SNOW!!!! Not stop snow here in Northwest Michigan. This is the first winter in ever that has required me to have my roof shoveled…three feet as of today and it is only the 6th of December! But we were ready this time so we are having some fun. It is beautiful. We are snowshoeing and X-country skiing. Lots of photo ops.

Shanty Creek Resort opened the slopes on Thanksgiving Day and the skiing is superb. The village (Bellaire is all decked out for Christmas and there are tons of people shopping and going to the eateries in town. We just got back from a coffee at Moka, our local (and cool) coffee shop & gourmet deli/bakery.

I expect that if the snow keeps up, we’ll run out of room to push it and have to bring in dumptrucks to cart it off. But that is what makes this area one of the best in the lower peninsula for winter sports. We are the Snowbelt and get all of the lake effect snow. There is a brand new snowmobile trail being built that comes from the main trail in Mancelona right into Bellaire for the first time in history, so we expect to get a serious amount of business from that. I am seeing more sled dog teams as well.

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