Today Karla and I got up and headed out to Rocky Mountain National Park to go snowshoeing. The weather looked good and the roads were clear all the way. We found a place in Estes Park that rented shoes for $5, and we decided to get the annual pass to RMNP so we are good to go for a year. We headed up to Bear lake to hike up to Emerald lake, via Nymph lake and Dream Lake. we packed in our packs we're taking to Kilimanjaro in 3 weeks(yikes!) to test them out and our new insulated water packs. In the sun we were really warm. We made it up to dream lake(the 2nd of 3) with no problem, playing in the snow all the way up. Once we hit dream lake we got off the main path somehow and ended up going about 30 minutes out of our way up and down some pretty steep sides of a mountain. Once we found the main path again we were relieved to not have to go back the way we went, but had fun doing it in retrospect. The weather was fantastic, and as you can see it was very beautiful. We were able to walk on the ice as the lakes were frozen solid. about 2 hours up and maybe 50 minutes back made it a very nice day in the mountains. We came back to the Vikings knocking out the Bears by beating the Packers, so it could have ended a bit better for Matt...looking forward to snowshoeing again!
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