Weather or Not, We Ski

Twelve inches of snow a couple weeks ago, then a week of temperatures in the teens with an additional inch or so each day.  Follow that with rain and you have difficult conditions cross country skiing.  But we did that Thursday trying out our new skis.  Those  poor conditions gave way to above-freezing temperatures through today when 30 mph winds with gusts to 50 mph kept us watching the sky for falling tree limbs and branches and the melting snow.