General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and....For Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 1 by ViolaAnn

ViolaAnn wrote:
Hi There again

I promised you some pics from our snowshoe outing.

We went to a bog on the outside of Ottawa - probably only a 10-15 minute drive from home - Mer Bleu. Used as a nature preserve in the summer and many ski and activity trails in the winter. Of course, in the winter, you don't have to stick to trails, especially if you are on snowshoes, and it didn't take us long to leave the trail and set off into the bush.

It was a mild day - just below the freezing point. We didn't start out with our hoods up, but if we knocked the snow off a tree branch and down the back of our necks, it was really cold.

At first we were following other snowshoe tracks. But eventually they just turned around. We did too, for awhile. Then we decided to head off into the underbrush to see if we could find a shorter way back to the trail.