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After taking yesterday off to watch Treepilot Jr. link turns at his second snowboard lesson, I met up with the Moose and his skier friend Brian this morning at the usual spot. I was running a bit late, but we were starting the cross country snowboard by just before 9AM.
The park had gotten some snow that missed the surrounding ski hills. The weather station was reporting about 15 cms of new, but we found 25 to 30 up high. It was super light stuff over top of a thin layer of old consolidated snow, over top of a solid crust. The first few climbs were quite difficult with a lot of slipping and sliding, but the three of us eventually hammered out a pretty good up.
I made two laps down the landing strip, and one down the bowling alley. Brian was spent and headed back to the vehicle so the Moose and I made another lap coming down Knob North. Blower snow on all four laps, but I found myself holding back a bit due to buried cookies. Conditions should improve as this storm snow sets up a bit. I debated a fifth lap, but elected to save some for tomorrow. The days are getting noticeably longer - it was 4pm when I started the exit and there's enough light that you could still be riding up til 5:30pm.
No pictures today but another 6,270 added to the tally and I hit the halfway mark for 5,000+ days with #25.
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