I know I haven't posted much lately. It's not that I am not doing anything but actually doing too much! The first two months of the year were filled with activity. I took a couple of trips to a remote rustic cabin. The first trip was solo to welcome the new year and on the second trip two friends joined in the fun. After pulling our sleds full of gear into the cabin, we snowshoed, skied, chatted, worked on some knitting projects and cooked on the wood stove. The latter is something I enjoy doing but of course I wouldn't want to HAVE to do it everyday. I have fond memories of my Grandma Ursula's wood stove cooking but she was way more accomplished than I.
I also went on two back country sled (winter camping) trips one being the 5-day January group trip that I posted a journal for and another one that I did solo for three days in a nearby national forest.
I also had friends come to visit and stay a few days to visit. I went to the Copper Country for almost a week where I spent four days with seven downstate friends at a cottage. We skied every day of course! After they left, I visited my brother and we both shoveled the snow off the roof of our late parent's house. It's always a lot of work with several feet of snow to remove.
To make winter even more fun I organized two different skirt-skis!...yes we wore skirts while we were skiing. Everyone liked it so much that we are going to make it an annual event for the women's mt biking group (WSG). One of the events took place at night...it was supposed to be a full moon but we actually ended up skiing in the fog...it was really cool! On the way home the full moon appeared as I descended back into Marquette.
Every Wednesday my good friends meet for skiing to continue the tradition we've been doing for years. We actually meet year round but of course our activity changes with the season. Not sure what I would do without this bunch of good people as they are all top notch!
I also traveled to Wisconsin to see my grand baby Emma whom I couldn't love more. She is now 11 months and is crawling everywhere. She is so precious and so cute!
In between all these events I have skied most every day when I am not snowshoeing and even did a few snowshoe runs..something that I used to do years ago (race). I also did a couple of back country skis, one with my friend Sue and the other with a whole lot of people as a fundraiser for the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve.
I continue to test outdoor gear for different companies and love the adventure that goes along with that.
Even though it is March, winter is far from over and I still have lots of winter plans......
