A sunny weekend in February is a rare and marvelous thing. After a week of grey skies and cold, damp weather Andy and I absolutely had to get outside to make the most of the glorious weather! We spent Saturday catching up on all the boring errands adult life entails, but Sunday morning, we headed out for some hiking. Rather than brave the crowds that would surely be swarming every snowshoeing route in the mountains, we decided to hike the nearby Middle Fork Snoqualmie River. Our strategy worked surprisingly well, and we saw only a handful of other hikers as we followed a lovely trail through sunny, frozen forest. The hilight of the day for me was finding hair ice in multiple places along the trail. After reading about hair ice in a WTA article late last year, I'd been on the hunt for this strange and uncommon phenomenon. Now that I know this is a good trail for spotting hair ice, I'll definitely be returning for more cold weather hikes in the future!
Getting dirty looks for oh-so-rudely interrupting his nap in front of the fire
Decadent weekend breakfast of gingerbread spice dutch baby to fuel our chores
Possibly my favorite pizza of all time. Roast duck, arugula, pistachios, and goat cheese
Hair ice! I'll definitely want to return with a macro lens to try to get better photos of this stuff in the future
