The red flag in the middle of the map is Lake Louise. It is about a 3.5 hour drive northeast from Anchorage in the winter.

This is the The Point Lodge, where we stayed. I highly recommend it. We picked this place off the internet and got lucky. A couple from Idaho just bought the lodge in August and they are very friendly and excited to welcome all their guests. It is th

This is how you get around in rural Alaska. The 'locals' were always stopping by the lodge to socialize while their kids played out on the skating rink (cleared on the lake) or the sledding hill. Most of these people don't live here year-round, they liv

After we arrived on Friday afternoon, we wanted to get in a short ski before it got dark. Unsure of the conditions, grabbed our classic gear and headed out onto the lake. Turns out the lake would have been beautiful skating. The snow had been windblown

The next morning we got up at 8, had a leisurely breakfast, then packed up for a long ski - and we were still out in time to see the sun come up! Winter in Alaska - sunrise at 10 AM.

On Saturday we used our skate gear - much faster.

[Click map to make it bigger] I had big ambitions for our Saturday ski. I wanted to make it across Lake Louise, Lake Susitna, and Lake Tyone. The red line is our route. Linda and I skied together across Louise, then split up on the far side of the big

This is a narrow channel between a couple of islands.

Caribou tracks on the lake. When we awoke on Sunday, a blizzard had moved in. The wind was howling and the snow was piling up (not pictured). We went for a two-hour ski on a snowmobile trail (purple line on the previous map). It was quite nice in the