Lost In The Right Direction

It was such a beautiful day it's hard to just pick a few pictures to post....The weather has been teasing us the last few days....nice clear mornings...cold...but clear...lots of color in the sunrise.....It got up into the 30's a few times but we are back down to freezing in the evenings.....Melting enough to run some water on the drive...Then freezing down in the evenings and making a skate rink for morning driving....This is always fun....No snow in the forecast for the lower valley areas.....Going to see if there is a good spot this weekend to get out again and snowshoe....Not sure which direction I will go....We shall see....We have had a busy week here providing service for folks who's heaters are breaking down....Strange how that works....It's really cold and nothing breaks down....The weather warms up just a little and man the phones go crazy....Being cold is not fun...Makes folks cranky.....I will be back with more pictures from Sun Mountain Snowshoes trails a

Saturday was grey and overcast in the Pateros area...we ventured up the icy Methow Valley road to Sun Mountain to snowshoe....What a beautiful blue sky day....15 degrees...very slight wind and lots of sun shine....Not ever visiting Sun Mountain in the winter time we were not real sure on what to expect.....luckily the parking lot wasn't to full...so parking was easy....made our way into the lodge for a $5 snowshoe pass for the day....being totally out of our element when it comes to ski areas and such...we had to have a little help figuring out how to attach it to our coats....ask some directions to the best snowshoe trail with a view.... re-parked and hit the trail....well we didn't take the one we were directed to first...but ended up with beautiful views of the valley floor...Winthrop and surrounding mountains....We headed out on Kraule trail....it tends to stay pretty close to the edge of the mountain and circles around and then meets up with View Point Trail....the tra