Continuing vacation reports: part the whatever

Skied over to the Colby campus yesterday to do some cross-country. It was cold enough that there was enough residual snow on the sidewalks and road margins that it was almost possible to ski the whole way between my brother's house and the trailhead. Note that skiing in a foot and a half of fresh powder is quite a different experience than on groomed tracks. Equally fun, but quite different. Did a certain amount of breaking trail then took a couple loops on the existing tracks. I got over there again today in the afternoon (the morning having been spent raking snow off my parents' roof). They still haven't groomed the trails, but several more loops have been pioneered, and only the tracks along the open meadow had been mostly filled in by drifts. The rest of the time has been filled in with Settlers of Catan, as usual. Met the middle brother's new girlfriend last night. She seems to be amused by us, which is probably the best response to have.