The team of dogs I mushed waits to run on Satuday, March 20, 2021 in Talkeetna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion) - Talkeetna, AK 
Out of the Office: The weekend
By the second week of March, I had pretty much forgotten about the dry cabin I’d booked for the next weekend. I’d made reservations from my phone months earlier, after aimlessly scrolling through the “unique housing” section of my Airbnb app.
I remember thinking at the time that driving from the Clarion newsroom to the cabin — on the Montana River outside of Talkeenta — seemed like a drive I could do comfortably after clocking out on Friday. In retrospect, it was a bit of a haul.
My Weather Channel app forecast low temperatures of about minus 22 that weekend, which prompted a frantic run to Sweeney’s Clothing and a hasty purchase of some black Carhartt overalls — definitely the warmest item of clothing I now own.
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