Ski Report for Wed. Jan. 28 
By Mossy
Minus 12 degrees at Birch Hill today.  Lots of bright sun, blue skies, and white frosting
on the trees.  Gail, Cathy, and I (Mossy) skied the higher ups:  Relay, Tower, Blue Loop,
and then over to the Warm Up loop.  We noted the temperature was still minus 12 degrees
on top of Tower even though it was higher than the stadium.  But, at least we were warmed 
up internally by then.  We had a nice visit afterwards with two types of fresh home baked
goods that only had to be split between 3 people.  (Hee Hee)

I hope to be back next week.  Chris
Thanks to Cathy E. for the LOL SKI REPORT 

Jan. 21, 2015
I arrived early since I had to wax my skis for this cooler weather.  I got 4 layers of green on and headed upstairs.  12:50pm and no one around.  I changed into my ski clothes and then checked to see if anyone showed.  There was Sandy! She was wondering if she was in the right building and I assured her she was.  I didn't visit long with her because I was starting to overheat and wanted to get outside to cool down a little.

I skied Relay and stopped at the top of the Stadium and here comes Nan.  She reported that Peg B., Aurora and Betsy S. were upstairs w/ Sandy when she headed out.  We decided to ski the Relay thinking we would see the others soon.  We got back to the Stadium & chatted about what trails we wanted to ski, decided on White Bear and after a few more minutes decided the others would be skiing together so we headed down the Stadium to White Cub.  We had a fresh dusting of snow that made conditions very s-l-o-w...better to look around and take in the beautiful frost on the trees!
Nan & I decided that it was such a beautiful day that we should do the whole White Bear.  Skiing WB reminded me of an old fashioned Christmas card picture taken in a forest of gray trees lightly covered in white sparkly frost w/ a small dab of brightness from our ski jackets.  It made us so happy to see just how beautiful and quiet White Bear is AND to have it all to ourselves!  We had a lovely ski and were so happy just to be out enjoying the day and very thankful for the new slight covering of snow!
Meanwhile Peg, Aurora, Sandy and Betsy were enjoying the upper trails of Relay, Outhouse and Blue Loop and catching up on their winter adventures.

Note from Chris--we are slowly making our way north to colder weather.  Went to Vale and Breckenridge today. Got to wear a hat, jacket, and gloves.  Still not sure if we will be ready for the -40 we are seeing in the forecast for Fairbanks next week when we return.  Burr!  See you soon.  Chris
Looking forward to someone sending me a LOL ski report for this week so I can post it.  Come on ladies you know you had a good time skiing and would love to share it.  Email me a short note about Monday and Wednesday ski for this week.  Thanks so much, Chris
Monday Ski Fun by Peggy

Last night I arrived at Birch Hill at 5:45pm and there were only 4 cars there... None of them were LOL...
I checked the Big building... No one... I checked the little building, no one.... :-(
I had checked the temp just prior to leaving work and it read -9.4F so I figured at least Some of the LOL's would
be there?!  (it was Really Cold down here in town, like -25F or -19F depending where you were) I was not really too
enthusiastic to be out skiing in the cold, but when it read Above -16F, I felt obligated to go.  I asked a few strangers who drove up, if they were there for LOL
and they looked at me weirdly and just said no....  there were several folks who drove up ... all said No.... ???

I called Kim and she was on her way up, but she was not very enthusiastic either.... we were talking ourselves out of
it as she was driving up... I had not even has a chance to change yet and my skis needed to be waxed, as did hers...
As we were talking, Carol K and her husband Don drove up.  I asked Carol if she was there for LOL and she said Yes.

Kim showed up and so there were 3 of us... we all went to the little building and I went to change and when I came out
there was Karri !  So we all waxed our skis and talked about how maybe we didn't
really want to be there and how the -7F sign was lying and how it felt much colder... both Karri and Kim said their cars
showed it to be -13 and -19 respectively.....

Sooooooooo, grumble, laugh, sigh..... off the 3 of us went....  Carol K suggested we go UP Tower to get warm, so we did!
But somewhere before the final big downhill, I lost control of my right leg and wiped Carol K out of the tracks.... but she jumped back up and off we went again!
At the bottom of Tower, we turned and did Roller Coaster/ Medivac (Carol and Karri did Medivac and Kim and I did Roller Coaster)....  Next we did the two little tiny loops off the stadium (names??) and then did then went down the tiny hill that
leads to White Bear extension?  ..... we skied down that and went right...  which led back up to the stadium.

We were going to then do the Roller Coaster/Medivac again (switching places) but Carol K noticed her head lamp was gone??!  We decided it must be up where she fell, so we took off up Tower Direct then went backwards on Tower and found her head lamp, sitting in the middle of trail!  YEA!!! :-)   We continued down the wrong way on Tower and ended up
near Roller Coaster again, so we switched it up and did it!  :-)  

By then we were at 4.5 miles.... we decided to make it 5, so we did the two tiny loops off the stadium again and then went
down the tiny hill to that leads to the White Bear extension and somehow we ended up doing a loop that completed the WBE and brought us back up to the stadium! We got back to the warm up hut and it was 5.16 miles total!!
Plus we were ALL HAPPY we had stuck it out and skied!!! :-)


So there you have it in a Nut shell (emphasis on NUT!) ;-)

--Peggy :-)

WEDNESDAY SKI FUN
Nan, Diane O.,Cathy E. Carol K., Gail, Mossy, Betsy, Lynn and Kayiu classic skied.  Johnna
skated.

CONGRATS a to Carol K., for completing ALL the trails at Birch Hill January 2 ,2015😃

Remember it's usually warmer up in the hills.  Be sure to come up out of the cold and SKI.  LOL meet and ski to -15.

Put another layer on and have FUN.  Chris

WELCOME TO 2105


HAPPY NEW YEAR
Check back next week for the LOL Ski Happenings report.

Chris