Today the adventure took us into the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area...and as expected the scenery was fantastic going on and on for miles. We traveled about 20 miles, and the legs could use some juice. Guess I'm still searching for a good stride. The trails today were a bit more adventurous with a lot of up and down hill stuff on the portages in between lakes. I was able to get some "air" coming off a small jump near the bottom of one hill, and of course, crashed gracefully into the snow. Observed a lot of wolf tracks, scat, and kills along our journey, active beaver lodges, screaming ravens, and moose tracks.
I hauled my butt back up again and kept on moving. My crew seems to be loving it more by the day and are ready to get jiggy tomorrow, and want even more danger. One loose sled today as two of the participants slipped of the sled. Trying to jump on a moving sled whipping by with ski's on is no easy task, but a desperate lunge and being dragged a short way was the ticket to stopping it. The melt seems to be on up here as there are many bare spots on southern facing trails and the snow pack is withering away. I'm sure winter hasn't had its last epicosity yet, I am confident the cold and snow will be back soon.
The real entertainment came after dinner tonight. Another group of 4 woman in their 45-60's range is up here for "girls getaway". They call themselves the sno bitches. The sno bitches have come equipped with about 10 bottles of booze, wine, and plenty of mixers. The other guides I'm partnering with is getting married in a few weeks and they caught wind of this. So they proceeded to throw a bachelor party in his honor. These are some wild woman. We walked into their cabin to find bra's, panties, and chains hanging on a stuffed deer, h'orderves shaped like penini's and vaja's, and of course a cake (made of oranges, pancakes, and crushed granola) in the shape of a naked woman. These are some fun ladies, and boy did they come to party. They even showed me their......................yeah not what you think! Their flasks they've been bringing on the trails. So tonight we partied like it was 1999 (actually the woman did, this guy gets up too early to party these days). Most definitely an entertaining night.
Today is my Dad's birthday so a shout out...Happy Birthday Fasha...hope your day was good. Love ya Fasha.
This guy needs to study now, so back again tomorrow.
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