Spring is just a few days away but I am just starting my winter. After a few months of healing I am ready to go and several trips will help me get in the winter activities I missed since Dec. I soon head to Finland in particular Lapland above the Arctic Circle. Traveling via Husky, ice cutter, horse drawn sleigh, snowmobile and on the hunt for the aurora borealis should give me plenty of outdoor action.

In April I will hit the slopes of Val d’Isere and Chamonix in the French Alps, that should take the sting out of missing a good snow season here in the Catskills. After I am heading back to Lyon and the Rhone Alpes Region to gather more for a possible France Guide piece, I will be wandering on my own and at my own pace.