Last Hurrah!

Last run on Southern Drawl

Our last few days of the winter season ended with a BANG! A fresh 10 inches of snow fell on the slopes early on Wednesday. We had it to ourselves for the most part since the powder hounds weren't aware of the amount of snow that had fallen. The early risers would have seen only a dusting on the snow report. Those of us that get to the mountain by 8:00 AM knew it was going to be a good powder day. By the time the lifts started spinning at 9:00 AM there was at least 4-5 inches on the ground & it kept falling. It was awesome!

Thursday was a different story. The lift line was much longer than Wednesday's & another 3 inches of freshly fallen snow certainly added to the fun. Even though the lift lines were longer & the slopes much more crowded we still found a good bit of untracked snow. We decided to skip break time due to the crowded lodge and hit the powder areas that the 'come heres' don't ride or ski. When the legs got too tired we left the mountain and headed to Mountains Walking for our reward...a carnivore pizza & Cind's favorite fruity slushie. 

Our final day of the week was one of those rare bluebird days with little to no wind, bright sunshine & just cold enough to keep us comfortable. After some discussion we decided to end our season on that high note. Once again we made it back to Virginia in 2 days. We know we are nuts, but what else do we have to do? 

It was an earlier exit than we'd originally planned, but our dear friends' daughter was getting married the next weekend. As it turned out maybe we were a bit premature on that decision since the snow started falling & the town ended up with 20 inches early Saturday. I had mentioned to SH that if 20 inches of POW fell we'd not be attending her wedding. We even tried to get her to move her wedding to Chico Hot Springs in Pray, MT. Too bad that didn't work out since the snow has continued to fall and temperatures have remained below freezing. No spring skiing this year! We hate spring skiing...next year we're staying until the end of season. Yeah it will probably be 70 degrees...then we'll bike!

The Pickle & the crazy tracks over cliffs

A few stats of the season:

Cind rode over 44 days, had approximately 500 runs, traveled over 450 miles & 316,173 vertical feet (give or take a few days due to her app's failure to launch on a few days).

Bill rode over 39 days, had approximately 440 runs, traveled over 381 miles & 137,323 vertical feet**(give or take a few days due to his app's failure to launch on a few days).

**his vertical is off due to switching from an app that doesn't record it to one that did later in the season

 
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