Oosik Classic Ski Race: Talkeetna, Alaska

Beautiful, downtown Talkeetna.

My friends Amy and Kate.

Ray, Clare, and Ashley waxing skis pre-race.

Oosik is a native word for the bone found inside a walrus' penis.

Iditarod: The official start in Willow, AK

This is my co-worker, Melissa, acting silly.

Melissa, her husband Troy, and Tiffany, another co-worker.

My funny co-worker, Sandra, and her Canadian cousins root for the Canadian Iditarod teams.

Nome, Alaska

Don't blink, you'll miss it.

Detroit January, 2011.

Patrick drives us to Canada.

A place only a mother could love...

Josh Olson and Kimmy and I got together for dinner in Mexican town.
Josh was one of my good friends in nursing school. He works at Detroit
Receiving now in the Cardiac ICU. He likes it a lot. It was good to see him.

It's still there.

Andrew comes to visit

Sea lions on a rock.

Resurrection Bay - the bay outside of Seward, Alaska. 2 hrs south of Anchorage on the Kenai.

Fox Island, where we at lunch on our boat tour.

Wildfire near Fairbanks.

Glacier.

Downtown Fairbanks.

Foreign relations, Alaskan style.

The Alaska Pipeline.

I think you know these two.

No thank you.

Summer Summer Time

Views from the top of Bird Ridge along Turnagain Arm.

Sitka, Meghan's dog, taking a nap on the guest bed. Bad dog!

Waterfall campground near Glenn Allen.

I have no idea who these people are. They invited us over to their campsite in Talkeetna and we took pictures with them. Crazy kids.

Ski for Women

Co-workers, Arika, from beautiful Gallatin, TN, Melissa, and Betsy.

It's hard to ski dressed like a potato head.