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Breakfast was bagel thins toasted with cream cheese and smoked salmon. We split a large navel orange and then got dressed in our snow gear.<\/p>\n
From Sunriver it was only about 12 miles up to Mount Bachelor. The snow was heavy and covered everything in a blanket of sparkling white.<\/p>\n We parked at the Edison Butte Sno-Park<\/a> and that’s where we went snowshoeing. The snowshoeing book I bought recently discussed this particular trail and recommended it. It was classified as “easy” and around 3.5 miles long total.<\/p>\n It was a popular place for snowshoers. There were a bunch of different trails and loops to choose from.<\/p>\n A few days before we arrived in Bend, Mount Bachelor got 72 inches in 72 hours! They even shut Bachelor down for a day or two.<\/p>\n There was SO much snow! I’ve never seen so much. It was fresh snow too–soft and deep, not compacted or frozen. We discovered quickly that we sank into the off-trail snow pretty much to our knees!<\/p>\n A trail had been forged in the fresh snow but the trail was narrow and barely wide enough for snowshoes. Michael struggled a lot because his shoes are bigger than mine. We set out on the trail. It was a lot of up and down hills. We trekked through the trees and were dwarfed by them. I love the Ponderosa Pines and how they look in the snow.<\/p>\n The sky was a cornflower-blue-gray but it was clear. It didn’t snow much while we were out there until we turned around.<\/p>\n I’m not sure how far we snowshoes on Saturday. We ended up turning around and doubling back instead of completing the loop.<\/p>\n The trail was getting very difficult and the snow was so soft we were sinking into it. We turned around.\u00a0It was mostly uphill the way back.<\/p>\n We got back to the parking lot.\u00a0I was feeling good and could have gone further on another trail but Michael’s hip was bothering him so we called it a day. It was better to cut it short and be able to snowshoe the next day than have him crippled!<\/p>\n Stats:<\/strong> We returned to Sunriver to clean up, change and eat leftover pizza<\/a> for lunch. Then we went to downtown Bend to walk around and shop (mostly window shopping).<\/p>\n We also walked around Bend and Mirror Pond, then grabbed a beer (Boneyard IPA was my favorite beer of the weekend).<\/p>\n We went to Amalia’s<\/a> for dinner. It was a Mexican place in Old Town. It was packed! The food was pretty good. I had a pork enchilada. I was good– I wanted to eat it ALL but I ate half and saved the rest! Go me! Michael got the chorizo and steak tacos.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nTime: 1:50<\/strong>
\nCalories Burned: 570<\/strong>
\nDistance: ? No idea–maybe 3 miles total?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n