Yesterday I had laser eye surgery on my 2nd eye. This morning, everything was sharply outlined. Wonderful!

Today Karen and I hiked up Ingalls Creek Trail. We used micro-spikes because there were rocks poking through the snow in places. Hard on snowshoes.

Happily, someone broke trail with snowshoes after the weekend snowstorm. Karen, 71, had fun making faces on boulders and stumps. We hiked 4.5 miles with 800 feet of elevation gain.

Ingalls Creek Trail is extremely popular. It's featured in Alaska Airlines in-flight magazine. Bad word. We saw nobody. Perfect.

Tomorrow we're going to hike up to Clara and Marion Lake to find the warm gloves I left behind. It was so cold, I took off wet gloves and yanked everything out of my pack on top of the gloves. In the rocks. Dry mittens were, of course, in the bottom of my pack.

Karen insists we go look for them. I know where they are. Where we sat for lunch. Must bring a small shovel to dig the gloves out of the snow.