more adventure here!

Visit the other blog i'm working on with staff from Maine Sport Outfitters, my place of employment, called Maine Sport Adventures! this blog will be a chronicle of outdoor exploits undertaken by the staff at the store, hoping to showcase our piles and piles of collected experience and interests. it's pretty new yet, but you should check it out here!

yeah!

-josh

xc skiing weekend!

Well, my weekend, anyway. tuesday and thursday of this past week played out as fantastic days for xc skiing, and i intended to take advantage of that as much as possible! tuesday, Jessica and i went to a xc ski area/4H campground called Tanglewood in the lincolnville area for a 4 mile loop through the woods. a little iced over from the winds that we had the previous sunday, but still a lovely day.

Wednesday, i spent the morning breaking trail and exploring the snowmobile network around thorndike, dodging sleds when necessary, and then joined my brother, Jason for more exploration in the farmland around Moody Mountain. through orchards, down a frozen stream bed, and over a saddle between the peaks, finally ending up skiing down the icy shoulder of a dirt access road back to the main road. 

looking north, towards the Moody Mountain ridge..

.. and south towards Camden Hills, Bald and Ragged mtns.

Thursday, jessica and i had plans to head to Mt Desert Isle to ski the carriage roads in Acadia, but were thwarted by high winds and snow. i was pretty pooped from the day before, so i was fine with taking it easy as our weekend came to a close..

-josh

missouri tribute

here is a recent painting i'd done as a late christmas present for my aunt. eastern bluebird and hawthorn, missouri state bird and flower, respectively.

-josh