Saturday, March 22, 2008

Byer's Lake

Alaska is full of public use cabins that folks can rent for a few nights through the park systems. This cabin, at Byer's Lake in Denali State Park, is one of the closer cabins to the road system, only a mile ski in from the parking lot. Some of the cabins are 20-30 miles out making them more conducive to dog sledding or snowmachineing. Last weekend Becky and I along with our friends Amy and Dave decided to get away for a little R&R with our K-9 friends Charlie, Riga and Yukon (Charlie and Riga's friend that lives with Amy and Dave). I'm sure you will be happy to know rest and relaxation was successfully achieved. Saturday was spent skiing around the lake with a nice quiet lunch mid-day by the partially frozen over creek draining the lake. It is hard to tell from the photo but this is a sod roofed log cabin with large burls incorporated into the structure. Just out of the picture to the right is Byer's Lake frozen over and covered with snow. Had the sky been clear we would have been able to view Denali by waking out onto the lake. No view of Denali this time but that was not our goal so no skin off our teeth.