Review season is in full swing, and we’ve been pretty busy for the last couple of weeks, but made time today to get out for some snowshoeing in Rabbit Ears Pass to pick out a Christmas tree.

sbg tree 300x224 Snowshoeing for Christmas Trees The Routt National Forest ranger offices sell Christmas tree cutting permits for $10 each, and we’ve taken advantage of this for the past several winters, spending an afternoon hiking into the woods around Rabbit Ears Pass. This year’s tree is a smaller tree, but it’s perfect for us. We rescued it from a crowded little stand of trees, hopefully our thinning will help out that section of trees.

Today was my first day out on a new pair of Atlas BC24 snowshoes, and I was thoroughly impressed with them. They’re pretty light-weight for their size, and they float great. It seems like I’ve seen a million different strap systems in the last 10 years, and the BC24 has one of the better systems, easily adjusting to my snowboard boots and holding them tightly. I’ll have a full review of the shoe up in another week or so, once I’ve had them out a few more times.