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| Mt. Moffit in the Alaska Range |
Cross-country ski season has officially begun. With about a foot of snow on the ground
now, Ben and I have been laying down tracks on the trails around our
cabin. The snow here is perfectly
dry and fluffy. I have never
experienced anything like it growing up in the Pacific Northwest and then
living in the wet rainforest of Sitka. There is no scraping of car windows in the morning and
shoveling the snow is akin to shoveling air! It is truly miraculous! Sometimes, Ben and I have to be reminded how dry the snow is
we are dealing with. For instance,
Ben had the idea of pelting one of the teachers we were having over for dinner with
a snowball as he arrived at our house (I wonder why we don’t have more friends,
yet???), only to realize that it was impossible to make a snowball. Sneak-attack foiled! Nearly as sad is the lack of snowmen in
yards. But these are two things I would
definitely sacrifice for this amazing powder! I LOVE this
snow!
Our cabin
appears so idyllic blanketed in white with our skis patiently waiting out front
for their next ride. If I
were to have imagined my life living in Alaska 10 years ago, I would’ve hoped
it would look just like this!
BUT……….what you can’t see in this picture is the hours of
hauling water each week in subzero temperatures and you definitely can’t SMELL
the strong sewage odor that is frequently taking over the inside of our cabin
because of a sewage gas leak in a frozen pipe. Sorry, Ma and Pa Clark….I don’t think we’ve told you about
that news update yet ……but WE are still excited you are visiting in a few
weeks, even if you aren’t anymore!
To help alleviate the unpleasant odor, we are still using the outhouse
as much as possible. But we
are making some improvements before our Thanksgiving guests arrive. Our exciting purchase today was
buying some heavy-duty, non-freezing foam in which we will carve a new and
improved toilet seat out of for the outhouse. No more (literally) freezing our rears to the hoar frost
covered seat! Hooray! Get excited, Charli
and Todd!!!!
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| Playing on the fluffy tundra |
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| Ben, admiring Donnelly Dome from afar |
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