When We Was FAB

3/23/10
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Bernie, George and Ron - FAB. Remember the George Harrison tune? Well, it was not a long time ago, but we are FAB (Fogs at Brighton). We visited Brighton via Sol-Bright and had a good time on Millicent. I even think we should make this a regular visit a few times a month. Ski over, have a brew or bite to eat at Milly Chalet and cruise back to Solitude. When you're ready just say "FAB", we'll follow you...

Eagle Express Open!

11/24/09
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The Fog's where out in full force today. Welcome back to Duane, Dorrie, John and Papa Roach! Great conditions for mostly man made snow, with a little fresh on top. It felt sooo good to cruise the bowl down to lower sundancer. Parking is now available down by Eagle and we can say goodbye to Moonbeam for a while. More vertical, more friends and more fun...

Another Blue Bird Day

Another great day at Solitude. Lot's of snow has piled up over the last 12 days. Today's stats are mid mountain 60" base with 159" total snowfall so far this season. Everything is open with the exception of Sol/Bright cut over. A few rocks here and there back in Honeycomb but the feeling is there. With a few more storms and a few less people (yes, it's been busy over the holidays) over the next few weeks, we are in business. We are also pleased to see Bill back on the mountain, welcome back FOG.

Glorious days are upon us!

Glorious days are upon us! With a lucky 13" mid mountain new snow the last few days it just keeps coming. The morning crew stops for now what is a tradition, our morning 10:00 am juice break. Just enough to warm our insides and get us back out on the mountain to have more fun. Today stats: 43" mid base, 91" for the season and lots of snow in the forecast for the next 10 days (7 of the 10). Honeycomb opened today! Remember, there are a lot of days left in the season before you go out and get all jiggy to soon... I did...

Big Snow Coming?

Saturday forecast is a winter storm watch! We may even be in for a total of 6 days back to back. As for today, bluebird skies, good friends and even some day glow.

Snow Storm Alert

So the day starts out at 9:oo am with sunny sky's and a forecast of a possible small about of snow today. 9:45 or so, pow! We get a hour long storm that brings us about 2", oh what a joy it was. Light and fluffy, not 2 feet, but cold and something new to ski on. We did make some fun little tracks that put a smile on all of our faces.

The Beach Boys

After about 12 runs (the quads are awesome) and a couple of hours, the boys decide to take a well deserved break and have some more fun. We start our morning with our Bloody Mary's, ski some and then make a party of it. Oh, you know, life is good...

First Big Snow of the 08 - 09 Season!

Look at what happened overnight, 22" (mid mountain) just like that! In celebration a few us had our little party on the Moonbeam deck today. It made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck in anticipation, opening day is just around the corner. This is how things looked just 7 days ago:

Fat Tuesday

Mardi Gras (French for "Fat Tuesday") is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called "Shrove Tuesday" or "Pancake Day". Mardi Gras is the final day of Carnival the three day period preceding the beginning of Lent, the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday immediately before Ash Wenesday. The entire three day period has now come to be known in many areas as Mardi Gras, so as it is elsewhere, it is also here with the Fog at Solitude. Beautiful day, lots of snow, and a sunny day just for us.

Brisk Tailgate Wednesday

Today's high was supposed to be around 7 degrees! I'm not sure what the temps where today, but whoa, it was cold. Brighton reported a record low of -2 degrees. But, nothing like some great friends and some good warm goodies to finish out our day. Warm Chicago Dogs and some Crazy George spiked cider did just the trick to take the edge off of the cold temperatures. We said goodbye to Tony and Barb today from California, hopefully they will be back for Brigs birthday. Oh yeah, Linda gave Bill a new ruskie hat today, dig it!

It's A Keeper!

After the sacrifice, we have snow... would you ever doubt us? There is more on the way tomorrow!

Brown to White, Just Like That!

Our sacrifice worked! Did you have any doubt? From brown to a beautiful white just overnight. It's only 7", but we will take anything we can get. It will just get deeper and whiter from here on out. Eagle Express in coming on Friday...

Sacrifice to the Snow Gods IV

The Snow Gods were called upon again today. It is said that the person that sees our sacrificed virgin on the beach will have good luck. Are you feeling lucky?

Grumpy and his Merry Crew

Another nice day with much cooler temps. Solitude is now blowing snow full time. Fleet Street is rumored to be the next opening run from the top of Apex. Thanksgiving weekend is upon us, hopefully more resorts will open. Ski some runs, eat some turkey and be happy. Coming this weekend, the Crazy George Cam...

Planting the Garlic for next season

We take the time today to plant next years harvest of garlic in the Keller Garden. Here Bernie gets close instruction on the proper way to use a tiller. Bill points him in the right direction. It's critical, one wrong move and the whole garlic crop could be ruined!

Scott, Bill and Ron assume the position for planting the garlic in the just the right way: 6 rows, each garlic exactly 6" apart. Bill gave me directions for measuring the 6" , I told him that method would actually put them at 8" apart...

Fall Lunch Pesto Pasta Spectacular

Another fine luncheon for the fogs today on top of the Moonbeam center. John made up some great pesto pasta made from Bill's garden (picked fresh yesterday) and cooked it on the spot. Ron rounded it out with some Italian sausages and we also had the usual snacks. It just dosen't get any better, blue skys, cool air and great company. We chated about the first snow, Karl predicted the 23rd, we'll keep our fingers crossed.