Deer and Snow Shoeing

I got a new, really nice camera for my birthday (I know, it's not my birthday yet) and we had to try it out. Hazen and I went for a drive yesterday and saw over 100 deer. I tried to play national geographic photographer but not sure I did so good on my first try. We had a lot of fun though. We were pretty boring last night for New Year's Eve. We went to our friend's restaurant for a drink then came back home and watched the Red Bull No Limits motorcycle jump in Las Vegas. Fell asleep just after midnight.

We planned on getting up early this morning to go snow shoeing but apparently if old people stay up past midnight, they don't hear their alarm go off at 7:00. We still went anyways. We drove out by Garden Valley and found a side road that hadn't been plowed. Strapped the shoes on and took off. We took Lucy with us and she loved it. This is the first time we have really got to do this. One attempt last year didn't work out so well (only went about 20 feet). We still only made it about an hour before Hazen's shoe broke. He had an older pair from his parents that has old, brittle leather. The leather strap broke and he went about hip deep in the snow. He was able to get it together so we could make it back to the truck, but wished we could have gone out longer. We will have to get that fixed and try again.

Snuck up on them

By Lucky Peak Reservoir

Showing off the shoes (before they broke)

It might look cold but snow shoeing is hard work. Promptly after this photo my jacket came off.

Hip-Deep in snow trying to fix his shoe