Game On

Last evening, just before sunset, the clouds briefly parted to show Thunder Mountain wearing a phat coat of white. A series of winter storms have been hammering our area but it is early season so I wasn't sure it would be enough for those first turns. Still the sight left me drooling and given my itchiness to dust off the planks I felt it was definitely worth checking out. Luckily my adventuresome ski buddy Pete was ready to throw in with me.

Right out of the starting gate we were pleasantly surprised by the amount of snow and it only got better from there with a nice solid base and knee deep fresh on the skin track. Practically salivating by the time we reached the summit we hastily ripped off our skins and set about shredding the pow to make our first turns of the season. It was by no means shabby.

In fact we went back for second helpings and then thirds...

To be honest it was rather surreal given that this time last week I was riding my mountain bike in shorts and t-shirt only 20 miles away. But I'll take it. I'm ready. Game on winter!