First Snowshoe of 2010

Snow players and wanna be snow players,

Here is a brief trip report on our first event. Perhaps this report will motivate a few more of you to join us for future events. We had a small group of five of us -- your leader and four lovely ladies. We all stayed at my small condo at Northstar and so of course I was on my best behavior.

We drove up Saturday morning with good road conditions and fairly light traffic. We arrived at Northstar at 12 noon, had a bite to eat, and headed out the door and up the mountain on snowshoes.



The going uphill on the Northstar snowshoe trail gave us a opportunity to acclimatize to the 6500 foot elevation above sea level. The coming down was a blast with slipping, sliding, jumping and falling and no injuries.

Next we made a visit to the large adult (capacity 25) Jacuzzi for a nice relaxing soak with some of us showing off our "snow angels". If you don't know what a snow angel is you had better join us on our next event!

On Sunday morning we drove up to Donner summit and enjoyed several miles of snowshoeing in spectacular scenery with blue skies. One of our ladies is from Indonesia and this was her first big snow play event. What a splendid time she had!

Here is a panoramic 360 degree movie of the mountain tops on Donner Pass. Notice the fog bank in the valley over Truckee and Donner State Park in the background. (click the arrow to start video.)

Warning: high altitude reaction! Norma had an odd reaction to the high mountain air, but she enjoyed it!