Snow Tubing

The weather forecast for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday is for "snow showers".  The Tuesday forecast is for PM ‘snow showers’.  If we were going tubing, it would best be Tuesday.  We chose the Hoodoo Autobahn

We arrived about 10:30a, and suited up.  Lucy and I started off in a double tube.  We hooked up to the tow rope and had a smooth ride up the hill.

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After 2 runs in the double tube, Lucy decided she wanted to ride by herself.  I heard her laughing all the way down the 800’ run.  As the day wore on, the line for the tow rope got really long.  We switched to walking up the hill.  We could get 2 runs in the time it took to wait for the tow rope.  When I say that we walked up the hill, I mean Lucy rode like a princess in the tube as Dad huffed and puffed up the hill.  Max was fast up and down, and he probably got 1/3 more runs in total than Lucy and I did.

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The PM snow showers began at about 2 pm.  By 3p, it was hard to see the bottom of the run.  Not being an experienced I was concerned about road conditions, so we had our last run at 3:15p.  I was right to leave early.  It was scary for me, although I later heard one local comment that ‘this was nothing’.