Ice Kayaking

This time of year usually constitutes dirty snowmelt, puddles, muddy fields, and brown grass.  There rarely is anything nice about break-up, other than looking forward to summer.  My favorite part however, and the one awesome thing about this time of year, is ice breaking.  There’s like a two to three day window when the lake has just opened up but before all the ice is gone when you can go kayaking and feel like Shackleton on the Endurance maneuvering through the Antarctic ice pack.  So here are some pictures of our Alaska version of that great voyage.

Soaking up the sun!

This was not planned....

11:00 and it's still light out!