New Years 2011 - what a blast! I got off of a 12hr night shift at 7am on Dec 31, busted home to sleep for a couple hours before getting up to pack and meet friends at 11am. A small group of us chartered a helicopter to take us on a 20min tour around Work Channel, Quottoon Inlet and up to the cabin on Mt Blaine. It was a beauty day and the flight and sights were amazing. I've done a lot of hiking in the areas we flew over so it was awesome to see the area from the air.
We landed on the mountain around noon and snowshoed all the gear, food, booze over to the cabin and started up with our first cocktail right away. We snacked on fried cranberry moose sausage, cheddar shipped from Holland and cinnamon goat cheese in the afternoon and made homemade pizzas for dinner. We were right smashed by 6pm so we cranked the music up and danced our way all the way until the New Year, if we weren't moving around we probably wouldn't have made it...haha. Super fun cabin dance party though, we had it all going on from full on 5 minute air guitar solos to romantic slow dances.
Next day we all felt good, just a tad tired - especially me, having not slept the night before. We had smoked salmon eggs bennies for breaky, lobster and salmon for lunch, smoked white spring salmon for dinner. Mostly just hung out, read, napped and visited with some people that hiked up for the afternoon.
We spent that night in the cabin as well, had another amazing breakfast the next morning before packing up and heading down.
Good people, good tunes, good food.
Happy New Year all xx B
The view from the cabin window
