The Powder Blog

Today was a top 10 day. Fantastic. Real powder tree skiing doesn’t happen every week at Gore. No surprise, I couldn’t sleep last night. When it’s dumping, I just keep waking up to look out the window. I crashed about midnight and final got out of bed around 4:30.

Conservatively we got 14″ overnight and another inch today. The snow that fell after midnight last night…maybe the last 5 inches was total blower. It snowed lightly all day, even when the sun was out.

It was 10 degrees when I started the car and headed to the mountain. My new plow guy was nowhere to be found, last night or today before I left for the mountain. I left the car at the top of the hill, and blasted my way down.

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Ski Day 5: It was snowing last night when I got to the cabin. It snowed pretty hard most of the night.

I’d say we got about 8 or 9 inches by morning. I couldn’t sleep. I was constantly waking up and shining a headlamp out side to see if it was still snowing. It was. All snow up until 5:00 am which was when I finally just got up.

At 7:30 I walked down the path. A little crunch. In the last hour or so some sleet had fallen. I drove down the road towards the mountain. There were some turkeys in the road. When I got to the mountain, I got a parking spot valued at $10. The Lodge was empty.

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