Spring Skiing

It is that wonderful time of the year called SPRING!  When one can often ski in the sunshine, no wind, and just cruise on corn snow!  The last few weeks have been great skiing.  Time to get out on the snow with Christian, friends, dogs, and ski away in warmth.  The reward for skiing in minus whatever temperatures, winds, overflow, hard pack (another way to say ice) and all the extremes we ski with and on out here.

Yesterday we had snow on and off most of the day.  We took out the touring skis and cruised up Picnic Hill in about 2 inches of fresh powder. A nice late afternoon early evening ski. The dogs were thrilled to be out and so were we!

Two great ladies on either side of me that will be moving on to new things in their lives at the end of the school year,  I wish them both happiness and adventure in their new jobs. As I have learned in life it is better to be glad/happy that you have gotten to know such great people even if they move on to new things.  Thanks, great friends!

Hello, weird formatting that won't let me do what I want! I will just carry on . . . This wonderful gal will be heading to UAF to teach and to all the young teachers that will get to know and learn from her, you will be blessed!  The education world will be forever grateful!

The Girls just love being out and cruising around as now they can be on open tundra smelling all kinds of great things!  Hopefully not rolling into much rotten stuff or eating the rotten stuff and barfing later in the house!

As we drove out yesterday you can see the dramatic changes going on these days.  Tundra is showing up, snow is melting/evaporating rapidly. We had snow squalls on the Nulato Hills.  The last few days have been in the teens!  The snow on the ski trails we groom stays for some time.  It is a ribbon of snow out across the tundra and we just keep skiing!

I often ride my new killer cool Fat Back bike out to ski these days. I just load up my skis, carry my ski boots out and ski away!

The Tundra just stretches out forever behind us and now mostly bare of snow except where there are drifts or groomed ski trails.  The trails and drifts are just giant freezers now and we ski away!

Heading back down Picnic Hill which is a nice long gradual uphill/downhill.   The ribbon of groomed ski trail is pretty apparent in these photos.

Sadie and I soaking up the sunshine under that huge deep blue northern latitude sky recently!

My best ski partner ever!  Grooms our ski trails, loves to be outside doing whatever the activity is of the day always fun to share our time together!