Winter "Ski" Trip to Victor, Idaho

The first weekend in March, Mike and I and several of our friends escaped to Victor, Idaho for some winter fun. We rented a quite nice cabin and filled up our car with all our snow playing gear: skis, cross-country skis, snowshoes, crampons, gear to try snow biking, etc. Dave rode with us in our car and we were the first to arrive. Steve and Tessa came. So did Lane and Carol-Lyn, and then Katie and Lloyd joined us the next day. 

Dave and Mike and I played Jenga in the cabin the night we arrived

On our first full day there, Mike and I and Steve and Tessa went snow biking on the trails at Grand Targhee. I got wiped out pretty quickly after two hours of that! But we had fun. And then Mike was going to ski at Grand Targhee in the afternoon with Lane, Dave and Carol-Lyn. I really wanted to go but I was torn since I was pretty tired from snow biking in the morning. In fact, I was so torn over it that I cried in trying to make my decision! I figured out pretty quickly that my crying was a sign of just how tired I was and that I probably shouldn't go skiing. But it was killing me to be a Grand Targhee and not go skiing! Oh well, so I found a beach chair in the warm sun and read my book for a bit until I could get a ride back to the cabin with Steve and Tessa.

Snow biking at Grand Targhee

A new way for me to enjoy the slopes of Grand Targhee, much to my chagrin

Carol-Lyn and Mike skiing at Grand Targhee with the Tetons in the background

Our second day, I got up early to take Mike, Dave, and Lane to the trail head of the peak they wanted to climb: Table Top Mountain. It was pretty funny seeing all three of them pile onto a single snowmobile to traverse the first four miles that was on a road. And then I went back to the cabin to take it easy until early afternoon when I came back to the trail head to cross-country ski the same road they snowmobiled until I saw them coming back.

Dave, Lane, and Mike headed out to hike Table Top Mountain

Mike near the top of Table Top Mountain

On Sunday, we went to sacrament in a local ward there in Victor and then headed over the mountain into Jackson, Wyoming to snowshoe in the rain in Grand Teton National Park - although we didn't know it was going to rain on us. The rain was kind of a bummer but it was something to do, although I did get pretty wet.

Snowshoeing in the rain in Grand Teton National Park

Then Monday morning we headed back home. Quick, but fun trip with good friends. And there was only a few times that I felt crummy due to "morning sickness."