I love winter. I love playing in the snow. After working full time as a ski patroller and living in the big mountains for years, I wondered how I would take to being tied down by a full time indoor job as a teacher. But then it occurred to me....... teachers get snow days. When it really, really snows and the skiing is the best, we get snow days! As it turns out, teachers do get a bunch of snow days, but they are often because of ice or frigid temperatures or flooding and not epic powder days. You end up making up days that were never really about playing in the snow. However, every once in a while, we get that perfect storm.
Last week was one of those weeks. The snow started falling on Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning, there was a heavy layer of snow. Not epic powder, but heavy snow that made driving difficult and blanketed the mountains with the base it so needed. Throughout Wednesday, the snow kept coming down and it continued until Saturday morning. In total, the mountains got almost 30 inches of snow!
Now that Cally is in school, she too gets the snow days that I get. This means that I don't have the freedom to ski all that I want, but it means that I get to share the fun with these two shredders!
And part of being a shredder is carrying your own skis to the mountain (and wearing a faboo one piece).
Snow days also mean putting in some hard time building snow castles and sledding. But, if you play your cards right, it also means getting out for a dog romp and fresh tracks.
I'll take surprise snow "break" any time. Especially if I can spend some quality time with my family and make some fun turns!
