So in addition to dogsledding, there are some other ways to cut up nice powdery trails through the woods. For this adventure, we headed to Girdwood and joined a snowmobile tour...machines, helmets provided (think they had extra warm gloves and jackets for the tourists who might not be packing snowpants and jackets). We took an off shoot road, which I think was an old mining road, out into the boonies. And the powder out there was AMAZING!
Again, there are plenty of different tours in different locations, but this is the one we grabbed. They had another one that goes out on a lake around some glacial...bergs? It looked pretty cool too, but t was not being offered on this particular day.
Looks like sitting on top of the clouds...but nope, thats all fluffy white stuff. Guess it's a snowmobiler's heaven.
The first pass we were led down the trail, and given a bit of an idea of what the bigger loop looked like...where there were some wide open spaces to cut into the powder, where the slopes were, dips and hills, and those blissful straight stretches for going all out on the throttle later.
It was the second part I enjoyed....lettting the group get a head and then going faster that I would have been able to in the line :) It had been years since I last rode a snowmachine, but, it came back quickly and it was just as much fun as I remembered.
After about an hour we parked the machines and stopped at a musher's cabin....they had a smoker going making hot dogs and hot cocoa, and some marshmallows handy for toasting at the open fire waiting for us.
Is there ever a time when a bonfire happens and it isn't a great day? No, I didn't think so either.
Just another great way to spend a day in Alaska.
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