I’m not done with winter just yet. There’s a few things to do first, like throw my dog into the pow. She’s head over heels for it… Even Barb came out for a little Easter tour action. The hill has been closed for weeks, but it’s still snowing almost every day up there. We hit[...]
Read More One More Snow Day……
So sad. Here’s a little keyhole view of our tracks from the approach run to Secondary. Yes, that unfamiliar light in the sky is back. I’m totally blown from yesterday. Only got 17 runs yesterday. My tele record this year was 23, which equals 46k vertical feet. A definite personal best for a freeheel one[...]
Read More LAST DAY!…
It’s almost the last day. Here we are, getting on the lift at 8:50. Check out that massive lineup. Yup, it’s the last powder day of the season. Well, the last one with lift access. The end of year shenanigans have started early. Once again, it’s steep and deep under the chair. Sorry about the[...]
Read More 2nd To Last Day…
Yay! Skiing with Barb! It’s only the second time this year. Oh, and Jenny is up too. As usual, it snowed. About 10cm again, but it’s adding up and since there’s no sun and it’s cold… …it’s staying pretty nice. I know, I sound like a broken record, but that’s because you just don’t get[...]
Read More Family Ski Day…
Is it possible to get bored of skiing powder? Well… Not really. Only 10cm last night, but the wind blew hard and the fog scared everyone off this morning. It cleared off this afternoon so the all the hard cores got it to themselves, again. Belle even skipped training to try out some twin tips. [...]
Read More How About Even More?…
Yup, that’s first chair. Consider this: Spring Break Blue sky (well, at least 1st thing this morning anyway). 20 cms overnight Only a dozen people in line this morning. Go figure. I had to work, so I only managed a couple of early laps on my own time, but I did get out for some[...]
Read More More…Pow!…
I think it’s been over a month since it started snowing, actually. Maybe one 24 hour period in there someplace without snow. Sure not much sun, I’ll tell you that. Touring today with Wendy (below) and Leatherface (above). A freekin’ comedy of errors, this one. If we were awarding P cards ( a Sterling Lorence[...]
Read More More Snow, and More Fog…
We’re trying to teach these kids to race slalom. Powder is sort of the same thing, right? Well, it’s been snowing every day for a couple of weeks, I guess we’ll just have to make do. Yes, I agree. It IS good to be here. Especially if you’re Luke and you just won a snowboard.[...]
Read More More Powder Racers…
Who farted? Yeah, that’s not how we load the quad chair. Ah well, nobody but me noticed. Here, watch Alex find a flat landing. A nice reflection shot. Too bad Barkley tried to tear his foot off the next day. Well, I had fun skiing with you this year Mike. See ya in the next[...]
Read More Another Day, Another Pow Sesh…
Day 2 and we’re still kicking ass. I went out a bit last night, but nothing major. We packed ‘er in at midnight so we could ski today. We all worked hard to get the race over with early, and then (after Jesse won), we went up top. First thing we saw was this guy[...]
Read More Revy Racing – 2…
THAT’S gonna cost you. At least a case of beer there. Even worse when you’re the head of ski patrol, right Paul? Well, that was my morning. After noon, I went for a fast lap out of bounds with Julie. She was a bit nervous about heading out on a big ski trip that included[...]
Read More More Touring…
It might look like it, but this was about the only clear sky we’ve seen in a couple of weeks. It lasted all of about 10 minutes, just long enough for me to snap these shots of Dennis tele-ing up a storm. Just to make you feel worse, he’s retired. Because he’s old enough to[...]
Read More Not A Sunny Day…
It keeps coming down. Yesterday’s tracks have filled in, and I’m back over on Secondary with some other members from the ski club. That’s Alex dropping in to Top Gun, and it’s sliding pretty good about a foot deep. We had to take it a little bit easy, but Alex and Nancy are used to[...]
Read More Howlin’ With the Howdens…
