We've been getting out & about, but we haven't taken many pictures lately...
We did get another ski weekend in before the meltdown started. We lift-serve skied at Timberline in WV one day, using our telemark skis for most of the day before switching to our locked-heel downhill skis. There's nothing like telemark skiing to get the ol' quads fired-up (and knees for that matter!). It's always gratifying to be able to spin off a bunch of linked tele turns.
The next day we repeated the same uphill, cross-country ski that we did the previous weekend, starting at the base of Canaan Valley and climbing to the top of Weiss Knob via the pipeline. I believe this is just over 1000' feet of vertical. The snow was consolidated this time, so we were able to cruise the whole way. It felt great to keep a steady pace, just comfortably out of breath.
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This past weekend we hiked up Signal Knob in the Elizabeth Furnace area of the GW National Forest. The sleet & ice from the previous day made for a fairy-land of ice covered trees, which of course melted as we hiked along. It was really cool to have small, drippy ice chunks falling all around us on the warm sunny side of the mountain. On the shady side, and as we climbed higher, it was still frozen solid -- in the trees and on the ground. We were glad to have our hiking poles (and bummed the camera had been left in the car).
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Snow predictions in WV for this week, so maybe we'll get some more skiing in? Stay tuned...
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