Can I just say I hope 2010 is similar to 2009 in terms of snowpack? I was looking back through my notes from last year and I see a number of quality powder days last season. Looking at the radar I am hoping we'll see our first big powder day of 2010 in just a couple of days. Time will tell.
It amazes me that the first decade of the new millennium is now over. With that said can we still call it the "new" millennium? Whatever we call it it has been a good time to be a skier. Equipment has progressed in amazing ways in the last ten years. Ski areas have opened up their terrain and even helped to cut new glade runs in the last decade. Terrain parks have become the norm and kids are catching the kid of air that only the top freestyle skiers were getting a decade ago. Snowmaking and grooming have improved and we have gotten spoiled with the conditions we enjoy. When was the last time you saw REAL ice? You know the kind- the blue ice. It's rare and usually the result of a blown snowmaking line.
Today we update our Facebook pages between runs. Shoot high def video with cameras attached to our helmets. Helmets are on just about everyone. We ski with more music in our pockets than most DJ's carried around in their cars 10 years ago. We take calls while on the lift and check email while we are in the base lodge. For some they've been able to make the ski area their "home" office and can be just as productive as their office bound workmates who spend more time watching Hulu at work than actually getting anything done.
It's been a good ten years, and the next ten- well let's just hope that they kick off with a good storm.
Now get out and ski.
Sven
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I am glad you can combine "work" with skiing, We wouldn't want your mother to fire you
Now I just need to get to a place where "work" is skiing.
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