Problem solved

I think having a blog helps me in more ways than just improving my computer skills and giving me a reason to write. It turns out that my husband reads my blog and he's a problem solver. (I'm more of a problem definer.) When he read about my ski trail woes, he suggested a solution. We should snowshoe the trail. I was a little skeptical, but then I remembered that we had developed a new trail for me the year the loggers obliterated it. (I do ski partially on logging roads, so I had to cut them some slack on that one.) Don started out on the wider bear paws. I followed on longer, thinner snowshoes. Bear ran back and forth trying to keep the party together. We really stomped it down at first till we started to tire. It's harder work than skiing. Skiing the trail takes about an hour. We spent two hours stomping it down. But it really helped. Temp was in the upper twenties and it was misting. Not gorgeous conditions, but it softened the snow and then when it got colder at night, froze it up again. The next day when we tried skiing it. it was fine. Now if we don't get a really big snow I won't complain for awhile.