Curling in Fairbanks - Rocks and Sheets

Curling in Fairbanks - Rocks and Sheets

Curling… and I don’t mean your tresses at the beauty salon…  is a popular sport in Fairbanks. A sport with which we were not familiar. Some of our friends from Wisconsin (that’s you, Kari!) were avid curlers, but we’d never seen a game. In advance of our visit to Fairbanks, I contacted the Fairbanks Curling Club and asked if we could perhaps visit and learn more about the game.

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Fairbanks - Winter Walks in Creamer’s Field

Fairbanks - Winter Walks in Creamer’s Field

We plodded along the paths, snow crunching loudly under our footfalls. We noted different sounds in different parts of the fields… sometimes crrrr-unch, but sometimes a squeak and crunch. Most days a muted sun hovered low in the sky.

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