Spooner Lake Snow Shoeing
We went snow shoeing at Spooner Lake, up in the Lake Tahoe basin with the Tahoe Rim Trail Association. Spooner Lake is about a 50 minute drive from us. The Sierra Moutains got over 700 inches of snow this year. There was still 6 feet or so as at Spooner Lake. It's important when you go snow shoeing to dress properly so you don't get to sweaty. If you get sweaty you risk the chance of getting hypothermia. So we had to pick the proper layers of clothing so that we wouldn't get cold or to hot. We had to wear a base layer a Second layer and a 3rd layer. Then when we got to Spooner Lake we had to put our Snow pants and jacket on. We had to be at spooter At 8:45 AM. We had to try on snow shoes to see what would fit us. Once we we all set and everyone was introduced, we headed out. We learned about trees from a representative from the Sugarpine Foundation. The person who taught us about trees was Named carley. We learned how to tell the difference between Jefferson pine...