Ski Day #7- Blower Pow+Huck =Faceshots (Windham Mountain, NY)

This post is coming a little later than I wanted to write it, but it has been a busy weekend with the Army-Navy Game this past Saturday. Anyway, last Wednesday and Thursday Winter Storm Damon came in and dumped about 2 feet of snow in the Catskills. Here are the take aways from that storm and the ski day that followed:

1. Being a ski bum means texting your boss at 6 PM during a snowstorm asking to use vacation the next day because you just read that 18 inches of fresh fell on a nearby ski area.

2. Having a part-time job doing snow removal makes your body tired before even showing up on a powder day, but it's all good, because those freshies are worth it.

3. Skiing mid-week is pretty tight because the only people that show up are other rippers that skipped work because they know the day will just be killer.

4. Hucking cliffs is pretty awesome, and when your landing in blower pow, be prepared for some pretty big faceshots.

5. Its a pretty special feeling to show up to the liftline and see noone is there to beat you for first chair. That feeling then gets better when the liftie comes by and says "Hey man, we don't open for another 15 or 20 minutes" and you respond by pointing at your beer in the snow saying "Its all good bro, gives me time for that to get cold."

6. Eastern skiers that have not lived out west are afraid of fresh snow because I was still finding freshies well into the afternoon.

-Steve
"Born on Ice, Perfected in Powder"