| Anchoring during a snow storm. It was a little too early in the season for good fishing, but we found a lot of clams and Dungeness crabs. Crabbing was sometimes more complicated than normal when sheets of ice would cover the crab floats overnight. |
| Author Rick and Jennifer at the hot springs on Baranof Island. The hike up the trail was complicated by several feet of snow but we only fell through the crust a few times. |
| Lots of other people come in the summer to take advantage of the great hiking, the spectacular waterfall and the natural hotsprings...when we arrived we had the whole thing to ourselves. |
| This was crunch time—it was either get off the grid immediately while we still had enough water to float or secure the boat right now. Éwe tied about 23 lines fore, aft, from port, from starboard, around the mast, dropped the anchor, tied one halyard to the dock and the other off the port side to the shore. We were secure, and as the water dropped, we found we had secured ourselves better than we thought by wedging a big rock under the rudder. (I'm glad we measured everything twice!) The rock only broke a little piece off the corner of the rudder.
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