Snowshoeing

We had been planning to go to Mexico for Christmas. But at the last minute, we dug our snowshoes out of our storage unit, and our hats, coats, gloves, scarves and boots out of the very back of our closets, and went to Albuquerque instead.

Christmas morning we went snowshoeing in the Sandia Mountains. We went early to beat the sledding crowds, who were all still home opening presents. At first it was very cold.

But the sun was strong and the cold breeze died down as we progressed along the trail.

I was reluctant to take off my gloves to take pictures, but I did manage to get a good picture of John.

John took tons of pictures of me. We were both very happy that I’ve gotten strong enough to snowshoe at high elevation.

I have old pictures of me snowshoeing to the top of Mt. Taylor, on December 27, 2009. Same snowshoes, same gloves, same blue striped hat, same haircut, (same husband, lol), but still a very different me. The picture above is from a week and a half ago, and the picture below is from 14 years ago.

If you zoom in to this next one, you can see a little point-and-shoot camera hanging from a loop at my side. Times have changed so fast.

That hike, 14 years ago, was very hard. I don’t imagine I could do it nowadays.

Here’s John from that same hike in 2009.

It was a beautiful Christmas morning, snowshoeing in the mountains east of Albuquerque.

Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year!

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