Snow, snow and more snow!

Home from Talkeetna yesterday and back in Anchorage in time for an afternoon ski on more fresh snow. They had already set a diagonal track on the Chester Creek trail, and we had time for a 10k out and back before we vegged out on the couch and watched a movie.  We didn't take pictures, but one notable thing on the trail were the lovely glass Christmas balls that someone had hung carefully from the tree branches over the trail in one section.

Today we wanted to do something different, so we went to a different section of the trails off of the Campbell Airstrip Loop Rd.  Usually we do the groomed trails on the right hand side, and we took our back country skis and had an enjoyable two hours in some really fresh snow - it was snowing most of the time, and they had about 16 inches overnight in that part of town -- much less where we live.

We saw a moose today in the woods, but perhaps more interesting was the one we saw this morning from our window -- right across the street with his big rump in the air reaching up to eat off the tree, then just casually moseying down the street, just like he owned the place.  We stopped in the pictures above to have some tea.  Our landlords arrived home today from Florida and came for a lasagna dinner, and Jessica arrived for a post-Christmas visit later this evening.  It is supposed to get much colder again tonight, but they did forecast a couple of inches more of snow!