XC Skiing in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve
Friday, December 9, 2005
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Snow day! Snow day! Snow day!
While it may be no fun getting a phone call at 5:30 AM - I really don't mind when it's to let us know we have a snow day.
Used the morning productively - I ordered my new Dion snowshoes! (www.dionsnowshoes.com) From what little I've seen so far Bob Dion has a great company and he truly cares about his customers - I'm really looking forward to getting mine and giving them a try!
In the afternoon I set off with my XC skiis for the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. I wasn't the first one out on the trails (and I ran into several other folks gliding along. Well, sort of.) Trails were looking pretty nice under about 6 inches of snow. Unfortunately, it was very WET snow, and every five minutes or so I needed to stop and scrape the snowpack off my skiis. In other words, it was a long hard slog with not a whole lot of gliding going on. But I did get some nice pictures...
and a fairly strenuous workout, though not the kind I was hoping for!
JMH
