Christmas Eve there still wasn't really sufficient snow to ski, so we took a loooong walk downtown from our house and back around via the trail system - about 2 1/2 hours with a stop for coffee midway. We had seafood fondue for dinner and snacked on Christmas cookies. Christmas morning was great, and we woke up to fresh snow falling - not much but enough that we were able to get out and skate ski, once late morning and again early evening! You can see the moose were out too, and there were people waiting on both sides for this young bull to move away or be more obviously disinterested in us!
I got new classical skis for Christmas, so a couple of days after Christmas, we drove up to Hatcher's Pass again to ski on Archangel Road - great conditions, nicely groomed. We had been intent on getting further than we did on Brian's birthday when we ran out of daylight, but the snow was a little slower, so our attempt to get all of the way to the end of the road (to the gate) failed once again -- the trail goes uphill the entire way and especially after the first half hour or so - it gets laborious towards the end! - the downhill is fun but almost too fast and a lot of snowplowing to be under control. Beautiful day!
On the 30th, we did a 2 hour hike on the South Fork Rim Trail out of Prospect Heights for something different - still no new snow locally, and what's there is dirty and minimal. The weather has been so warm, in the low to mid 30s that the hiking has been one of the best choices! That gave us the idea of doing a longer hike taking the entire Middle Fork Trail doing an 8.5+ mile loop on New Year's Day.
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