snow-shoeing. We really should have done this long before now, but we hadn't got around to it before. So when we saw that the Sierra Club had a snow shoe outing Lydia borrowed some equipment and we tagged along. It took a little getting use to, but it was lots of fun and the mountains are so beautiful when they are covered in snow. The passes were all snowed in, so we just drove up to the snow line and walked along a fire assess road, buried metres beneath us. There were lots of people out enjoying the mountains, some with Huskies or children being pulled along in sleds. We hiked for a couple of hours, then went to an inn where Lydia ate her first American Apple Pie. The other really nice thing about snow-shoeing is that we got to meet a really nice couple, Alex and Sarah, who have just moved to Seattle. They are both lawyers, him for the Environmental Protection Agency and her with the Humane Society, so they are doing really wonderful work for society, and they were really fun to chat with.