Since Feb 3rd

We’ve been skiing a lot.

We’ve been going back to Sunapee. It’s an easy drive and the skiing is great.

We managed some “fluff” one day. We got about 4″ of fresh snow over night, and it was great. It was also a little rough. Though the temps were in the 30’s the wind was blowing hard and the snow was coming down sideways. The difference between the top of the mountain and the bottom was significant. Eventually the snow became sleet and was freezing on our jackets and goggles. By that time it was time to go home.

Tomorrow is likely our last day skiing this season.

In early February we did a submission only Jiu Jitsu tournament. The girls did really well. Lauren won both of her matches. They took forever, but she got the submissions. Though the organizers messed up Abigail’s bracket, she got some matches in and did really well too.

The frozen ponds made for some interesting walks to school this winter.

In general I wouldn’t have considered it that much colder here for the winter (at least this winter) than what we’d experience in PA, but the ponds and lakes around here do remain more frozen more often than what we had in PA.

The girls have been climbing a ton.

For winter break (they get a whole week off in February) they did the climbing camp again (like they did at Christmas). They loved it.

For whatever reason they decided to dress up the last day. They chose this.

Managed to get back to the ADK in February for some ice climbing. It’s going to be really hard not to get out more next year considering I’m only 4 hours away.

I lead a route in the north Pitchoff area called Tendonitis. It was pretty fun. There’s lots of stuff in the north Pitchoff area we’d like to try again.

– b