STEP 1: Set out in the tacoma with hounds, go about half a mile and realize ski boots are at home.
STEP 2: Go back, get boots, put them in bed of truck, get distracted cuz headlights need to be adjusted, futz around with those, leave tailgate and cap hatch open.
STEP 3: Drive 16 miles to trailhead. Get out, go around back to get boots and see tailgate and hatch open. RUH ROH. 1 boot is missing.
STEP 4: Miraculously, Zeke listens to the command "wait" and am able to collect all three dogs and put them back in the truck after having just let them out. This step could have easily taken an hour if Zeke or Ruby had gone into crazy coyote mode.
STEP 5: Drive a mile back down the road and find boot.
STEP 6: It is now snowing so hard that the tracks made just a minute ago driving down the road are gone when driving back up to the trailhead. Let dogs out. Again. Mount up and head out.
STEP 7: Climb 1000+ feet on the Charger BCs without skins. These skis are made for this tour. Encounter helpful navigation feature in the mostly featureless forest.
STEP 8: Wonder if someone was trying to tell me something with the boot mishaps and perhaps I should take it easy when I spot this.
STEP 9: Nah! Climb above it and schussbomb.
STEP 10/11/12/13/14/15/100: More and more schussbomb.
EPILOGUE: still life with headlamps charging.
