A Glimpse at my Weekend:
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| One of the last rollerskis of the season! Rollerskiing in 20F temps on frozen leaves is not very fun! |
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| The Cook Inlet in the background |
Going Swimming! |
| Us with knee injuries have done a little swimming. Sadie used to swim competitively so she relies on swimming to workout quite a bit so I decided to jump in and try it with her. Swimming is HARD! She lapped me many times until I finally swam a mile. |
Alaska has a couple skiing secrets, well not really secrets, but they are secret because only people brave enough to venture up to Alaska get to experience them. The Eagle Glacier is the first of such amazing places and Hatcher's Pass is the second. Hatcher's Pass is just outside of Palmer, AK, north of Anchorage and is high enough in the mountains to get snow when no where else does. While in town the ground is well frozen, it is bare so we have been spending some time driving up there.
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| This is about 9:00AM, the sun is just starting come up. |
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| Hatcher's Pass is a former gold mining village so the trails go right through the village and around all the buildings. |
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| The main drag |
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| The actual mine and associated structures |
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| Making my way up the big hill. There is only about 3k, but a lot of vertical |
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| Looking down on the village |
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| After our interval workout, the sun came over the mountains! Getting on snow for the first time has never felt better for me. I think all the skiing on the glacier really did the trick. I am feeling much more fit this year! |
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| Sadie and I got some new shades from Rudy Project, nice and bright! |
After a nice 3 hour skate ski up at Hatcher's, we scrambled to put together some Halloween costumes.
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| Sadie and her boyfriend, Waldo |
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| Sadie and I were a "crime scene" complete with handcuffs, pistol, police badge, and magnifying glass |
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| Sundays are our day off so we always have a big family breakfast. This morning, I woke up earlier than Sadie and commenced on a Halloween breakfast |
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| I made a pumpkin mold and used it to make some Pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes complete with an M&M stem and a tasty topping of yogurt, candy corn, and Sophie's VT maple syrup! |
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| I looked out the window this morning to find this!! It snowed a couple inches of some really slick snow that compacted into a nice slippery sheet on the road. |
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Alaska does not salt or plow roads, they just sprinkle some gravel and call it good. I have never experienced such a small amount of snow (about an inch) cause the roads to go from perfect to miserable and I did spend 4 years in New England. I think I will be investing in studded snow tires tomorrow. It is supposed to stay cold so I'm afraid the roads are going to look like this until April.......Hopefully it snows a little more so we can ski in town!
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To top off the weekend, Sadie's boyfriend treated us to some grab for letting him crash at our house for a bit! YUM!
Rollerskiing is most certainly done with here so I hope it continues to snow so we can ski in town this week. There are hundreds of kilometers of groomed trails in Anchorage and I have only skied the race courses so I am excited to check out some new trails! |
Lastly, I have figured out my race season for the first part of the season and have updated it on the schedule tab above. I am excited to say the Brennan's will be having a full attendance at Thanksgiving for the first time in a while as my mom, dad, and brother will be joining me in West Yellowstone!!! Check it out and come see a race!
