As we sat on the bus this morning in the rain listening to the radio, we hoped of good things at the mountain. It had rained down low all night long and was still raining. Cardrona was on hold. The staff vans were not moving. What will the mountain look like? Will the wild predictions be right - or will we have another 2cm of fresh powder.
After about half an hour we were on the way up the hill, smiles came across all faces, when we realised it had snowed down quite low. Walking out to the lift I was almost knee deep in powder. Now, I am not that tall but none the less there was about 20cm at least of powder at the base. We were in for a fun day. Lots of digging of ramps and shovelling of snow, raking, flipping chairs, sweeping magic carpets - we finally had the beginners slopes open. Time to get the other lifts open. Scottie skidooed me up to my station - the top of captains. All was not plain sailing though. Not sure how it happening - but one minute we're cruising along Sean's way. The next minute we're lying in the snow. The skidoo beside us on its side in the snow. No one was hurt - so we had a laugh - pushed it right again. The it was onwards and upwards to Captains.
I had a fairly cruisy day up there, the mountain was not at all packed - and we got lots of powder runs in at lunch.
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