Nordic Day

With all the new snow, the girls wanted to go skiing.  I'd left my Nordic gear in Beaver, so we had to go there to get it.  Heading north gave us the option of Eagle Point—which is free on Sundays.  In the event, they picked the back country over the resort, so we parked at the potty in Merchant Valley and went up Three Creeks to the reservoir.  The snow was untracked the whole way up—nice, soft mid-winter snow.  I broke the trail and, by the time both the girls had come up, it was pretty well packed.  We stopped at the top for lunch.  By the time we were done, the sun had popped out.  The sun is so strong at this time of year that it immediately turned the snow to slop.  We hustled to start back.  I re-waxed the skis and we got on the trail.  It was OK.  If you kept moving you wouldn't stick.  But there were some pretty gloppy spots.  It was better at the bottom where the sun hadn't worked on it so much.  We made it back to the parking lot by 1430.