Bob and I went to Vail yesterday, about 2 hours away. It is a small mountain town that relies on tourism and skiing to survive. I immediately fell in love with the atmosphere. The buildings reminded me of being in Lucerne, Switzerland.
We didn’t go skiing or snowboarding this time. Instead, I heard about a free snowshoeing tour that would last an hour so we checked that out. We took a free gondola ride to the top of Lionshead Mountain and the ride seemed endless. This mountain was huuuuge.
We made our way to the nature center on top of the mountain and strapped on our snowshoes, which was extremely complicated. Walking in them wasn’t much easier. Imagine wearing clown shoes that are 10 sizes too big and waddling.
We had a large group for this tour- about 18 people and that included an older lady that couldn’t climb up any incline and had to crawl in the snow, very much like the 4 year old boy in our group. Throughout the tour our guide stopped to point out animal footprints in the snow, like the snowshoe rabbit and other rodents.
