Icy Walk with Nora and Charlie

Today Nora and I decided to take Charlie on a walk around town.  Nora (a JV) and the JV's have been dogsitting Charlie while his owner is in Nepal for a month.

It got so warm in Bethel that it snowed, and then it got so warm that the snow turned to rain!  Which of course then froze and turned everyday walking into a skating rink.

The roads are covered in ice, and we've started wearing ice cleats/yaktrax so we don't slip and fall.

We had to stop by the dorms so I could put some different clothes on.  While I was in there, Charlie decided to go on the other side of the fence, and then wouldn't come back through.  I decided to try to coax him through with a muffin but he decided that he'd rather lay down instead....so I had to climb over the fence, pick him up, and hand him to Nora.

We all walked down to the river, that is now frozen.  There are a few holes downriver from us, but for the most part it is completely frozen over and with thick ice, too.  It is so thick that you can walk on it.  The ice doesn't freeze smooth or smooth-ish like lake ice does because of the current and because of chunks of ice smashing into each other like tectonic plates.

I tried to get Charlie to sit with me on a chunk of ice, but he wasn't having any of it.

"Charlie, can you sit?"  "Nope."

Later this evening I went back over to the JV's house where they had made a moose roast!