Wow. It’s the 31st. Crazy.
It’s been another negligent blogging month. But hey, I’ve been working hard. Things are a little nuts up here in Alaska. Teaching two classes from scratch has proved to be a good challenge. I’m finally getting to the point where I have a little breathing room between my planning and my teaching. But only a little.
In other news, it’s sunny! I mean, there’s actually daylight! Hours of it! Yes, there is a drastic difference between mid-December in Alaska and end-of-January in Alaska. I mean, it was getting light at 8:30 this morning. And the other day, I was out skiing until almost 6pm…with no headlamp!
We could use some snow up here. I have to say…I’m a little disappointed in Alaska. I’m starting to believe that it doesn’t exist. I thought back in November that I was really in for it. But things just haven’t panned out to be as intense as they initially seemed. I mean, temperature usually sits around 20-25 during the day and then drops to around 5-10 at night. But seriously, I thought Alaskans were supposed to be these Xtreme folks. And the snow? We’ve got about a foot and a half or so…Where’s the heaps and heaps and heaps of the stuff? Fortunately it’s enough to ski on, although right now we really really need a fresh six inches or so because it’s basically like an ice rink out on the trails…and I’m only exaggerating a little bit.
But in exciting news, I signed up to do the Tour of Anchorage. It’s a 50k ski marathon. Should be fun. It’s five weeks from today. So I’m trying to get strong again. The good news is that that’s more time than I gave myself back in September…and I have a better base now.
Well, that’s the exciting news. Except that yesterday I came home and climbed out of my car and there was a mommy and baby moose standing in front of my door…blocking my entrance to my house. But they moved. So I don’t actually have an exciting story related to that occurrence.
Luke! It’s been so long! But somehow I managed to “bump into you” in Sweden of all places. Not literally of course. No, I just spent the last semester in Sweden with a few of your former campers Butter (Eva Larson) and Soft Paw (Kaleb Nyquist). We got to talking and figured out we had a mutual friend/counselor/dean. : ) Anyways, Alaska sounds great. You make me want to go there even more! I hope you’ve gotten the snow you were hoping for.
I guess Kaleb’s camp name is South Paw… : ) Hope to hear from you!
Congrats! You should check out my new website, too :)
Hey! I’ll have you know that Alaska is at the TOP of the XC ski world. Now, if I were to move to a country like, say, Morocco and become a citizen and then try and be their representative to the Olympics, I’d say you have a point!