3 Feet of Fresh Powder? Seriously? Oh yea
You you heard me. It snowed solid for FOUR DAYS last week. We are, officially, buried out here with no sign of warming up - though the snow has at least stopped for now. Overnight we went from "kinda cold looking" to "full-blown Christmas wonderland." We also went from pre-season skiing conditions to ZOMG LOOK AT ALL THIS SNOW.
Was out with some friends on Friday. This is a groomed run, but I had to take the shot to show the scenery. Powder shots in a moment
It was one of those days that happens well...almost never. Not a cloud in the ski, not too cold (but also not too warm), powder everywhere, and no wind. It was so good that they were able to open up Goat's Eye Mountain for the first time this year. Sunshine Village has 12 lifts. Goat's Eye is almost as good as the rest of the lifts combined. We're talking runs down of 2 miles or more and, because it was the first day, we're talking nearly 2 miles of powder. Some of the flatter areas were groomed, of course, but wow there was powder everywhere for the poaching. Check it out!
That ski you see is being lifted up to get some perspective in there. Just try to find the other one :p
And finally, here we are up top of Goat's Eye. Or rather, here I am, looking pretty dumb. Just look at everything else.
In other news, taught my music history students about Handel's "Messiah" this week, and, as luck would have it, the Calgary Philharmonic was playing it the very next night. So I took them to see it and, much to my surprise, all of them loved it. I knew most would, but I expected at least 1 to say "not my cup of tea". It was a fabulous production of it too with 4 strong singers (including one countertenor - read "male alto"). Guess who their favorite voice was? The guy that sounded like a girl! Good kids, all of em. Definitely some good kids right there.
Was out with some friends on Friday. This is a groomed run, but I had to take the shot to show the scenery. Powder shots in a moment
It was one of those days that happens well...almost never. Not a cloud in the ski, not too cold (but also not too warm), powder everywhere, and no wind. It was so good that they were able to open up Goat's Eye Mountain for the first time this year. Sunshine Village has 12 lifts. Goat's Eye is almost as good as the rest of the lifts combined. We're talking runs down of 2 miles or more and, because it was the first day, we're talking nearly 2 miles of powder. Some of the flatter areas were groomed, of course, but wow there was powder everywhere for the poaching. Check it out!
That ski you see is being lifted up to get some perspective in there. Just try to find the other one :p
And finally, here we are up top of Goat's Eye. Or rather, here I am, looking pretty dumb. Just look at everything else.
In other news, taught my music history students about Handel's "Messiah" this week, and, as luck would have it, the Calgary Philharmonic was playing it the very next night. So I took them to see it and, much to my surprise, all of them loved it. I knew most would, but I expected at least 1 to say "not my cup of tea". It was a fabulous production of it too with 4 strong singers (including one countertenor - read "male alto"). Guess who their favorite voice was? The guy that sounded like a girl! Good kids, all of em. Definitely some good kids right there.
posted by Anonymous at 12:33 PM
2 Comments:
Super great pictures; we enjoyed your news as well.
Understand you'll be spending some time at Sauble after Christmas which will make your mom happy.
Jenni's with her as I write---both are snowed in and won't be working Monday.
Stay well---and Merry Christmas to you and Bonnie
Bobba
Good to see someone else is reading your blog. Yes, Jenni and I were snowed in at the cottage. You got three feet in one week, well, I think we got close to two feet in ONE NIGHT! Ha ha. My car looked like a big snow ball; no bottom no sides no front no back. It was crazy. Beautiful though. Wish you could have been there. Reminded me of the time you and Bonnie and I got stuck up there. Only this time there was no wind and the snow was just falling straight down. Gorgeous. Can't wait to see you.
love
mom
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