{"id":39,"date":"2007-03-08T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T17:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/the-perfect-commute\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:09:55","slug":"the-perfect-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"The perfect commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau is having a great snow year.\u00a0 (This is already the fifth snowiest winter season in Juneau.\u00a0 By March 6, there was 164 point 7 inches, according to Meteorologist Nathan Foster in the Juneau Forecast Office.)\u00a0 The ski commute home from the UAS campus across Auke Lake, a brief ski down back loop, and then breaking trail along the Montana Creek trail over to Mendenhall River, and finally home is probably only about 5 miles, but took about 2 hours and was exhausting.\u00a0 What a great way to shift gears from work to home!\u00a0 I did this on last Friday and again Monday (UAS snow day).\u00a0 These pictures are from my cell phone&#8211;the only camera I had.\u00a0 Some of the trees back there are almost 2 meters in diameter, so it is a phenomenal ski in the woods!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few pictures, and you can check them all out at the <a title=\"Ski Commute Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200703skihome\/\">gallery<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200703skihome\/imgs\/03-05-07_1703.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 383px; height: 307px\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200703skihome\/imgs\/03-05-07_1703.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The happy commuter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<hr>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200703skihome\/imgs\/03-05-07_1724.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 407px; height: 326px\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200703skihome\/imgs\/03-05-07_1724.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Looking forward down the trail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<hr>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200703skihome\/imgs\/03-05-07_1717.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 424px; height: 339px\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200703skihome\/imgs\/03-05-07_1717.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Looking back the trail already skied.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200703skihome\/imgs\/03-05-07_1802.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 427px; height: 345px\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200703skihome\/imgs\/03-05-07_1802.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The home stretch (looking down our street&#8211;our home is down there at the end of the road, under all the snowy trees (with an 8 foot tall pile of snow on each side of the driveway!)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau is having a great snow year.\u00a0 (This is already the fifth snowiest winter season in Juneau.\u00a0 By March 6, there was 164 point 7 inches, according to Meteorologist Nathan Foster in the Juneau Forecast Office.)\u00a0 The ski commute home from the UAS campus across Auke Lake, a brief ski down back loop, and then &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The perfect commute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}