A cure for bad news

For an old lefty like me, the last couple of weeks have been brutal and downright depressing!

• Massachusetts Senate election. Teddy must be outraged looking on from his heavenly abode.
• As a result of the above, healthcare legislation is foundering on the rocks, and probably doomed.
• Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend limitless millions from their own coffers in campaign donations.
• Obama and democrats losing support in the polls.

I could go on, but you get the picture. I decided I just needed to get away from all of it for a while, so we went up to our place at Tahoe Donner on Thursday afternoon and skied at Squaw Valley on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Tons of snow and great skiing even though it was sometimes snowing and windy.

On Saturday afternoon, after we got back from Squaw, I took my dog Spenser out for some snowshoeing. The snow was powder and about 4-5 feet deep. Those of you who only know snowshoeing from afar probably think that once you have your snowshoes on, you just float across the snow with little effort. Wrong! You sink until the powder compresses enough to keep you from “post holing”, but then you have to lift your back shoe out for the next step and literally plow on. It’s great exercise. We busted a trail for about a quarter mile or so and then returned in our own track which is easy-going and fast. (BTW, snowshoe people just LOVE to find each other’s tracks and then use them to avoid having to bust their own trail).

Anyway here is a photo of our track taken about midway on our return trek looking toward where we started. Be sure to double-click to blow it up.

Back in “the world” and not liking it any better.

~ Peace out, Tom