I hear it's spring...

Everybody seems to be raving about spring lately, and I'm just happy we broke the many nights of -25. But hey, those things happen in March up here!!  And this snow is easily going to be around well into mid-April. However, I am eager to get to spring mode, as much as I love the snow, I have stuff to finish up on this cabin this summer. And I know a lot of stuff is hiding UNDER the many feet of snow. It's like Christmas with the spring melt, I can't wait!

But the great thing is:

is that the highways people have started doing the "spring shoulder cleaning" - when they do a major push to get the snow right off the shoulders.  With the amount of snow we've had this year,  and with my commute, I think YG hwys has done an amazing job of keeping up with it. Thanks from us who live in the boonies!!! :)

And you know what clear shoulders mean?? A hint... after it melts the sweepers come out and clear the gravel out... and that means...

Time to obsess about cycling! This is Jon on the race down at Marsh Lake last August.

And Laura after the final leg 8 at the Kluane International Bike Relay two years ago:

I think she was tired.

Here's Katrina from the team, Laura (upright now, we offered her beer and that helped her become vertical) and Heather from the team. Steph was our support person and is always the person with the best stocked truck! (booze, food, morphine, you name it!)

Steph at the campground - now that's not water in that Nalgene is it??!! Oh I hope we have many summer days like that one this summer... HOT (ok, warmish) and DRY (ok, dryish - I'll just be happy with no constant rain! Especially when mom & dad make their return trip up here in late summer. No rain means I can put them to work outside)

Our bike team is already solid and we can't even sign up yet. Everyone's bikes are in for tune-ups, as we eagerly anticipate the first road ride. The hwys out by my place are still quite snowy so it'll be a few weeks I'm sure. But!  We are wayyyy ahead of the game this year and are planning an early long team road ride by the first weekend of May. Let's hope Mother Nature makes that somewhat pleasant for us. If not, all the winter gear won't be too far away.

But... back to reality. This is where we stand right now in mid-March!