Living the Dream
We have been having some awesome winter weather this month!
Maggie at Boyscout Beach 3/4/11
Last Wednesday I finally got a chance to do something that I have always wanted to do and that was to go camping on a school night! Hurray!
My bff Emily and I headed out Peterson Lake Trail at 4:30 in the evening with about 2 hours of daylight to hike the 3.5 miles out to the cabin.
Oso carried all the dog food. Good boy!
Lou joined us at the cabin later in the evening (he hiked out via headlamp) and we were treated to an awesome northern lights show for our troubles! It was about 20 minutes of dancing lights all across the sky. The lights were bright enought to light up the snow and we could see some purples and greens mixed in with the mostly white lights. This kind of show is unusual for Juneau. We have a lot of cloudy nights which usually obscure any aurorial activity for us. No pictures because I didn’t want to miss anything running inside to get the camera. Sorry!
In the morning I got up at 6:00am, made coffee, packed up, headed out, drank my coffee and gulped a cliff bar as I headed down the trail. Lou and Emily were still in their sleeping bags when I left. I jogged most of the way back down the trail and even with the 40 minute drive and stopping at home for a shower I still made it to work by 10:00am.
I even made some progress on my knitting:
Iknitarod Sock!
I knit a couple inches of this while Lou and Emily built a fire in the woodstove and cooked dinner. Thanks guys!
Sunrise on Peterson Lake Trail
I hope there will be more of these sorts of adventures in my future!
Sounds completely awesome!
Oh, so jealous! I forget how amazing our surroundings are and I need to get out and do more things like this. And I’m jealous you saw the lights. I slept right through ‘em and my jerk friends didn’t text me!
Beautiful photos! Looks amazing, no I can’t wait to get out hiking again.
Peterson lake used to be my favorite hike! I never did it before work, though. You must’ve made good time
sounds like a very nice overnight. and i love that first photo along the beach!
I am officially jealous. And on my birthday, no less. I freaking miss the Aurora Borealis. Looked pretty spectacular from the pictures I have seen on facebook. Dang.
AWESOME. I’m so jealous.