Five-year-old Heatherellen Strain and her mom Clare enjoyed the snow immensely.

Six-year-old Alana Tacy brought her dad Ian along for a tour of the mountain.

Jared Power (centre) enjoyed celebrating his 30th birthday by snowshoeing with Kate Power (left) and Vicki Leo.

Sharon and Alex Smith don't get a chance to snowshoe very often in their native land of South Africa. They are both here as students.

They say it was their first time on snowshoes, but they'll be back for sure. From left: Charlene Robson, Antonio Villegas (back), Fumiko Hiraga and Stephanie Anderson.

Eleven-year-old Nicole Morgan and her dad Victor made it all the way up to the lodge and back.

Allison Hossack and Jamie Ollivier are also first timers who enjoyed the experience thoroughly.

Snowshoe guide Paul Varghan is also a forest ecologist who works at the mountain. Showing the difference between the modern snowshoe (left) and the older version (right), he educates people daily in the sport.

Bonnie Marks (from left), David Ritcey and Marjory Jardine are frequent participants having been out three or four times already this year.

"It was amazing," said Andi Krawczyk and Peter Wood who said that the snow was 30 cm deep in some places.

Michael Coderre and Susan Gillard were out there for over two hours as they toured with friends around the mountain.