A WEEK OF SNOW

THE SNOW CAME AND WENT AND THEN CAME AGAIN
This time, we got seven inches or so (that's about 18 cm). The heavy falls came over two days and we had about three inches late in the evening of the first day. I thought to myself, 'You should get out there and shovel that off the driveway while it is light and fluffy.' Of course, I did nothing of the sort and had to tackle four more inches sitting on top of the now heavy snow from the previous day. Never mind...nothing like a little snow shoveling at six in the morning! Ha...as I write this I am listening to the news from Portland where you are getting much the same.

For those of you who liked the Fall picture from the back deck, here is how it looks now. With the temperature down between 20 and 30 deg F, I have been thinking of skiing and have been at waxing skis off and on. As the snow persisted and stayed dry, I finally went down to the shed and got out my wider, back country skis and took a tour around the property.

Behold, cross country ski trails at Painted Post. Altogether, I managed to get about 200 yards of trails to ski about and those of you who might at one time have had a ski outing with me back in my days as a week end ski instructor might recall all that tramping about on skit to make skiable slopes might recognize this bit of work below.

I got about two days of skiing out of this. I took off to Pinnacle Peak Golf Course (Nine holes of skiing and tobogganing just now) this Sunday afternoon.
This is the highest point around here with great views all around but, alas, the snow was just damp enough to clump underfoot (well, underski, if you get my meaning). Lacking glide wax, I fairly soon gave it away.

With my trusty cell phone camera, I took a shot or two so you can get an idea of the conditions there.
There were about a dozen or so having fun on the slope below the clubhouse. No golf today!

Uma caught me at it in the back yard so Here I am...