Taking the advice of my Dental Surgeon I decided to try out Dog Mountain at Mount Seymour before doing a big Snow Shoe (Obviously he did not say to hike dog mountain but to start small to make sure everything in is healing up well.). It was a cloudy day with rain threatening all morning. I hit the trail around noon after dropping my girlfriend off at Stanley Park for softball. The snow was pretty solid all day but a little slippery on the down slope (groin deep post holes seen). After passing First Lake I did not see a person. It was peaceful up on the peak of Dog Mountain with only me the snow and the wind! I did the whole snow shoe doing the First lake loop in just under two hours at a very leisurely pace. After that it was back to Stanley Park to pick up my girlfriend. It was great to get back up into the snow/nature again!
Dog Mountain 2.0 May 14th 2011
