There's a Lesson to Everything

Landon is convinced that every event in life has a gospel lesson in it.  So, during last weekend's snowshoeing experience, we were coming up with all kinds of good parallels to the gospel.  Maybe I will use it in one of my sunday lessons, :) . We decided to try out our new Christmas present--nice new snowshoes.  We were going to go to Stewart Falls.  But, when we got up to Aspen Grove, finding the trail proved more difficult than planned.  You can't see any trails in snow!  So we decided to just follow someone else's tracks, and what do ya know, they were going to Stewart Falls too.  They didn't stay on the trail very well though, we later came to find as we trekked up steep mountain sides and through trees to follow their trail.  We then came to where their trail ended, and we could either follow a cat-track, which seemed a little easier, or trudge through new snow where we thought there might be the real trail (with marks on the trees).  We ended up taking the more convenient cat-track because it seemed to go in the right direction toward the top of the falls.  After about 3 miles, the waterfall was just over the next ridge, but we were stopped by a man who said the cat-track we were on was a private road.  They sent us back without having seen the waterfall.  What a bummer, eh. Had we continued on the other trail I think we would have gotten there, but by that time it would have been too dark, so we just turned back.  On the way back we had some races in the snowshoes, sang some crazy songs, and made snow angels looking like skiers, ha.  As we got closer to the cabins, we did some trail blazing, which was pretty fun.  It was a great free Saturday date, and a good workout.
  So, we learned that just like in the gospel, it doesn't always pay to take the trail that is more convenient or more fun.  You should stay to the trail that has been marked for you and you will get to where you want to go in the end.

Somewhere between Aspen Grove and Sundance.