Happy Birthday to over half the family in March! We had a big birthday bash for the March birthday's at my Mom's house. There are so many of them it is easier to have one big party. The cousins always have a great time getting together and being silly.
Byron got all the stuff to start back country skiing lately and we decided to head up the canyon and try out his beacon finding skills. Hopefully he will never need finely tuned beacon finding skills but he would be much better at it now than he was when we left for this activity. Up at Solitude they have a beacon course set up so you can go with your equipment and find "victims" buried around their course. So the idea is you start the box there in the picture and it turns on a beacon out in the snow somewhere and you use your tracker to locate and "dig out" the victim. You don't actually dig out the victim though. We had a great time hiking through the woods and tracking down avalanche victims. We also did a bit of Geo-caching while we were up the canyon. Fun day! The photo on top is the Beacon box, the electrical pole photo is the geo-cache find.
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