Storm Day

I got in a great day of storm skiing at Alpine Meadows. I had planned on going to Squaw but the entire top of the mountain was closed there. I saw that Sherwood was open at Alpine so went there instead.

Set my alarm for 4:30. At 4:30 I really didn't want to get up and go skiing. I thought the storm might close the mountain wasting a day of driving. I thought it might be too dangerous to drive in the snow going up there. Whatever, I left my place around 5:30.

I made it to the lift around 10:30. I spent maybe 30 minutes at the grocery store and coffee place on the way up. I don't know how long it took to get clothes straight and walk to the lift. Much of the drive had been through the storm at 30 miles per hour. The car is actually great in snow like that, but I wish I had snow tires.

I rented Nordica Hellcat skis for most of the day. I liked them a lot but they are a lot of work! Later in the day I rented Nordica Enforcer's and they were so much less work it was unbelievable. I couldn't see bumps in the low light of the storm but the Enforcers just floated over the bumps either feeling great or dropping me down a making me do a little grunt to recover from the shock delivered from the bump. I was exhaused after the Enforcers so I asked for something really easy. I got the Solomen XWings. Woah these were insanely easy to drive. All of a sudden it felt like I could turn on a dime and the bumps were not shocking me anymore. Probably these skis are too easy for me, but I've got to admit I liked them.