Porkies Yurt Adventure, part 2

Our story picks back up here...

After breakfast, the pack headed out for a BIG ski.

Hey! I almost caught a vole.
But he was wiley and got away.

We checked out the trail to Lost Creek Yurt. It was pretty!

We meet yurt dwellers heading back out.
I got to see some kids!  I love kids.

We had lunch at the Lost Creek yurt.

This is a narrow trail and they rub trees with
their Pisten Bully tracks.

Their Bully is quite old and losing some oil!

Didn't need the flags today....it was groomed
all the way to the yurt!  We skied about 10 miles today.

I continued my hunting back at our yurt.
I had an excellent vantage point to spot squirrels.

Spaghetti! I didn't get any, as usual.
Although, I did get dish duty - I didn't mind.

The next morning, we got ready to head out for more adventure.

Back country romping was great!

So was hunting.

And bounding.

This little balsam was sporting a nifty necklace.

Tea time, near Union Spring.

We love this hemlock forest.

Let's go!

The old fallen tree roots look artsy in the winter.

The beaver dam crossing at Union Spring.

We made it to our lunch stop, our favorite Cross Cut Cabin.

Later, we went to see the East Vista.
That's Lake Superior on the left.

It was a perfect place for a snow bath.
I recommend them, ya know.

Back at camp, Arly got out a yummy snack.
This is from Sandy's home town of Ely, MN.

I continued my hunting.

I held this squirrel at bay for quite a long time.

OK, I guess the setting sun means it's time to
let the squirrels rest.

We had such a nice ski today. Another perfect Porkies day.

The morning sun as seen through our yurt's door.

Bye bye, Little Union River yurt!

At least I got to meet Paul, the most friendly park employee around.
I love him!

We're off!

We started out on a back country route.

It was a little rough - but no match for the pulk.

Then we came down South Boundary Road -
a snowmobile trail in the winter.

Now we're back on the ski trail.

And the last little trail to the park HQ.

We made it! Maybe you can join us next year?

Porkies Yurt Adventure 2015

Ya! We finally got to go on our long awaited spring camping trip.  We did this last year and here you can read about that adventure.

Looks like adventure gear is being loaded.   I best stay close by.

We stopped on the shore, just before the Porkies

Looks like it's snowing out on the lake!

Oh dear, now I'm getting my pack put on.

We're off!  We left the car at the headquarters parking lot.

We bumped into friendly skiers right off.  Do you need a pulk sled?
They had stayed at the yurt we're heading to.

Change from last year's trip is our new pulk!
That's the sled.

My pack says the new pulk is working great!
They assembled it with the help of Ski Pulk.com.

But they are still slow on the uphill sections

They think its got about 80lbs in it.
They keep forgetting to buy a scale.

Here we turn off of the main trail and head to the yurt.

It's about a 3 mile ski in.

I helped set up camp.

Home sweet home! For 4 days at least.

I  had to lead her to the water.

No one had walked down here in a while. It was deep!

Arly got a hole broken open.

Kinda hard to fill the bag in the small hole...

...so some scooping was in order.

Since I didn't manage to catch any wild game,
 I had to settle for lame kibble.

Later, we went on a short adventure ski. We found a quinzee!

I wonder if kids had stayed here?

We went to visit at the Union River 8 Bunk
but no-one was home.

We finished the day off with back-country bounding.

My pack is sampling boxed wine.
They think bottles are too heavy, even in the pulk.

It didn't take long for me to wind down.

Next morning - cereal with nido (whole dried milk)

I love to camp!

Day 2 post to continue...