by andrea on Jan.17, 2008, under Uncategorized
Having returned from a wonderful trip to Canada for Christmas we were greated with a busy schedule upon our return. Although it was a bit of a shock after relaxin’ for about 2 weeks the pace is welcomed. It is exciting to have groups of people coming through again. There are more things to do and more people to meet.
Presently, Luke is out on a five day backcountry skiing trip. A group of students from Montreat College in North Carolina flew in Monday and is now on that trip. Some of them have never experienced this type of cold; and it has actually been quite cold here lately. It is always neat to be able to take people out on one of their first time experiences. It should be a good time for them of learning and getting to know each other.
The rest of us have been here at camp preparing for another group of college students to come down. The Explore students from Prairie Bible Colllege will be here tommorrow. A week after they arrive we will be starting the winter skills portion of their time here. We will be teaching backcountry skiing, mountaineering, and winter camping. We have been looking forward to the upcoming skills time for a while. The snow conditions up on Siegel Pass have been wonderful which means good skiing but a bad road. We travel in 6×6 army trucks up a 12 mile logging road every morning during the skills time. This trip can take anywhere from 2-4 hours. Although we have been working on the road the large amounts of snow has put our travel times in the four hour range and the roads have attempted to claim our trucks. There has been a lot of shoveling going on in attempts to get trucks unstuck and make the road better. We are crossing our fingers and hoping that all goes well on our drives up with the students; but we shall see. We might have to make shoveling a new winter skill 
The ski conditions are great though and there is a lot of fun and learning to be had in the coming weeks!
