2012 State Tournament in Homer

The Squirt C State Tournament was held in Homer this last weekend. The Fairbanks Phantoms worked their way through the Anchorage Comets (1-1), Palmer Pioneers (8-3) and South Anchorage Moose (8-0) in the preliminaries to face the Eagle River Mustangs in the semi finals. With a 4-3 win the Phantoms moved ahead to face the Comets again in the finals. This time the Comets were victorious and took the State Trophy back to Anchorage. A tough loss for our players, but they should be proud to be the 2nd place champions in the state.

Pix from the Tournament....Travis is #10 

 

Happy Dance when they advanced to semifinals

Congratulating the Champions - Anchorage Comets

We stayed out at Lands End

Hockey Players playing football

Chasing down a Sea Otter

End of Tournament Bonfire

Spring Break

We just came back from the cabin yesterday afternoon. It was a beautiful long weekend out there and you would think I would be totally exhausted, but for some reason it is 5:30am and I can't sleep. So I'll post some pictures instead.

Mike on Dune Lake trail

Looking towards Teklanika River

Some open water just upriver from the cabin

T with one of his lynx snares

Northern Lights March 16

First winter cabin run of the season

Finally a free and warm weekend to head into the cabin!

Travis has an old Ski-Doo Tundra and the seat was in pretty bad shape. We surprised him with an early birthday present by getting it recovered and customized.



T with new seat for Butterbee



Early birthday present!

The run into the cabin was quite pleasant, sunny and temps right around 0. The kids are becoming driving pros, they were able to keep up with us just fine (of course they weren't pulling cargo sleds behind them). The toughest part was where we had to break trail from the main trail down to the cabin. The Black Hornet ran great though and plowed right through the drifts....great fun!

T talking to Aunt Jenni on speakerphone about his bday lego wish list

Ski-Doo fleet at the cabin

We also got to enjoy the new propane lights Mike and our buddy Tim installed in the fall, they look great and work fantastic!

Sunday was a beautiful sunny day so we played around a bunch on the river with the kids before we had to leave for town. Mike & Travis checked their lynx sets too, but no luck yet....maybe NEXT weekend.

P on Red Racer

T on Butterbee

  We saw a moose and a huge great gray owl on the drive out....NEAT!

This is where I would rather be right now....