Sunday, December 4, 2011

Christmas Tree Cutting 2011

Starting in Alaska, Emily and I like to go out into the woods and cut down our Christmas tree. And this Sunday it was a beautifully clear day so we decided to go out and get ourselves a tree. The sad thing is that there isn't money in the budget to plow the forrest access roads this year so we couldn't go where we went last year (around Exit 44 on I-90). But we say that our neighbors got a tree yesterday, and they said they went to exit 38 and had no trouble, so there we went.
About to head out and go find ourselves a tree!
Banjo loved being back in the snow. He ran all over and rolled around like crazy.
The area where we were was filled with really big trees. Which means there wasn't a lot of room for little trees to grow. But there was this clearing on the side of the hill that Emily decided to scope out. She ended up finding us a good one, but we had to hike down about 200 feet. And the snow had a layer of ice on it making it a little tricky to get down.
Emily happy that she found our tree.
Making our way to cut down the tree.

It's kind of hard to tell, but our tree is behind me.
A beautiful and clear day up on the Pass.
'Dood just love the snow.
TIM-BIRRRRRRR!!!!!!
Abe liked using the walking pole.
Back at the car with our tree.
Emily made some hot chocolate. It sure tasted extra hot and good after our outdoor adventure.

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