Good Monday morning to you, friends! How were your weekends, in reading and not-reading? As you can see, it was a bit of a slow reading weekend… and week… around here. Mid-week I finished up Scott’s Last Expedition – actually staying up late to finish it. It was an interesting read for sure, although more about weather and equipment than I wanted to read for 472 pages (makes sense though, as those were Captain Scott’s primary considerations throughout his expedition – and tragically, both failed him). After finishing with Scott and friends, I wanted to take another book off my pre-Antarctica pile, but something rather slimmer. So I picked up Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Three Letters From the Andes, which clocks in at a very manageable 103 (or thereabouts) pages of text. This is actually about a trip to Peru, so not the part of the Andes I’ll be seeing during the Patagonia leg of my trip – but still fun to read in advance of my first visit to South America. But I have been so busy and distracted that I just haven’t had time to sit down with it and I’m still just midway through after barely reading at all over the weekend. I’ll finish it tonight though, and then be on to whatever comes next – to be determined.

Another Sunday, another ski day! We have finally had some decently cold weather, so our home mountain was able to make snow and the conditions were good for the first time all winter. Nugget and I made the most of it, skiing 23 runs mostly on the back side of the mountain. Approximately 50% of them were on a trail that Nugget and his friends call “mogul jungle” and my legs are feeling it today.

What are you reading this week?