These are some of the things we've been doing this year, and what a few areas look like.
We start with new years, the sled pulling the trailer with my buddy on it, had all that gear fully loaded down, and three people... been a good machine...
At juneau lake.... I think we drilled a little close to shore for water...
Lots of snow down in Seward, this is one of the many berms around our place, notice snowmachine on top for scale.
View of resurrection bay from top of lost lake trail, out towards the gulf of Alaska.
Lot of wind up there that day.
These tracks were about ten minutes old, already almost buried.
Hiking up Mt. Alice, one of the biggest spruce trees I've ever seen. Notice there is a person standing at the bottom of the tree.
Silly Moose. I guess it's a tasty truck.
Now if we could get the damn dog to quit chasing the moose maybe he won't get kicked... AGAIN.
The variations in the weather have been crazy, especially up in the valley. This ice hole was 5" wide when it was drilled, now it is about 15" because of 40 degree weather and water movement.
Some of the ice was allowed to run out from under this puddle from a few warming and cooling cycles, making these levels of freezing.
This is ice, and it looks like waves in water, but these ridges were snowmachine tracks that stay high, and were smoothed out from the melting and refreeze.
These tracks are almost "fossilized" in the ice.
These "cloverfields" are caused when the temperature drops when there is water on top of the ice on a lake. The top layer freezes, and there is still water underneath, the change in temperature makes the ice growth cause a surge upward in the middle of the lake, and the water then drains out from underneath leaving these air pockets.
These surges also make pressure cracks which split all the way through the ice, you can hear them run across the lakes.
There is very little snow, if any, left on top of many valley lakes.
The snow acts as a dam, and filled many areas such as this with water, which then froze.
This is from on top of lazy mountain by palmer, you can see how little snow there is left after the melt.
Me and the girl on top of the mountain overlooking knik arm and thematanuska river.
On the spine at the top, looking back at the matanuska river valley.
That is what winter looks like in south central... more snow is coming I hope... but we will see. Luckily it cooled back off, and has been in the 20's I would like it to get a little colder, but we will see..
