I led my first Saturday Snowshoe for the Cascadians today to Bumping Lake. The Bumping River Road was plowed as far as the Goose Prairie Trail about 1/4 mile before the bridge across the Bumping River west of Goose Prairie. I wasn't sure how much snow we'd find, but there was 4 or 5 inches on the ground and it was snowing when we arrived. Someone had driven an SUV up to the Bumping Lake Dam and walking in the tire tracks made the going pretty easy (a couple of party members even booted it). When we got to the lake we decided to walk along the east shoreline rather cross the dam or walk on the road in the woods. It was forecast to snow about a foot, but about 10:30 the snow turned to rain. We walked a ways past the boat ramp and found a place along the lake shore in the trees & out of the breeze. We were fairly wet by this time, so after lunch we headed back. Once at the boat ramp we took the road rather than the lake shore. We were back to the cars about 1:30, wet, but happy to have gotten some good exercise in the snow.
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