No doubt where you are it’s time to get the garden in and you’ve already had your first backyard barbeque. Well summer comes a bit slower to the north and up here folks are getting in some spring skiing before the big melt.
Here’s short clip I took just last week off the north slope of a ridge above Eagle River. A young couple was taking advantage of the great snow conditions for an easy ski down.
One of the things I love about Alaska is that you can get to a place like this in less than an hour from town. The trail head is a 10 minutes drive and then to get to where this is shot takes about an hour of hiking depending on conditions.
Yeah life is grand.
And just when you think it can’t possible snow again this season… it does. Just a few days ago we got a big snow fall. Went up into the hills for my evening hike and found that there was 4 inches of fresh white stuff on the ground. Whoa.
There were places where the snow was only a few inches deep, but there were also spots where someone (sans snowshoes) had postholed thigh deep!
But don’t worry, if you’re heading to Alaska for a summer trip it will all be gone by the time you get here. No really, it will 
