Before the weather turned bad again Nora and I managed to get in a ski with the dogs. Just before Christmas we did get some new snow, but it fell as slush and turned into a hard crust. So the skiing should have been icy. But what's funny is that we had so much hoar frost stick to everything that it was like an inch or two of snow had fallen on top of the crust. The day before we went skiing we looked up the mountain and it was all foggy - ice fog. That fog covered everything in hoar frost.
So when Nora and I went up to go skiing the visuals were pretty spectacular. Everything was glinting in the sunshine. It was like everything was covered with diamonds. And then high on the mountain - where there was enough of a base below the frost - the skiing was actually pretty good. It was dust on crust!
So good to be back on the snow with Nora!
Patrick
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