friday September 15th the weather man says we will get snow in the mountains between 6,000 and 8,000 feet.
It rains all day I had to take a load of pallets through
Sardine Canyon the temperature at 1:47 pm dropped to 44 degrees.
After work my mom calls me while I am at home and tells me that the news said it is snowing in the mountains.
I went down the hall to my brothers apartment and watched
Lucky Number Sleven with him, his girlfriend heather and my youngest brother Clint. After the movie got over it was about 1:00am Saturday September 16th. I had been planning on going up to
Powder Mountain that night to see if it was getting any kind of snow. Well We grabbed our gear in case the snow was deep enough. Finally got on our way at about 1:30 am had to get gas though. On the way up the temperature in the valley was 44 degrees. After we went through the canyon to the city
Eden which is about 8-10 miles from
Powder Mountain the temperature was about 40. Our hopes were quickly turning to doubt that there would be any snow up at the resort. Well to get to
Powder Mountain from
Eden you have to climb quite a bit in elevation. As we started to climb it began to get foggy. Our trucks have digital thermometers we watched the temperature drop as we continued to climb, it began to get foggier and foggier it was still raining but I noticed the rain seemed to be turning to snow, it was! The side of the road had snow already laying. As wel climbed higher the road had a light layer of snow on it as well. We got through the fog and it was like a blizzard! I havent been so excited since I was a child on Christmas Eve! The resort had some outside lights that lit areas up. The road ends at the parking lot of the resort. We turned the truck off in the parking lot and got out breathing in the fresh crisp cold air. The snow was about 2-4 inches deep depending on the area. we hopped back in the truck and talked for a half hour or so and finally decided to go home and get some sleep then head up later that morning. On the way back I got my gear on and hopped out, snowboarding down the side of the road a ways till the snow was just too thin, Justin drove slow giving me the light need with the trucks headlights. I just wanted to get back in my board, I didn't care how little snow there was.
That morning we got up and were on our way at about 9am. The snow at the resort was 10-13 inches. One person was on one of the runs boarding down and climbing back up. He worked there and said it was the best place since there were no rocks just brush on this particular run. I didn't know how out shape I was till I hiked up the side of the mountain. The powder was great but my muscles are pathetically weak. I was able to do 3 runs is all. Climbing took too much out of me. But It was worth it. Boarding in the middle of September seemed like a dream. I felt like I should be waking up any minute.
