Snow in March

Just as the crocuses start to poke their heads out, and an entire winter passes with almost no snow, Cumberland woke up Thursday morning to some of the white stuff. It was our first time during the Spring Break to finally have a lie in, but afraid it would all melt away, I let the children know. Well we discovered our children can actually get up, dressed and out in less than 15 minutes!! The next day, to their enjoyment, even more snow fell which meant record snowfall on Mount Washington: 43 cm in 48 hours. Perfect powder conditions!

Saturday afternoon, to help celebrate Issie's 8th birthday, we packed all our snow gear and headed up the mountain. We actually hoped to go tubing (sliding down a snow covered hill on giant inner tubes), but with flurries in the forecast, and our car not equipped with snow tires, we only went part of the way up. We were thrilled to find a prestine snowshoe path, that doubled as a perfect tabogan run. The views were magnificent, the snow superb, and the sledding (skeleton or luge) a blast!!