Cannonsburg Ski

Mid-January graced west Michigan with a good amount of snow after an early January melt (which even provided 60-degree temps for a Monday evening walk across town!).

While our beautiful snow is now melting (I'm writing this on a rainy Monday night), we had a good foot and a half of the white stuff on Saturday, and a couple of inches of it were fresh. That was a good thing, because Matt Hahnfeld was leading a cross-country ski outing for the Western Michigan Chapter of the North Country Trail Association at Cannonsburg State Game Area.

It was a good event in the sense that all six who showed up were competent skiers. This allowed us to ski about nine miles in three hours. Temps stayed in the 20's, so conditions were about perfect.

Here's a video of the group (minus me and Hahnfeld) coming down a hill. Some were daring enough to ski right across the footbridge. The first skier is Georgia. Let's just say she's "retired." A real inspiration!