We went to Seymour Wednesday afternoon for an afternoon/evening session. I had originally intended to take the bus up first thing in the morning, then meet the family when they came up later. Should have stuck with that. There was some new snow early in the day, but by the time we got there at 4pm it was snowcrete. Plus there was a constant light drizzle, the kind that keeps your goggles just fogged up enough so that you can't see where you're going. I am truly amazed at how much difference that...

I might be jinxing things with the title, but right now it's really looking like a great season shaping up.

As of this morning, Seymour is at 541 cm and there's still more snow coming. I think they'll be well over 600 by the end of December. Woo-hah! I had a short discussion with a liftie at the bottom of Lodge Chair about that. Everyone seems to be excited about the snowpack. (No shit, Sherlock)

The tramp lessons are on hiatus until Jan 12th, so Saturdays are free...

First, an update since last post. It's been snowing on the mountain pretty much every day for the last 2 weeks, and the freezing level has stayed down so nothing is melting and there's no rain. More on this when I get to today on the mountain, but let me just say: wow!

So anyway, last week was really hard on the old bod. I was sore for days, including some very sore stomach muscles from having to dig myself out of several slams into deep snow. By this weekend I was feeling ok, so...

Went up today -- second day of the season for Seymour, and the first day for me. The website said they'd be opening at 9:30, but I got there just after 9 and they were already loading people up.

The new Mystery chair is great. Just like the Whistler chairs, it slows right down at the bottom and the top, and just zooms along in the middle. It wasn't actually running twice as fast as the old one, but someone assured me that yesterday it had been running faster. The chair doesn't have...

Yippee ki-yay, etc! Snow predicted on Seymour! Freezing level down almost to the bottom lift on the 20th. This actually seems to be a little ahead of last year's schedule. Not that I'm putting too much emotional investment into that. Last year looked pretty good at this stage and turned out to suck brutally.