'Extra Blue' is a type of kicker wax for cross country skiis. It's the wax I use when there is powder on the ground and the temperature is in the 20's. Basically when the skiing is perfect. Not too cold and not too warm or mushy either - and no ice! 'Extra Blue' is slang for ideal conditions amongst the cross country ski cognoscenti.
Today in Kodiak we woke up to 'extra blue' conditions. Overnight it snowed 3-4 inches (we now have almost a foot on the ground), cleared off, and stayed cold. Gregg, Zoya and I went out to Lake Catherine and went for a cross country ski. After a few laps of the lake we struck off into the woods on the old military roads. All the spruce boughs bent over the trail with their load of snow. Great Skiing.
Photos: Top - Gregg and Zoya on Lake Catherine. Bottom - another view of the same canyon and mountain bowl that I took yesterday (I also took and posted the same photo 2 years ago). Different day - different light; always beautiful. Patrick
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