An early morning avalanche on Thursday morning closed all land access to Anchorage. I dropped Jon off at the high school about 9:10am to head up on a school bus with his basketball team for a couple games in Anchorage. Fifteen minutes later I received a phone call from him telling me the trip was cancelled due to the massive avalanche. As far as we know, no one was hurt. They closed the roads on Friday and spent the day blasting the snow off the mountains in various areas along the mountains. This creates avalanches, which is their goal. The purpose is to get some of that snow down to prevent future avalanches when the roads are open.
We had conferences Thursday and Friday and I was going to be the only member of the 7th grade team there due to basketball, but the avalanche allowed two of my 7th grade team members to be there with me after all. It's much less pressure when you have a team of co-workers to support you.
We got out for a gorgeous ski on Saturday. The temp was 18 degrees with no wind! On Sunday we went to Tim Sandahl's house (the 7th grade language arts teacher) for the Superbowl. We ate a lot of great finger food!
sunrise- 9:10am
sunset- 5:29pm
daylength- 8 hrs. 19 min.
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