Washing Raisins: Ride Down to Lucerne

After a night of snow, we awoke Friday to a beautiful day (we have so many of these days here). It was cold and vividly bright blue sun.

Art was scheduled to drive the bus down to meet the boat that day so I decided to come along for a ride in order to really enjoy the views of this fantastic day.

I sat right behind the driver's with my camera ready. The entire 11 miles down to the road was picture perfect. Snowy trees, mountains and blue sky the entire way. The 5 inches of fresh snow had not been plowed yet and so we were the first to make a mark in the snow that day. Well...

..... nearly the first. We followed a solitary track of a coyote for a few miles down the road until it decided to venture back into the woods. Farther down the road we came upon tracks of what I swear were a bear. Spring has really tried to rise out of the snow early this year and I thing that a few bear may have awakened.

After about 40 minutes of slipping and sliding around corners, we arrived at Lucerne, where Art backed the bus onto the dock to await the boat. We had a few students from Minnesota on board and one of them in her excitement to take pictures, dropped her camera into the lake. Art dug around under the "A Frame" cabin and found some wire and cord and a hook and managed to fish the soggy camera out. He was the hero of the day.