Afternoon ski club

 

These days just like last spring due to COVID all the Kodiak schools are all shut down.  Every weekday morning Nora 'virtually' and electronically attends the Kodiak High School while Stuey meets as a part of a 'pod' of four kids with one teacher.  And it is not just the kids - like last spring I have been mostly working from home rather than going into the museum.  Such is life in the COVID 19 world.  

But it is not all bad - I get to ski with the kids practically every afternoon.  In normal times there would not be enough time in the winter afternoons for such after school activities.  Nearing the Winter Solstice the sun sets near 4:30.  So to get in a ski we have to leave town by 2PM if we want to get home before dark.  This year due to COVID the kids are free by 2 PM - and skiing counts as 'physical exercise'.  So we got a ski club.  A few other kids join us on occasion too.  So it really is a ski club like you generally only find in a big city like Anchorage or Fairbanks.  Places where they have organized activities on snow.  

I've always been slightly jealous of the ski programs for kids in these cities, and had resigned myself to the fact that this sort of activity would never be a part of the program for my kids.  Kodiak is just too small and never really has enough snow to support such a ski culture.  Ironically with COVID, this year in the big cities I have a feeling that the ski programs for kids are much more curtailed if not cancelled outright.  At the very least I bet the kids in Anchorage have to wear masks while they ski.

I got to admit I am looking forward to later on in the winter and spring when with the longer days I can go on longer 'after school' on snow outings with the kids! 

Patrick

If you look closely in the background of this picture you can see Navy SEALs training