Out for walk across the river...

 Pretty mild day out over the holiday vacation so the family (parents) decided it best to get out for a walk. Always hard to decide which direction to go when there is so much land everywhere!

This fellow was out collecting ice. He had five gallon buckets in his sled, and when he passed  us, all were filled with ice chunks from this lake.

 Melvin was out training his dogs for the Akiak Dash, a 50 mile race that occurs the same weekend of the Kuskokwim 300. He raced, and out of a field of eleven, came in fourth. Melvin is over 60....

 The Atmau-Nepenthe is spending the winter frozen next to several other boats.

 We have Ship Ahoy and the Titanic happening....

 The kids were ready to go in, but not the parents. Bruce and I decided to head out and practice the Garmin GPS we bought last year. We took off along the trail to Bethel to mark waypoints.

 We traveled about half way there marking three different points along the trail. We made sure they were always at the big triangular markers to test our skills.



Needless to say, we need a lot of practice and hope we won't HAVE to use it anytime soon.....