Funny weather lately in Kodiak. It's been clear and cold and windy for a few weeks now, and this week we got a snow storm that hit Juneau and Anchorage before it got to us. Normally storms hit us and then go on to Anchorage and Juneau. Now the storm is a big low just stalled in the gulf of Alaska. So for the last few days we have had intense snow squalls interspersed with sun. Right now it is sunny, but we got two inches of snow this morning. And yesterday we got another 2 inches of snow interpsersed with sun.
This morning when Gregg, Lisa, John Mahoney and I went skiing we had a hard time just driving to the the outlet of Buskin Lake. Whiteout conditions with high wind. It did not make for an auspicious start to our ski. I was worried it would be 'rag on Patrick whose silly idea it was to go skiing' day. And the beginning of the ski across the lake was a little medieval. Big drifts, blowing snow and whiteout. But once we made it across the lake and into the woods it ended up as perfect ski conditions. Very little wind in the woods and about 5 inches of new powder on top of a 2 foot base. We had a blast, and all agreed that it had been a good idea to go for a ski afterall. Patrick
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