Mid-October 2026 we decided to meet at the Skaters Cabin on the southwest corner of Mendenhall Lake to paint. Happily it was a sunny but crisp fall day. A group of local high school kids walked down to the lakeshore where we were painting and waded out into the VERY cold lake to take a picture! They were much braver and probably a lot more hot-blooded than me and my painting buddy! That view I show in the painting has a skim of ice further out in the lake!