Ski and Spread the Joy

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Open with 10km. Woodcock, Snow Goose, Turkey, Grouse and Peregrine. Skiing is good, what are you waiting for?

15º at 7am and the sun is shining. Expected high 25º.

The skiing is good the weather is great. Get out and ski!

This is the grandkid that was was here yesterday. She is almost 8 and in second grade. She attended a yoga class yesterday morning. She along with everyone else felt way better when we were done with yoga. (She looked like she might have dozed off in savasana, also not the only one in class.) Then we skied. We skied the Peregrine. There are so many animals tracks. The snow was perfect. Mouse, squirrel, rabbit, coyote. The hare up on the Peregrine in the balsams are all over and more than one or two. It was so obvious they are all searching for food. She realized food searching would be pretty much a full time job. And in her imagination they came home empty handed. So, home we came. She cut up 3 apples, 3 carrots, all the leftover kale, and them filled the little bag with bird seed. We put the bag in my pack basket and off we headed on the Peregrine again. She stopped at any place with animal tracks that she thought looked like the entrance to someone’s home. The definition seemed to require a roof, something that acted like a door and tracks leading to and from. She then threw hand fulls of her mixture down the hole and around the door, and found such joy in imagining these little creatures coming home to a surprise meal. She kept saying, “This is Christmas.”  So while you ski the Peregrine smile each time you notice some of this joy spread around.

A Great Day For A Ski

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10 km Open. Woodcock, Snow Goose, Turkey and Grouse. And Peregrine!

-1 at 7am. Expected high 20º, and sunny.

Ian groomed yesterday trying to scrape and smooth out the little ups and downs on the trails. It helps. Less snow does means you feel the little bumps and humps more. All the shoveling and bough Chuck, Dick and Ian did out on the Woodcock, Snow Goose helps a lot! And the Peregrine is skiing really nicely.  It was designed with low snow in mind. And a few people worked really hard to get it smoother, so it doesn’t need as much snow.

Ian skied yesterday for a couple hours and then skied at ski practice. I haven’t seen many selfies from him. Ta-da, a selfie from Ian. The Burr and Burton Ski team has about 30 kids this year. They have 3 official coaches and yesterday they had a couple extra helpers. It is a great site to see so many skiers out at once skiing round and round.

A Little New Snow and A Lot of Shoveling=Open

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Open. 10 km. Turkey, Woodcock, Snow Goose, Grouse and Peregrine.

22º at 7am. 2 inches of snow overnight after a dusting of snow yesterday morning.

Ian, Dick and Chuck spent the day yesterday cutting and hauling balsam branches to wet spots on the Woodcock and Snow Goose. They then shoveled snow on top, and the trail is white again. Now a couple more inches of snow and it is skiable again. When David skis it and tells me it is better than yesterday I know we have a win. (and I know they did a lot of work!)

Dick was out there yesterday with a shovel and clippers. He wastes no snow. The three of them shoveled snow back on all the wet spots out there. And really they were glad to have the snow to shovel!

Around and Around We Go

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Closed, ( but, season pass holders may ski.) One of the benefits to having a pass. The plan is to be open for everyone this weekend.

15º at 7am. Expected high today, 27º. And possibly a few flurries this afternoon. Every flake helps.

Ian went around the Peregrine and Turkey yesterday with the snow cat. There is not enough snow for to use the tiller on the snow cat, so he used the compactor bar. The skiing on those two trails is ok. Not bad. The Woodcock and Snow Goose are scratchier, but ok. They are faster than last week.

The snow cat is 33 years old. It is sturdy and does a great job. Ian drove it down the steep drop on the Peregrine, new trail, and that spot is too steep. The diesel fuel backed up the vent and was leaking out. So….plan “B”.

The snow machine then pulled the groomer up. Ian was so surprised he set up his phone to take a video and did it again.

See video in SmugMug.

We will keep filling in wet spots with branches and shoveling snow. And at least there is snow to shovel. But really we need snow to fall from the sky again. And it will!

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