Love Train

On Friday and Saturday, I facilitated a two-day workshop at Tumble Creek Resort near Roslyn, WA.  This was the first time I offered a Winter Celebration Yoga workshop there, and it looks like this may very well be the start of a great annual event for those who live at or who are property owners at Tumble Creek and Suncadia.  What a fun group!  The yoga sessions were energizing, relaxing, lengthening, and strengthening.  The setting -pine, mountains, river, snow- couldn’t have been more beautiful. My hosts were awesome and I loved every second of my time at Tumble Creek!

The weather was cold (7-12 degrees F), so in lieu of snowshoeing, some of us hit the hot tub and soaked after our yoga sessions!  I imagine it looked pretty funny to see us wrapped in thick robes, wearing hiking boots with no socks (all calculated for quick removal!), running to the hot tub while carefully avoiding patches of ice…..to soak!

Rick came across the pass on Saturday after I finished teaching the workshop.  We drove three miles over to the Iron Horse B&B in Cle Elum, where we stayed one night in a bright red Northern Pacific caboose built in 1921.  We woke up on Sunday, Rick’s 62nd birthday, to a good heavy load of fresh snowfall!  Our little Honda looked dwarfed in the snow.  We put on our snowshoes and made our way to the Iron Horse State Park trail.  We kept warm as we snowshoed for an hour and a half.  Snowshoeing is a GREAT workout.

I put this short slide show together, set to fun music.  Walking in this winter wonderland was so delightful!  And it was a photographer’s dream to capture the colorful trains and barns.  Any color set against the pure white snow practically jumped into the camera lens.

Be sure to turn up your volume:

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