I still haven't recovered the photos from my first weekend in Valdez. We actually went to the same spot this past Friday but I was too busy focusing on powder skiing and skinning to take pictures. (I was also afraid that I would break the camera on one of several falls.) I've decided that the full Valdez experience needed to include a nice virus so I'm too tired to detail everything but I figured some pictures were long overdue.
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| My view walking to the clinic (when the sun is up at least). |
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| The first storm totaled about 4 feet of snow. It was still snowing while we were out, turning everything into a whitewashed canvas. |
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| Stepping off the snow-machine trail, I post-holed to my thighs. With snowshoes. And I wasn't nearly to the ground yet. (Sorry - clearly the lens was snowy.) |
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| After the storms, we had a beautiful sunrise. It was about 9am, so we were all watching from the clinic. |
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| Yesterday we went to Worthington Glacier to practice powder skiing a bit more. It was cold but the clear blue skies were unbeatable. Some friends were snow-machining tracks for us. Otherwise it would have taken hours to slog through nearly 6 feet of powder. |
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| Worthington Glacier |
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| It doesn't look like much, but we skinned to the ridgeline and skied (or in my case, face-planted) our way down. |
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| I thought the lone pine was intriguing. In typical Valdez winters, all the alders in the foreground are buried by this time of year. |
