Spring has come

Today was the first day JC and Greg were here. We decided to ski Vail since neither of them had ever been there. The snow was the definition of "dust on crust". Unfortunately, it was probably the worst conditions of the year, and it looks like nothing is going to change in the next ten days. Lots of sun and no snow. Every day the snow melts, then at night it refreezes. The next morning it is hard has a rock. It looks like there will be a lot of groomer runs over the next week. There better be at least one or two more storms at the end of March. Now, back to today. Since the conditions were so bad, we headed right back to US(upside-down sled). It was actually really good. A lot of people had been back there, but we were still able to hit 3-5 inches of fresh powder. It's amazing how one week will change anything. We were willing to traverse for 15 minutes in and another 10 minutes out, just to get 5 good turns. We ended up skiing that run once more, after lunch. Even with the horrible conditions, we were still able to ski over 20,000 feet. Greg is a machine, so I expect the next two days to have similar numbers. Josh was quite offended when I stated early this week that I won't be able to make a 1,000,000 feet this year. To keep himself busy at work, he planned out the rest of my trip with how many feet I need to ski each day to make 1,000,000. Now that I have a plan, I still don't think I will make it, but I will try my hardest. I don't want all of Josh's efforts to go to waste. It is the best work he has done since.......well........ever. The Ridge tomorrow and maybe A-Basin on Saturday.