Thanksgiving 2009. We took our first trip as a family of 4 to Leavenworth, WA to do some winter hiking.






Leavenworth is a town on the East of the Cascades that has remade itself as a Bavarian village, complete with bad German. It also has lots of Christmas lights - overall very cheesy, but close to great hiking.

On the way there, we stopped at Stevens Pass on Rte 2 for Maeve to play on the snow. Here's some snow running. A good game.











One day we went hiking on an old rail-trail down by the Wentatchee River.















































































Another day we went hiking up Icicle gorge. There was more snow there, so Maeve got to hike on snow and eat ice.








On our way home, we stopped by Snoqualmie Pass for more fun in the snow.