Monthly Archives: December 2013

Winter Wonderland

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We made it up to Cable late yesterday afternoon. This is Bromont’s favorite place on the planet, so he did his normal hour loop, checking out all his places. We put on some snow shoes and did an hour out in the woods. There is a ton of snow here, over 3 feet, so all the winter options are on. Dennis has been doing some pretty serious loops out there, so it wasn’t too strenuous.

Then we headed over to Cable to the Rivers Eatery. I could eat there ever night here. It is the local gathering spot, so you never know who you’re gonna run into. Garrott Kuzzy was there because his sister was getting married. Kuzzy was on the 2010 Olympic team for nordic skiing. I haven’t seen him for a while, so it was nice. Plus, of course, Mick and Beth, the propriators of the establishment, is the real reason to go there. We never get out of there until they have already been “closed” for at least 3 hours.

Bill, Keith and Catherine showed up before 10. Mick opened another bottle of wine and it just kept going. We got out of there before midnight and while the new imports from Kansas unloaded, I took a long hot tub. I’m going to be spending a fair amount of time in that this trip. My plan here is to do as many different physical exercises and motions that I can, to try to get myself back into some sort of balance. I’m so out of balance that it is going to have to work.

Tomorrow is the long ski. It is not going to be 90 kms. It’s probably only going to be close to 80. It starts at 8 am at the Fish Hatchery, near Hayward. Everyone is invited. I guess it is going from Fish Hatchery, up to the North End warming hut. Supposedly there is going to be some food at the warming hut, supplied by The Brick House, but I wouldn’t bank on that.

Okay, Dennis is making pancakes, so I’d better get in the queue.

Hawkeye came out to meet me this morning.

Hawkeye came out to meet me this morning.

Mick, Beth, Catherine and Bill at the Rivers Eatery last night.

Mick, Beth, Catherine and Bill at the Rivers Eatery last night.

Dennis starting his "famous" pancakes.

Dennis starting his “famous” pancakes.

We ran out of eggs, so Dennis called our friend George, who just lives through the woods, and he brought over 2 dozen eggs his chickens laid.

We ran out of eggs, so Dennis called our friend George, who just lives through the woods, and he brought over 2 dozen eggs his chickens laid.

Double Birkie Day

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It’s way too early for me. I don’t very often get up before my body tells me to get up, well, sometimes my mind does, but I don’t like it much when I have to “force” myself to get out of bed. This is one of those few mornings. One thing good, it isn’t close to cold. It is already 25 degrees, with a high of 30. That is almost too hot.

One bad thing is I woke up pretty tweaked. I shovelled Dennis’ roof in the morning and skied for a couple hours in the afternoon. I think the roof thing was the main cause. Dennis doesn’t have enough insulation up there and he gets ice dams. So, we I shoveled down to the ice, then I’m trying to stay on the roof, with limited friction because of the ice. It makes legs wobbly. The skiing just adding the icing. My shoulder is not horrible. It is sore, but that is to be expected. We’ll see after skiing 7 hours today.

The group today is probably going to be pretty big. The early snow here has allowed a ton of people to get a lot of hours on their skis, plus the weather is good, but is going to get ugly tomorrow, so they probably would like to get a bunch of exercise before the deep freeze.

Okay, I have to cut this short. I have only 30 minutes to do an hours worth of stuff. I should probably wax my skis. They were waxed 4 years ago.

The snow is pretty deep on the roof.

The snow is pretty deep on the roof.

I left the snow on the eve so I didn't slip off when using the rake on the steeper parts.

I left the snow on the eve so I didn’t slip off when using the rake on the steeper parts.

Dennis gave Catherine a waxing lesson last night.

Dennis gave Catherine a waxing lesson last night.