On Friday evening, we made our way to the property for the night. We found out that the railroad project has almost managed to completely annihilate the hill on the western boundary of our property. We spent a few minutes at the top of the hill watching the excavator pour bucket after bucket of mud slurry soup into each dump truck.
I think maybe they'd have preferred the white fluffy stuff over the rain that fell these last few weeks. The railroad project trucks and equipment have been using the road and that just stirred up all the hard packed mud. It was one nasty muddy mess driving the last mile of gravel into the property.
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| The pile of birch logs |
We had hoped to find some wood to salvage while we were out there. Sure enough, there was another stack of birch logs, so we filled the truck again and made our way back to the house.
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| Different Perspective: Bodenburg Butte in front of Pioneer Peak |
On Sunday, Bryant and I explored the Matanuska River on the fat bikes, which is another glacier fed river near Palmer, but it has completely different character than the Knik River that is right out the backdoor. I saw all my familiar scenery, but from a different perspective. It was pretty cool seeing what the bikes can do on the river terrain.
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| A bald eagle with Lazy Mountain in the background. |
Bryant put together a short video of us playing around with the bikes on the rivers. If you're interested, here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-imE18diw6U&feature=youtu.be
