A New Year's Walk

The weekend of New Years, sister E and her husband J and I went up to Mt Hood for a few nights. We went snow hiking at Government Camp. It's a little known fact that Hood and I have a love affair going, and the only hard thing about winters in the Northwest is that the mountains are never out so you can go for a few months without ever seeing them. And that is discouraging. But when she breaks through and you see her...all is right with the world.  (Mountains being out is probably only a phrase used here, meaning there aren't any clouds so you can actually see them.)