1.19.2010

Skiing the Tanana and Chena Rivers

Dan and I headed out to the Tanana River for a long ski and kite ski. It was around -2oF and Dan is setting up his homemade Alaska flag kite ski.

and he is off. The Tanana River has endless amounts of skiing, but just not enough wind today for his smaller kite.

a cool picture of the kite. i was trying to get a closeup of the flag.


The next day I skied the Chena River from my house. I started out on the slough and that joins the Chena River. The slough pops out at the new Cultural center downtown with plently of room to skate ski, skijor or whatever. We headed toward Ft. Wainwright, the Sonot course and back.

This part of the river is just past the boundary of Ft. Wainwright. The no trespassing signs allow you to stay on the river as long as you do not go on land. The best part about this section of the ski is the culverts are blocked off and Pella can concentrate on keeping up instead of crawling in the culverts!

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