Sunday afternoon I climbed up Sharatin with Nora, Dicky and cousin Zeke. It's a low snow year, but Sharatin still has plenty of snow. We encountered deep snow before we even left the trees, and it was patchy and brushy enough that we could not put on our skis. We would come to snow covered glades and have to posthole across them. Nora sank down so deep into one snow patch that I had to help her out. We were very happy to get to where we could finally put on our skis and from then on we skimmed across the snow surface - no more post holing!
As usual it was gorgeous up on the mountain. We did not quite have enough time to make it to the summit. But we got pretty high up on the mountain and had our late afternoon snack. I even brought a thermos of hot tea for Nora. And it was a long 2 mile ski run to the bottom of the snow and trees where we took the skis off. We went as far as we possibly could on skis to keep the potholing to a minimum.
Beautiful day!
Patrick
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