Cynthia and I decided to go on a hike on saturday. Our original plan was to hike up the lions but mother nature forced us to choose another safer route. So I decided we should check out Crown Mountain on top and behind Grouse. I was still excited as I had never been up there and love checking out new places. Before we left I figured we would hit snow at some point so we packed some gaitors, gloves and toques....we figured we wouldn't need snowshoes just yet...our surprise was to come. Cynthia has this fabulous tourism pass so we decided since we were going to hike all the way to Crown we could take the free ride up the Gondola to save some time as daylight is rarer as the days get shorter...
To our surprise we got off the gondola to plenty of snow. It looked like winter, it smelled like winter but it was OCTOBER 20TH!!!!! Despite some odd looks and frazzled faces when we told folks where we were heading we were off to play in the snow....We eventually managed to find our trail head and began a fun ascent through hip deep snow. It took us longer than we predicted and we only made it to little Goat before we were soaked and decided to turn back. It was good times and Cyn was a trooper!!!!
Looking forward to the ski season!!!! it's upon us now...
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