It’s December. Think snow. Lots of snow.
Get down on bended knee and invoke your deity of choice. Heck, summon an entire pantheon. Call upon the downhill divinities and implore them for yards and yards of powder.
Imagine: negotiating bulky, gear-loaded rigs past towering, gravity-defying snow chutes en route to a half-empty parking lot and in time for first chair; tucking into an inaugural run and making those initially awkward turns through boot-deep powder; feeling the burn and doing it again. And again. And again.
Cross those fingers and soon-to-be frozen toes. Draft petitions. Canvass neighborhoods. Kick a chionophobe!
Here are a few condition reports, or lack thereof:
Lost Trail reports four inches of new snow that fell Sunday night for a whopping half-foot base. The snow phone says another 30 inches should be enough to get the lifts rolling.
Discovery postponed its planned Thanksgiving-weekend opening. Despite the rain and warm temperatures, however, the mountain’s Web site claims it is not far from opening.
Whitefish Mountain is reporting 6 inches at the summit.
Closer to Missoula, Snowbowl is reporting . . . Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
Meanwhile, a few friends and neighbors report good lines on Carlton Ridge over the weekend. So, tips up, for those of you willing to put in the work.
To get things rolling, send your ski porn and trip reports to tscott@missoulian.com, and check out Missoulian reporter Michael Jamison’s article on avalanche safety:
http://missoulian.com/articles/2008/11/28/news/mtregional/news10.txt
Tristan Scott
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