Spring Snowshoeing

It was the second day of spring. We went snowshoeing.

At the northwestern edge of St. Elmo (which of course isn't far from the southeastern edge) there's a road that goes up past several houses. It's just downhill toward the meadow from the Tincup Pass Road, which starts uphill just there. In winter, some folks ski into their cabins but most dwellings remain dormant until St. Elmo's spring, which at just over 10,000 feet comes later than most.

In fact, March and April are usually our heaviest snow months and I hope it happens that way again this year. We need the snowpack now in order to fill the rivers later.

Pictured are Patty and her granddaughter Susana, snowshoeing on the road perhaps a quarter mile from St. Elmo, Colorado, eleven miles from home.