I've been cross country skiing up into the canyon on the Upper Buskin River every day for over a week. It takes about an hour round trip from the car and is pretty much the perfect ski.
Up until yesterday it has been pretty brutal conditions - icy, windy, and very cold. I'd leave the car and it would be like 10 degrees with 40 mph winds (I know, I know not negative numbers like the rest of Alaska - Kodiak is in the 'banana belt' after all), and my hands would freeze in the gloves. I'd keep at it and after about 20 minutes my hands would warm up. The conditions were also very fast and icy. I'd double pole across long sections of ice. And then I'd get to the canyon and the wind would die and it was all beautiful.
But yesterday it snowed and warmed up. No wind either! What a difference - no frozen hands and no rattling over ice. And the canyon was stunning.
Afterwards, Nora and I took the doggies for a second walk to Lake Gertrude at Abercrombie. The sun set and the moon rose, and the conditions were perfect. Now it just needs to stay that way.
Patrick
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| New powder in the canyon! |
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| This is 'rattling on the ice' conditions |
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| new snow! |
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| New snow on the lake at Fort Abercrombie |
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