Soft

No, not Lucy..... The snow! I went down to Hidden Falls to ski today. Today. December 4. That shouldn't be so surprising, but I just read somewhere that this is the earliest skiing we have had in 16 years! So as I was skiing I was trying to figure out what felt so different about it. Then it hit me, it was soft snow. I was cutting tracks through fresh virgin snow- even when I turned around to follow my tracks back to my car, they were already recovered and I had to break trail once again. Last year, one of the only skies I had was up at Telemark. The snow was so hardpacked and icy that Jackie, our Peruvian houseguest, on skies for the first time, fell and busted her tailbone. I have real serious high hopes for this winter.