Another Day On The Slopes

We started off and only took to skiing for about an hour before Dawn’s inability to take the hills led me to a decision. It was time for a new sport!

Unfortunately, I hadn’t brought my snowshoes with so Dawn and I both ended up renting snowshoes and trekking all over the mountain. They and snowshoe tracks leading around and we were out for about 4 hours going up and then down the mountain.
Since it was time change on Saturday, we had supposedly changed out clocks to reflect this. So, after looking at Dawn’s watch and determining that we had time, we left the bottom of the hill on our snowshoes to go up to the top to where “The Cabin” is. Its up at about 2500 feet and so we hiked all the way up to have some hot chocolate and sit by the fire for a half an hour or so. We knew that that The Cabin closed at 3:30 so we got up there around 3ish. When we got there, the guy who manned the cabin was working on his skis and the food counter was all closed down. Guy working on skis barely said two words to us and there was no one else up there. The weather was a little nasty so the lack of people didn’t surprise us. We were a little offended that Cabin guy barely said anything to us, but we were ok just sitting by the fire for a few minutes and then strapping the shoes back on and heading back down the hill.

Once again – Dawn is a trooper! She’s a widow, has four kids and works some at their school. She’s a busy lady and she works out when she can but she doesn’t have the time that I do to good around and run and all. Needless to say, she had never skied or snowshoed and she wasn’t quite where I am physically (no offense at all Dawn!), but she was awesome! She was right on my tail almost the whole way and she was in for anything. She followed me to the top with no complaints and she came down without whining or acting like she was dying. She is a trooper!
The end of our mountain treck brought us back down to the ski shack to return our snowshoes which, God’s timing is perfect, and we came up to the shack right when the manager was pulling out. She stopped and asked if we needed to get in – and that’s when we found out that Dawn had not changed her watch as we had thought. It was actually an hour ahead of her watch time. When we had gone up to the Cabin, it was actually closed! Poor Cabin guy didn’t even say anything to us even though he had closed a half an hour before. What a nice guy!