bulldozers and boars

ルークくんの大好きな物は三つあります:
1ママ
2乗り物
3動物

今日はママは家で留守番でしたけど大きな乗り物と動物を見て喜びました。

別股の除雪車ガレージからスノーシューハイキングをスタートしました。でっかい除雪車がたくさんありました。子供にオススメじょんのび！

夏の じょんのびマラソンコース を上がりました。最近まで除雪していたみたいなので周りの2mの雪の中に50cm位のスノーロードがあります。安全だし、歩きやすいし、最高です。

去年作られた林道にも入ってみました。どこまで行けるのかな？今日は時間がなかったけど一周できるのかも知れません。

下りで4匹の動物ファミリーに会いました。カモシカより小さいし、タヌキより大きいし、イノシシかなと思います。ルークくんが"わんわんカモン"と言ったので、逃げてしまいました！

ルークくんまた動物探しに行こうね！

Luke has 3 passions:
1. his mum
2. his cars
3. his animals

"ワンワンいたね!"　4 wild boars on the snow?

Today mum stayed at home but he was delighted to come across some big vehicles and interesting animals on his travels.

We started our snow shoe hike from the Snow Plough station in Betsumata. There are a whole range of huge snow ploughs lined up there. Great for the kiddies!

We headed up the summer じょんのび　marathon course.

It seems like the road has been ploughed until relatively recently so in the middle of 2 metres of snow was a nice 50cm deep snow ploughed track. It’s safe and easy to walk on making it ideal for snow shoe hiking.

"ピカピカジャジャいたね！” Luke loves his snow ploughs

We entered some of the new forest roads that appeared last year. I wonder how deep into the hills these roads take you. I suspect it’s possible to tie them up for a nice loop.

On the way back down we came a cross a family of animals. Too small to be deer, but too big to be raccoons. I think they may have been wild boar foraging for food. Luke’s calls of “Doggy, come on!” were enough to send them scampering before we could get close enough to be sure.

Luke let’s go searching for animals again soon!

Sunday's training:

1. Base training: Betsumata forest roads snow shoe hiking (2h, 120 m climbing, 107/142 HR AV/MAX)