Tomorrow will be the day. Building extra base on top of that machine-made 10'' we had is slowly amping up our motivation to test the scant 45 acres (~10%). Spoiled or lazy? I'm blaming it on both triptophan and equipment. Today's 6'' at 5am and 2-3 since then just weren't better than my bed... Yet. When you can ski everyday, conditions be the judge.Supposed to snow through the night, and the holidayers depart tomorrow, leaving us alone with Mt Werner to pile it on & ski in peace next week, as the season begins to shape...
With a dusting of new but only a 10'' base, 2 lifts, 4 trails, nothing open above Christie peak, and ''machine-made conditions'' (call the snow phone yourself for that quote: 970.879.7300), we decided on catching the Macy's Day Parade instead. The other die-hards were up there, but Craig's rig isn't completely ready to go (the shock still needs to be rebuilt and the new strut needs to be put on), and although we're storing our buddy Baker's...
Truthfully, we never ski on Scholarship Day.But we always ski on Thanksgiving. Now, on a year when we have a powder day on opening day and I'm really THAT itching to ski, I might very well ski on Scholarship Day- proceeds for this day ($15 tickets, season pass or not) go to our local youth Winter Sports Club- but so far, that hasn't happened in 10 years. However for at least the last seven, I've skied Thanksgiving morning, before I start...