Friday night we got snow on the mountains and right away Saturday morning Nora wanted to know when we planned on heading up to the pass to go skiing. So we called up the cousins and away we went. There was a lot more snow up there than I had expected. Stuey and I had climbed up Pyramid at the beginning of the storm on Thursday and there was only a couple of inches. Then Friday was a big wet and warm storm and it ended with snow - even a dusting in town.
On Saturday we took our 'rock' skis and sleds up the mountain expecting to hit rocks on every turn. But there was enough snow that no one hit a rock. It was actually pretty good skiing for the first ski of the season. Usually with the first snow on the mountain there is no base and when you turn on skis you hit the ground with every turn. But with this storm it started as snow on Thursday. Then warmed up and that base froze. Then Saturday morning it snowed on top of that base. So we actually had a good base.
It was good enough skiing that we went again on Sunday and used our normal skis instead of the rock skis. Patrick
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