Snowshoeing

[Throbbin Rods]

Decided this morning to break out the snowshoes and take a trek around my land to see what is what. Tons of deer tracks, 2 deer beds, several places where they have been digging for beech nuts and acorns, lots of poo. Several sets of bunny tracks. No fox or coyote tracks. No deer spotted, 3 grouse flushed. Wouldn't have gone quite so far but I lost the snow basket off one of my poles up in the woods and had to back track. Planning to try and do this every day to get in shape. Heading in to get the rest of my right big toe fused sometime in February and trying to get as many miles as I can on my show shoes before then.
Ended up doing just over 3/4 mile. Feels good to be getting back to doing the things I have missed so much.

[Rick]

Call me lazy, but snowshoeing for fun doesn't sound like fun.

[Throbbin Rods]

Fresh air, exercise, checking on my local deer herd. I do enjoy it.

[aunt betty]

Fresh air, exercise, checking on my local deer herd. I do enjoy it.

If you like that then maybe you should head to central Illinois next December for some plowed cornfield mud stompin.
After a while you get black mudshoes that weigh about 15# each.
Once you see an Illinois River or Sangamon Rver valley buck you'll probably want to. They raise some huge ones over there.

[Throbbin Rods]

Betty, that would be very reminiscent of the goose hunting trips to the Finger Lakes. There is an area called The Muck Land by locals and we used to kill geese like it was our job over a potato field in the Muck, but the muck snowshoes were brutal.