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Testing blogging from the phone. Matt is heading out (solo 🙁 ) on the first flight of the year. Three months with no travel-wahoo!
Here’s the Juneau airport (looking towards Eaglecrest) on the first day of summer..
Settling in for almost three days of travel…
We only got 10+ cm of new snow this past week, but that leaves us with about 3.3 m of snow at the Eaglecrest snow study site. And then the sun came out. (We are still in the top 20 ski resorts in the world in terms of snow depth! At number 20 as I write..) It doesn’t get any better than this:
A little ways down the slope I took a second pano.
If you want an even bigger size (only 3 MB) and higher resolution pano/quicktime you can navigate, try this one.
Another sunny, fantastic weekend in Juneautopia. Saturday downhill skiing at Eaglecrest, Sunday, a fantastic “hosted” cross country ski and Mendenhall Lake/Campground/Glacier (hot soup and coffee/tea by Franz and Susan–thanks!). Juneautopia at its finest!
Carrie was busy working at the Juneau Artists Gallery on Saturday, so didn’t get to come head up Eaglecrest. But she made up for it with fun skiing on Sunday. Here’s a few more photos from the fun:
A hot night out on the town–this was the Juneau Montessori fundraiser that Carrie and Matt got too on a date–woohoo! The auction was good (Carrie did manage to keep Matt away from the desserts).
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| From Hot Salsa, Cool Ballroom 2009 |
We had a great time seeing lots of friends. The action was too fast for many non-blurry pictures, but here are a few:
Carrie and Matt went out for a quick mid-day break of some cross country skiing. Auke Lake was too soggy, the new Auke Lake trail didn’t have plowed parking, so we finally settled on dashing to Brotherhood Trail. The temps were warm–it started raining midway through. But being outside on skis (with happy dogs) beats the inside anyday! Carrie was ready for the vertical!
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| From Carrie Skis Feb 2009 |
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| From Carrie Skis Feb 2009 |
Torsten continues to impress with his dance moves. Try and keep up if you can, ladies!
Malcolm came over one Saturday morning in January, and the guitars came out, and the rockin’ started.
Torsten is really enjoying the snow this winter! He has had a blast sledding–Mendenhall Lake has some great terminal moraines which pile up the snow..
Torsten loves going to cross country ski on Mendenhall Lake. On Saturday (when Matt was exploring the terminus of Mendenhall), Carrie and Torsten met up with Brian and Cathy on the Mendenhall Campground trails. Torsten is getting to be a good skier. He loves using his ski poles, and we don’t know where he got his good technique!
Torsten is getting (too?) comfortable on his downhill skis. Weekend before last, we all went up to Eaglecrest, and met Nathan, Amanda, and Adam for some skiing fun. We recorded a movie–Matt definitely doesn’t have a future as a ski videographer…