Laura herded everyone through the rental shop. The price for the outing included the rental of parka, snow pants, boots, ice axe, helmet, and crampons. It also included transportation up onto the snowfields.
They hiked through the meadow over to the base of the Magic Mile chair lift, most of their gear in lightweight packs and carrying their coats. At the lift she had them shrug into their coats, despite the warm day. The chair was a quad, seating four at a time and it would be much cooler a thousand feet up the mountain. And the Magic Mile was a fast chair generating surprising amounts of wind chill. She sent the Austrians and the newlyweds up in one quad, the dad and his kids next, then she took Akbar and Grayson with her.
Akbar offered her the outside, but she didn’t want this to turn
