For the last week or so, it's been nothing but pounding, driving rain and warm temps. Freezing level consistently between 2000-3000 meters. There's no chance that there's any snow left on any of the locals at this point! Snow-forecast is showing a faint hint of the freezing level maybe dropping to something sane by end of next week, but it's still only a hint. Certainly this has got to be a worst-case scenario. If we can recover from this and have a good opening on Seymour before Dec 1st, I'll just...

It's time to "officially" identify my goals for this season. They are:

- Stop being so cautious
- learn to hit the northlands jumps properly and dependably, without knuckling every other time.
- Do street-style boxes
- do rails
- Get 180's-at-will nailed
- Learn 360s on small jumps
- Do Devil's Drop, and all other runs on Seymour comfortably
- Ground tricks.
- Become completely comfortable with switch.
- Perfect...

After a couple of epic days of snowfall, the freezing level bumped itself up to 2000m and has been hanging there for days. Add torrential rain the last 24 hours and i doubt there's anything left.

I think something very similar happened the previous two years as well. I guess the first snowfall of the year is really meaningless except maybe psychologically.

In other news, the Mystery chair is officially complete, which is good news.

8" of snow on Seymour. Pix here: http://www.snowboardingforum.com/wes...tml#post529278

Also, the Mystery chair is complete, as near as i can tell.

So the predictions were right! Snowed yesterday (20th) on Seymour. Someone posted a pic of the Mystery loading station (the new one!) covered in a thin film of snow. And this morning the Grouse website reports -3 and lightly snowing. The snow-forecast.com website is showing the freezing level staying around 1000m for the next 6 days. Despite my attempts at cynicism, I'm feeling some emotional investment. Please, please don't break my heart!

We went to North Shore Ski & Board...