IN THE DEEP

While Craig gets 80-100 days on the hill each year, skiing all sorts of conditions with his herd of stags, I relish the rare powderdays like this one... a buttery, foggy Saturday with a few old friends. That means my numbers are considerably lower, but perhaps my appreciation factor is higher.  Craig has had some struggles this year however with equipment failure, and is currently enduring a rebuild of his 2016 Bramble monoski...

Today inspired me to get back into documenting our powderdays in the 'Boat! It was arguably the best day all year (of which I've only had 6 days to Craig's 63, but he agreed!), with over a foot of new snow that mostly fell since the early hours this morning. At 6am I checked the infamous stick (get the Steamboat app), and it was pretty congruent with the report - 2" at mid-mountain, 5" at the summit. It was snowing, however.I went...

Steamboat is reporting 15" have fallen in the last 48 hours - that's from 5am Weds to 5am today - and when I came home from work at 3pm today, there was about 12"  for me to shovel off our walkway (and the end to that, thank you very much, we just solidified a snow blower for the new casa!). We're in the middle of a Winter Storm Warning that was supposed to last from Thursday to Saturday (tomorrow), that they've now extended until Monday, and they call for another 2-3 feet before then. So we stand to rack up quite a bit...