Ed Soehnel

GPS route, short description and some pictures included on everytrail.com. From our recent vacation in Kauai. Flash widget below.

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For Sue’s birthday, we took a quick trip up to Snow Mountain ranch for a night.  We stayed in a 2 bedroom cabin Friday night and did some hiking around on Saturday.  Before we returned to Denver, we loaded up on cinnamon rolls and other goodies from Rise and Shine Bakery in Winter Park.

To view our hike paths, with pictures and videos in maps: KMZ file (Google Earth);  Google Maps

A few photos below.  All photos here.

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Since Thanksgiving was our only free day for the long weekend, we decided to head up to Snow Mountain Ranch near Tabernash, CO for a little biathlon practice ,hiking and general enjoyment of the mountains. We brought Jahzara, our Greyhound and she enjoyed running around and stretching her legs out.

Not enough snow to do any X-C skiing or even snow-shoeing, at least at lower elevations (we were at 8700 feet).  Weather was overcast, but very mild (0 C/32 F) and calm.

Biathlon practice was pretty dismal, but expected since its been awhile.  Popped off 120 rounds. Over a few practice runs, I shot 40%, at best, and that was at a resting heart rate.

Photo on left included my opening rounds for adjusting my sight.  I use Federal Gold - my gun seems to like it the best by giving a tighter spread.  Photo on right was my closing rounds (last rounds fired for the day) to check my sight.  I must have I mis-adjusted my sight by the looks of this, which might explain why I was shooting so poorly.

For most of the session, I was using Tennex ammo, which I wanted to use up.  As seen in the photo on the right, it does not produce a tight spread like the Federal Gold.

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The KMZ (Google Earth) file for our putzing around at Snow Mountain is here.

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