My beloved powder filled December was a distant memory at the start of last week.. January had come in the form of rain and warmer than normal temps.. Our January thaw had decided to stay through out most of January.. Making for typical East Coast icy slopes.. Throw in a couple of -10 days in between the rain and the warm temps and you had East Coast Cement..

 

Ooo woe was me..     My snow spirit was SOOOO in the dumps..   

 

In an attempt to appease the snow gods I borrowed a technique from a loved one and started flushing ice cubes down the toilet.. With each ice cube flushed I kept up the mantra in my head of "LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW".. Hey I was desperate!!  What's a girl to do.. Laughing.

 

Mother Nature must have gotten a kick out of my attempts cuz Wednesday dawned with flurries.. Thursday dawned with 8 inches of snow and still dumping..  Friday dawned with 16 inches of fresh powder.. Ooo la la..  My snow spirits were back in over drive.. I cleared my hectic schedule and zoomed up to the mtn on Sunday.. It was snowing when I got there at 8 AM.. By 10 it was a freakin blizzard and WHITE OUT conditions.. It just kept dumping the whole time I was up there.. I spent Sunday with a perma powder grin as every wooded run yielded fresh pow after fresh pow.. I wimpered off the slopes about 2:30 with that wonderful used and abused feeling..

 

When all was said and done we'd ended up with over 3 feet of fresh pow.. And OOO look there's more snow in my forecast.. Oo yeah I'm definitely going to flush some more ice cubes..

 

"Although human sublety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous" - Leonardo Da Vinci