Yesterday Mark and Chase arrived to help me with the Karluk Lake archaeological survey next week (more on this in another post). But before we fly off to the lake for 10 days of roughing it and dodging bears all the while finding and mapping sites - there is the Like A Face exhibit opening here in town and plenty of skiing.
The exhibit opening will be huge - 40 masks that were collected on Kodiak by Alphonse Pinart in the 1870s are back in Kodiak for the Summer! The museum has created a traveling exhibit in collaboration with the Boulogne-Sur-Mer Museum in France who owns the masks. Needless to say, but everybody is excited about the up coming opening.
I think Chase is most excited about the skiing. Ostensibly he came up for the survey, but I think the opportunity to go skiing had a lot to do with it too. He's from New Hampshire and helped run a dog sledding operation near Mount Washington all winter. They lost all their snow in mid April. After the survey is done, and Zoya and I and the kiddos head out East, Chase will be dog sitting, watching the house and Skiing to his heart's content. It seems I am not alone with my infatuation with snow.
Photos: Chase skinning up Pyramid yesterday afternoon. Middle - Chase ripping it on the way down. Bottom - the museum and town in the morning. All ready for the exhibit opening! Patrick
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