this past saturday we took off with two of our favorite friends {brady & kellie white} to go snowshoeing at mount timp.  we were lucky to have had it snow so much the night before because we had SO MUCH fresh powder!  it was a blast, but definitely showed me how out of shape i am.  brady, kellie and chase were all crusing and i was having a hard time keeping up with them…..better start adding intensity to my workouts this week

chase and brady were a couple of dare-devils and climbed up to cliffs to jump off and land in the fresh powder.

we climbed to a reasonable height and sat down to have a good old fashioned “sandwich in a baggie’ picnic.  let’s just say that  1) chase wasn’t happy that we didn’t keep climbing up the avalanche-zone mountain and had to stop to eat and  2)  i was freaked out that we even climbed as high as we did.  {ever since erik died in that avalanche last year, i am freaked of them}

but it was still fun and we had a great view both in front of us and in back of us.  we were sitting right in front of a waterfall that was still active, it was so gorgeous!

{please don’t mind my pasty white, unmake-up’d face}

after lunch, we headed back down the mountain, and in the process jumped off a bunch of jumps.  one particular jump got brady stuck for a good 2 minutes.  his long legs just went straight through the powder and we couldn’t dig him out!

and then we had to take the typical “king of the mountain” shot of chase!  he was actually standing on top of a tree right here, so it was kind of scary, but hey!–chase is scared of nothing, apparently..

it was such a great day for venturing to the mountains.  nice weather, nice powder and nice friends!