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.
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...
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.
So we start the day with Big Cottonwood canyon closed due to a couple of slides. Stinky in his Audi and the Morton Salt guy in his Brat are waiting in line. Ron and Travis are waiting in the lot, John is at home just waiting for a call to let him know the canyon is open. At 10:10 am it happens and we are a go. 3 hours later, smiling and grinning from ear to ear after riding in 15 - 20 inches of untracked fresh powder we are back to the lot to tailgate and discuss our days adventures. Awesome stuff, we all look forward to tomorrow to do it all over again.
After the sacrifice, we have snow... would you ever doubt us? There is more on the way tomorrow!
And away we go, it's the Crazy George Cam! Video takes about 10 secs to load.
Another beautiful day at Solitude, it feels almost like spring but with limited snow coverage. It didn't stop us two trainees from having fun and smiling on the lift. No real snow in the forecast, but colder temperatures are coming, at least that will help. Think snow my friends!
Our first snowy luncheon of the season! John had to call me today to get me out of the office to enjoy the weather and I'm glad he did! It made me think how close we are to skiing again.
John, Linda, Bill, Scott and Eric's hiding in there somewhere. It was much colder today and huddling back in Moonbeam cove was a much welcome change. Linda made us a yummy Ruben casserole dish. Even Stinky made it up today, but somehow he eluded the pictures this time around. We'll get you next time John.
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! 
Another shot from the Moonbeam deck, you can see a little snow from the first snowfall in the background on Little Dollie and Tude-Dude. Hey Ray, what ya doing?
