Sylvania Snowshoes and Sun

You can freeze strawberries from a late spring harvest and can beans from a summer garden, but there is just no other way than memory to preserve an early March day in Sylvania. We took the kids snowshoeing in the UP wilderness area and the day could not have been any nicer. The temperature was about 50 degrees and there was more than four feet of snow. It was the first time that either Lisa or I had been on snowshoes when they were a requirement. The snow was as deep as the sky was blue and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. We drove up early on Saturday morning and had a light lunch by the truck before hiking from the "A-frame" to the boat landing on Clark Lake. There was only one set of cross country ski tracks on the route we took to the landing. Sophia and Lisa built a snow man and Merrick slept at the turn around point. Lisa and I pulled the kids most of the way in the sleds and Merrick slept most of the way, while Sophia did have her snowshoes on for about a quarter of the hike. The kids were both soaked by the time we got back to the truck. We stripped them down and changed them in the truck, plied them with fruit snacks and headed back to Eagle River to check into the hotel for the night. After an early evening supper we hit the hotel pool for an hour or so and then the kids were crashed for the night. Preserved only in memories and proofed only with photographs, but it was truly a weekend that could not have been planned any nicer.