[All Things Quality] A New Hobby - Snowshoes

  

In our continuing quest to get out of the house more, do more things, and try to stay more fit, my wife and I added a new hobby - we bought ourselves some snowshoes.

As with our kayaks, she went for a "girlie" color - powder blue, and of course I got the far more "manly" red.

This past weekend, we had plenty of snow on the ground, the weather was sunny, not too cold, and almost no wind, so we went outside to try them.

On Saturday, we trekked the suburban wilderness of our back yard and surrounding woods for a few hours.  Not bad, once we got used to them.  Our neighbors looked at us oddly as we walked on top of the 5-6 foot high mounds of new snow in front of the house, but it's not the first time they've gotten a chuckle from us.

On Sunday, we drove to nearby Lexington, and walked (snowshoed?) along part of the Lexington Minuteman Trail. A few others were there as well - either snowshoeing or cross-country skiing.  The trail has some nice scenery, and a few interesting markers along the way.  And we didn't have to break our own trail unless we wanted to; when we got tired, we could just follow the trail of others for an easier walk.

It was a lot of fun, and pretty good exercise, too.  Seems like a nice new weekend activity when the winter weather isn't too forbidding.


This article originally appeared in my blog: All Things Quality
My name is Joe Strazzere and I'm currently a Director of Quality Assurance.
I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing.
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