Home, Home on the Range

Hello internet, it’s Michael. I’m finally breaking radio silence.

With flurries in the forecast, and a man-made loop ready to be rolled out, Ethan and I have been doing our best to get a mini range up and fully operational.  I know what you’re thinking, ‘I thought there was a biathlon range at the center.’  Or possibly, ‘Well, then where did they hold that race?’ Hopefully not, ‘I thought this post was about a movie.’

The truth is, a range is a crucial part of any biathlete’s training, and while dry-firing is important and beneficial, there is no substitute to skiing on snow and shooting bullets.  Also, if you clicked that link, you can see just how exhilarating a dry-fire training session can be.  Sorry about that 1:59 of your time wasted.  You can probably see now why, with our trails about to open (!), we got a little excited to extend the small range on the lower soccer field.  The wood for this project was milled on our land, and most of it grew less than 100 feet from the structure (you can check out the logs strewn haphazardly below).  So that was pretty convenient.

Some trees were in the way.  We made a little mess.

Han gave us a helping hand with screwing in the decking.

Precision supervision.

Most of the logs were small enough for Eth and Me, but we had to recruit some help for one or two.

Taking a moment to gaze into the sunset.

Ropes are hung and steps made.  Now we just need that early snow loop.