FLCC> Monday night snowshoe outing

[Mark Rishniw]

What was really amazing was to see Maria and Scott's new daughter out 
there gorge diving!

At 12:46 PM 2/20/2007, Glenn Swan wrote:
>         I could hardly believe it ! At 5:00 yesterday there was a 
> virtual traffic
>jam in my driveway as a small army arrived for the weekly outing on
>snowshoes. In all, we had 18 people and 9 dogs !  Some of the ski trails
>were quickly packed down, almost wide enough to skate (more than wide
>enough to do classical with room on the sides for planting ski poles) but
>the group was not going to be content with a simple walk in the woods on
>flat trails, so we floated on down toward route 366 for a little "gorge
>diving".  There were more than a couple of incredulous gasps as the first
>people just walked off the edge of a small precipice and rode an avalanche
>down to the bottom of the gorge. A few minutes later everyone was down
>there and some thought it was a joke that Mike Ullberg started climbing the
>wall on the other side, but it quickly became clear that the route was
>going to be straight up the wall. With some pushing and pulling and lots of
>general shouted support (not to mention more than a little laughter) we got
>everybody up the impossibly steep wall (with snowshoes on) and then marched
>back up the hill toward home. It works kind of like a pace line, where the
>strongest migrate toward the front and break trail in the deep snow. As
>they tire, they drop to the rear and others move forward and set the pace.
>Some just sat in near the back and enjoyed relatively easy (and that's
>definitely a relative term) conditions. It's a great equalizer. By the time
>we got home I think everyone was more than pleasantly tired. There were a
>lot of dogs who slept pretty well last night too.
>
>         Thanks to all who showed !  Hearing so many conversations 
> and so much
>laughter outdoors really makes my day.
>
>Until next week,
>
>Glenn Swan
>
>
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