Mae's Day

Will ya look at this lucky dog?  Will ya look at this gorgeous weather?!  Today we are celebrating Mae's first birthday.  She's 1!  And she's out doing her favorite thing, running around on the mountain!

We've been blessed by absolutely perfect weather this week and still have enough snow on the mountain to skin up with our split boards. It's been great.  Mae is learning to just run ahead of us, which is terrific, because her herding instinct, trying to keep us together, doesn't make for very good snowboarding. 

I think this is a great way to spend a birthday, don't you?

Blue Skies, Ski Tips

Mountain life, in many ways, is like modern life anywhere.  Garbage trucks come too early and are too loud.  There are traffic jams  (ever leave a ski area at closing time?) work deadlines and kids to get through school.  There are endless lists of things to repaint, repair or replace.  There are all kinds of things that keep us from doing the fun stuff.  But every once in awhile it all comes together, the planets align and we are able to step out the door to a mountain paradise.  I think these ski tip and snowboard splitboard selfies sum it up quite well~