One Snowshoe of a Welcome in Seventy Degree Weather
It’s been a whirlwind of welcoming at DMC since I started back in February. I had a Chicago welcome party, a Denver welcome lunch, a Denver welcome happy hour and then an official Denver Welcome Party in Rocky Mountain National Park. As someone who loves the great outdoors, I suggested to the team that we go snowshoeing in RMNP one weekend. No one had been snowshoeing yet, so it was also a great opportunity for DMCers to get their feet wet with a new activity.
I rented 20 pairs of snowshoes for DMCers and their significant others before heading up to the park, which at first seemed like it might have been a waste of time since the temperature highs for the day were in the low 70’s. But all the same we put on our snowshoes and trekked onto the trail – or what we thought was the trail. There was definitely enough snow to fall in knee deep, so that was reassuring.
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After a while of loud, awkward snowshoeing (sometimes without snow) we arrived at a good resting point where Boris and I saw something really important, so we pointed at it.
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And where we saw a tree that we decided looked like the Tree of Gondor from The Lord of the Rings.
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And where we realized we weren’t on the trail we thought we were on. Oops.
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But we kept on keeping on.
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Eventually we were glad we had our snowshoes. As we neared the peak of our chosen trail the incline got steep and the snow got deep.
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It was well worth the trek though: the frozen lake was a sight to see for sure.
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All in all it was a successful event and I officially feel welcomed at DMC Denver.
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