DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW!!!
We went with our friends in the ward, the Kirks, Friday morning up to their cabin in the mountains above Scofield for the weekend! It was a GREAT trip! I have never been on an ATV winter excursion before, and it snowed on us nearly constantly the whole time we were there! It was just enchanting! I LOVED it! All that fresh snow in the pines, and the mountain views were mostly as if in fog because of the lightly falling snow, rather a mystical look to them. Everything was so beautiful, pristine white!
As I said, the cabin was in the mountains in the pines, so we had to park the Jeep at a parking lot right off the road, take the ATV's from there up to the cabin...so that was different! When we got there, the cabin was 17 degrees, same as the outside, so we stoked up the fire, and left for an ATV ride. Diane was leading the way. She told me, make sure not to leave the beaten path where it has already been packed. OK. I can do that. But then she turned off the "main road" onto a side road where some snowmobiles had already gone, and we went toodling down the hill one right after the other. Well, unfortunately, the snowmobile hadn't packed it enough and we all got stuck, clear down the road with the only way out being up another hill! And I mean STUCK!! It was crazy. We got off our ATV's which were on "the beaten path" , and when we stepped into the soft snow just off the beaten path, we sunk in clear up to the crotch! It was a LOT deeper than it looked! Kim will post pictures, and a picture is worth 1000 words, so you will get the picture...but basically we (mostly they) had to use the winch attached to trees up the road to pull our ATV's back up the hill to the top, which was slow and tedious at best. But one of our ATV's winch didn't work, so they had to push it up to the top. They were SO EXHAUSTED after all that physical exertion for hours! I wasn't a whole lot of help with my 3 herniated discs in my back and a hernia to boot... So that wasn't the most fun part of the trip, but even with that challenge, it was a great trip!
We ATVed, played games, watched movies, ate great food... just fun stuff, and the setting was so enchanting I was just thrilled with the whole trip!
This morning Diane and I got ready for church, and then put our snow gear over the top of our Sunday clothes, hopped on the ATV's so we could go to church in the Schofield branch of the church! The church was over 110 years old...original foot pump organ and all! We had 28 people in attendance in Sact. meeting, but it was was one of the best meetings I have ever attended! Totally worth the work it took to get there! Anyway...it was great fun!
As I said, the cabin was in the mountains in the pines, so we had to park the Jeep at a parking lot right off the road, take the ATV's from there up to the cabin...so that was different! When we got there, the cabin was 17 degrees, same as the outside, so we stoked up the fire, and left for an ATV ride. Diane was leading the way. She told me, make sure not to leave the beaten path where it has already been packed. OK. I can do that. But then she turned off the "main road" onto a side road where some snowmobiles had already gone, and we went toodling down the hill one right after the other. Well, unfortunately, the snowmobile hadn't packed it enough and we all got stuck, clear down the road with the only way out being up another hill! And I mean STUCK!! It was crazy. We got off our ATV's which were on "the beaten path" , and when we stepped into the soft snow just off the beaten path, we sunk in clear up to the crotch! It was a LOT deeper than it looked! Kim will post pictures, and a picture is worth 1000 words, so you will get the picture...but basically we (mostly they) had to use the winch attached to trees up the road to pull our ATV's back up the hill to the top, which was slow and tedious at best. But one of our ATV's winch didn't work, so they had to push it up to the top. They were SO EXHAUSTED after all that physical exertion for hours! I wasn't a whole lot of help with my 3 herniated discs in my back and a hernia to boot... So that wasn't the most fun part of the trip, but even with that challenge, it was a great trip!
We ATVed, played games, watched movies, ate great food... just fun stuff, and the setting was so enchanting I was just thrilled with the whole trip!
This morning Diane and I got ready for church, and then put our snow gear over the top of our Sunday clothes, hopped on the ATV's so we could go to church in the Schofield branch of the church! The church was over 110 years old...original foot pump organ and all! We had 28 people in attendance in Sact. meeting, but it was was one of the best meetings I have ever attended! Totally worth the work it took to get there! Anyway...it was great fun!
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