Tubing

Wow! Tubing is fun! We were booked in for an 11:15am start, so we were up, fed and ready to leave by half nine. The sun was out, the sky was blue and the road up to Snoqualmie was good – no need for snow chains, which is good because we still don’t know how to put them on!

After putting all our snow gear on so we didn’t get cold (the temp had dropped to 36 degrees which is about freezing) we got our tickets and waited patiently for the clock to tick round to tubing time. Unfortunately with the children full of excitement the clock took its time getting there but eventually it did.

We went and selected our tubes, picked the lane we wanted to go down and the tubing began! Head first, legs first, bottom first, we tried it all. These videos probably don’t give the best feel of how fast it felt, and it probably wasn’t actually that fast, but it felt it as we whooshed down the slope.

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The only downside to whooshing down the slope is the walk back up! We used the pulley a couple of times by mostly walked up – it sure was good exercise!

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And after 2 hours that was that! Can’t wait to go again!