It's been stormy for the last few days, and yesterday morning was awful. And this morning it is stormy again with Mill Bay all a roil. But for a few hours yesterday afternoon it was spectacular. I must admit the sunshine caught me by surprise, and the intensity did have me thinking that the clear skies were here to stay.
'Sucker hole' is the local term used for a patch of blue sky that appears during a lull in a storm and leads the foolish to think that the storm is clearing off. Optimists like me are often fooled! So was yesterday a 'sucker hole' or just a glorious afternoon?
I know that I made the most of the clear skies. I skied down into the north bowl on Pyramid and could not help but look back and take lots of pictures of my tracks in the fresh corn snow. Later I showed them to Nora and that's where she wants to ski Friday afternoon after school. Patrick
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| The black dot on the cornice is a person for scale |
And a few more pretty pictures of the mountain from last weekend - the bottom picture really was a sucker hole. It cleared up for just a moment and the sun spotlit me on my ski back down the mountain. Then it got stormy again. The top 2 were on Friday after my helicopter tour of Afognak.
Patrick
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| A Real 'Sucker Hole' |
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