Change of plans...praise upslopes!

Upslopes mean lots of snow for the front range. The east side of the Divide gets southern moisture that barely any of the rest of the state sees except for the SW of Colorado. For example, the totals of the storm are over 20" for Eldora where Breckenridge only gets 2". We rarely get more snow then those big resorts, so it's just a treat when we do.

We got about 18" of snow at my house this weekend which meant powder at Eldora. The whole crew was there except one notable exception: King NIMBY. As the Rollinsville Redneck says: one of the crew has to take it for the team to get powder at Eldora. Whenever someone takes off for the weekend, it seems to inevitably snow. Sacrifice, so thanks to DK, we had 8" of new Sunday and Monday there was reportedly 13" of new on top of that. My legs need replacement quads.
I was fourth chair and got first (non-ski patrol) run down Muleshoe. Definitely 8" and the right side was just perfect (unheard of). They just opened Muleshoe after having blowed a ton of snow just previous to the storm. Then I met Marcus and Rollinsville Redneck at the bottom of Corona for a face shot, then over to Salto, followed by a Pipeline to the Gully with a ski patroller who showed us under the ropes (it's good to be locals), then a Chicken Glade, and then we met up with Hippie Stinx Danimal for a Bryan Glade, and over to Placer/Liftline and around to the front where we saw Dubba, Burhop, and Scott for a Powderhorn run. I had fallen face first in the deep on the way over (wet snow someplaces!), and when Megan and Dubba hit their faces on the snow (face shots?), we decided that was it, we were spent and headed home.

I was supposed to go meet Nate in Fernie, Alberta, Canada....but my flight got cancelled because of bad weather in Calgary. Not snow, but ice fog. I'm kinda glad it got cancelled now! The next flight out was Saturday, which would've only meant 1 full day instead of two full days...so I opted out. They didn't have as much snow as we just got...so in March I'll attempt round 2 to Fernie.
While at the airport, or because of stress at work (there's just TOO MUCH OF IT!), i'm feeling like the virus is starting to re-attack my body. After 3 weeks of health...it's back. It looks like it's another one of those years. I get sick for one entire winter, then don't get sick again for 4 years. Good and bad I guess....