Saturday we hiked Mt. Si with the fabulous Climb for Clean Air hiking team. We all made it to the top in just over 2 hours with 25-30 pound packs. We started at the beginning of the trail with a downpour, at the top of the mountain it was snowing!
Katie in the snow, soaking the last bit of the cold and snow before spring comes full swing.
Here is the gang at the top. Not much a view but a great workout for sure.
After the hike we had a delicious lunch with some of the team at North Bend Bar and Grill. The best part of this experience is making new friends!
On Sunday we went to Mt Stevens Pass Ski Mountain. The ski resort is closed for the season but not for the Mountaineers! We got to play on the mountain all day practicing glissading and ice axe arrests. We did ice axe arrests from glissading. We practiced ice axe arrests from the position of sliding down the hill head first on our stomachs. Just when we got comfortable with all that we slid down the hill head first stomach up, with an ice axe arrest before we got to the bottom of the hill. The day was awesome, super sunny, nice and warm, wet snow but we never got cold, fabulous. The absolutely best part of the day was that we are now confident with our ice axe, we know what to do with it, we know why we carry it!
Proof of the sunny day. So much better than 24 hours ago!
All smiles! How can we not be. We are using our gear, we know what do with an ice axe and its sunny!
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