Monday was one of those days where it rained and snowed in the morning and then cleared in the afternoon. I got up to Pyramid just as it was clearing off, and when I got to the summit I could see sunshine on the snow down below me, but a layer of clouds was blocking the sun. I knew that if I waited the sun would creep below the cloud and bathe me and the mountain tops in sunshine. But I thought, 'maybe it will not happen, or it could take a lot longer than I think it will'. So I started to ski down and immediately the sun peeked from below the cloud. By the time I got to the parking lot the top of Pyramid and all the peaks all around were bathed in golden light. As I drove to town I took in the sunset, and thought, 'damn - I should have waited 5 minutes'. It was a spectacular sunset in town.
But I still got some sunset pictures, and I got even better ones yesterday (another blog post to come). So no worries. And on Monday the ski down in the sunshine was sublime. Like perfect. I heard that just a bit later it started to freeze up and get crusty. So maybe if I had waited for the sunset I would had to negotiate breakable crust ski conditions on the way down. Indeed this happened yesterday when we got a spectacular, atmospheric sunset but also encountered terrible ski conditions (post to come).
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