Skiing

[beige_alert]

Saturday seemed like a good day for skiing. It had warmed up to a cozy temperature of roughly -6°C, and snow was falling. I hadn't skied at Pike Lake in a long time, and it's actually quite a nice place. It's also relatively close, which is especially good on a day with snowfall making travel a bit more difficult.



The beach is a bit snow-covered


The ice fishing people were out on the lake. A few days with lows below -18°C presumably thickened the ice, but now the weather was more comfortable.


No one picnicing, for some reason


Here's the GPS track:

Google Earth has a summer photo, the park is more white than green this time of year. You can see that little out-and-back spur where I took off the skis and walked up the steep hill, and climbed the observation tower. It's not so easy climbing that hill in the snow.

Comments

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! So much snow! Ours melted away on Saturday in the first rain we had for a while. I had planned to go out and take pictures of the snow and ice we had on the Neckar, but I was too late *sighs*

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

This (http://www.flickr.com/photos/beigephotos/3162267336/sizes/l/) is one of my favorites from a few weeks ago.

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

Very pretty! Was that where you skated?

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

That's, oh, a few hundred meters from the outdoor ice rink here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/beigephotos/3372549/), which actually has a refrigeration system so it stays frozen when it's a bit above freezing. (It's open from early December until sometime in March when it gets too warm.)

[aryana-filker.livejournal.com]

Wow, snow!
Guess what? Yay. Rain over here. Blrgh.

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Just think, if it was colder over there, all that rain would be snow, and Emden would be just like the upper peninsula of Michigan!