Finally! A Good Snow!
Over a foot of snow fell on the north country last weekend, much to the delight of snowmobilers and skiers. It was one of the first good lake effect snows we have gotten thus far this year. We went skiing through the woods yesterday and we couldn't have asked for much better conditions. [U.P. trail reports]
We talked with several snomobilers on Sunday and everyone had nothing but positive things to say. We are really starting to pile up a bit of snow. Still not to the point where one may feel comfortable riding off-trail very much, but we're getting there. You can see the improvement on the NOHRSC Interactive Snow Information site.
Now, in the "You Can't Make this Stuff Up" category - Saturday afternoon we are sitting around not doing much, I'm down looking out the front door and out the corner of my eye I catch some movement heading south down the road. I quickly realize that we have a dog team, 14 dogs long, and musher coming down the road at a pretty good clip. Usually an odd occurrence, but we've seen it a couple times before when there's a lot of snow on the road.
Well, instead of going by the house and on down the road, the lead dogs decided to turn right into the yard and up the driveway. I sort of thought they'd follow the drive and head down to the lake. Not so - these dogs had another plan. Straight ahead they came running right next to the house as if across the yard and out to the lake they'd go. NOT!! When the dogs got to the lakeside of the house, for whatever reason, the two lead dogs decided to jump up three feet and pull all the other dogs up onto our deck. The musher was finally able to get his brake set, just before he too was coming up on the deck.
These aren't the dogs. Who had time to grab a camera. But can you imagine this coming up your deck? Photo by AlaskaDude.
So imagine now we have 11 of the 14 dogs right up on our deck getting more and more tangled up with themselves and all the timbers we have on the deck. What a mess. Luckily, the dogs where very well behaved and the wife of the musher showed up with the dog trailer. One by one we disconnected the dogs and put them in the trailer. Nothing hurt but one mushers ego.
You may ask, "what was Zeta's reaction to this?" She was all excited about friends coming to visit. Knowing her running around all these dogs was not something we wanted to deal, with we left her in the house. Two minutes later I'm outside and hearing her bark, I look in the house to see where she is, and discover her standing on the top of the dining room table taking this whole craziness in. All during another wonderful day at Deer Park Lodge. Zeta, seen above on her deck, in a calmer moment.
Now that we have good snow (and the dogs are off the deck) check out our calendar. We have several openings throughout the next couple of weeks, and it looks like it could be nice. We'd love to have you staying with us.
