Skiing On My Mind

Well I usually take the bad news first…

It is a few days until Thanksgiving and there is little to no skiing to be had. People are starting to get a bit cranky? Everybody is anxious, and there is nothing to do but wait. The temperatures have not even been getting low enough to make good snow, and the Vermont ski areas are pushing back their originally planned opening dates. It’s not even looking good for a Thanksgiving Weekend opening. That is the bad news.

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It is true that every day or week feels like an eternity in November when you are waiting for the lifts to turn, BUT…… There’s still hope! Here is my theory. In the past when we’ve had an early start, with good skiing in November, it has all been green by New Year’s, and never lasting much into April. So, we might be starting a little late this season, but when it hits, it is going to hit HARD, and last LONG. Its going to be a deep winter in VT. For sure. Aside from this slow start, all the other signs are good. The farmer’s almanac says “Cold and Snowy,” the Wooly Bear caterpillar has an extra long black band on a heavy coat of fur this year, and the old woodsman that I talked to the other day said the Bee Hives were built extra high in the trees, clearly calling for a deep, deep snow winter.

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So, if I were you, I’d have your skis ready, knowing that this Winter is going to be the best one yet!
Think it, Live it, Love it…..SNOW (sooner or later)

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Yup.  It’s early November, aka,”stick season” in Vermont.  The leaves have blown off all the trees, the weather is not that great, there’s no skiing to be had yet, and the sun in setting at like 4:30 pm.  Ouch.  Man, it is not motivating when it gets dark that early.  I guess I’m  just coming down from some ski movie premiere’s and an awesome fall.  Not to mention that it has already dumped in Utah.  That place is ridiculous.  I think I’m going to start doing a late October ski trip.  Seriously. 

   Maybe it would be better to call this time of year, “the calm before the storm.”  Things are definitely calm around here right now, but perhaps that means big storms to come!

http://science.howstuffworks.com/calm-before-storm1.htm