The Dreadful Snowshoeing Trip
Pictured: Hannah Zaini, Me, Katie Rupp (I forgot who took the photo, sorry!) Just kidding, this trip wasn't dreadful at all. It was actually really fun and involved great people surrounding me. Even though the morning started out sitting in the car and driving back and fourth to two different destinations, just to go back to our original destination in the pouring rain was a lot to handle- the trip ended up becoming interesting and a story to tell later on. We went February 2nd, left the campus at 9, but we didn't get to actually snowshoe until 1:30 on Gold Creek in Snoqualmie pass. Figure 1 Figure 1 shows the first animal prints that the group encountered. At first, Hannah Zaini and I assumed that the tracks were made by a rabbit, since they were spread apart and rabbits use their hind legs to hop. The animal tracks turned out to be a squirrel, I forgot what kind. Tom told us that rabbits usually have a longer track made since they are kind of throwing the snow ...
