Right now I am in my kitchen waiting for the sun to come up. and outside it is snowing. The dogs went out for their morning constitutional and came back inside with snowflakes clinging to their fur. It looks like we already have a few inches of new snow, but I will have to wait until daylight to see exactly how much. And hopefully it continues to snow right through the weekend.
In any case, the pictures shown in this post are already old news. For the last week we have had excellent skating and skate skiing. But today it'll be either downhill skiing or classic cross country skiing. If it turns to rain at my house I'll go downhill, but if windy and fluffy I'll go back to swampy acres for cross country. We'll see what the day brings.
Stuey and I beat in a skate ski track on Lake Catherine. At first the snow was not adhered to the ice, and we had to use our arms more and glide with perfectly flat skis so as not to slip on the push off. It is my belief that these conditions are very good for ones skate ski technique. In places like Anchorage where people learn on perfectly groomed trails they tend to waddle when they ski - body in the center and pushing off with their skis. Waddling is a no go on snow that is not adhered to the ice!
After a couple of days of skate skiing in the same track we created our own little track and the snow adhered to the ice. Our own little track got to be like one of the groomed trails in Anchorage. It was pretty glorious ripping along our track in the late afternoon sunshine with the dogs chasing along behind us.
Patrick
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| Pre sunrise dog walk under the trees in Abercrombie |
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| No 'waddling' technique here! Here we commit to gliding on the ski! |
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| The snow makes it light under the trees even before the sun comes up |
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