Winter, fashionably late

At last, the season's first major winter storm has dumped a respectable cloak of snow over the north country. Mount Washington observatory received nearly a foot, and the mountain valleys and notches seem to have received even more. I skiied yesterday afternoon at Wildcat- had the stomach for only three runs in the blizzard conditions, but they were lovely, with knee-deep powder on every trail. Though we'd only stayed for a little more than an hour, we returned to the car to find it buried in about two inches of new snow.

Skiing in to Zealand in so much good stuff will be tiring, but Matt will have broken the trail for me when he skis out this morning. This stint at Zealand could offer the first downhill backcountry skiing of the season... stay tuned.