Trapped in a Ski Lodge

It is 9 AM in the morning on a powder day. Usually by now I would be outside waiting for first chair. However, on this morning I am sitting in the Alta Peruvian Lodge because of "Interlodge", a restriction on travel outside enforced by chaining closed the doors. A storm rolled in on yesterday morning and dropped so much snow that by 8 PM interlodge travel was shutdown. The buzz around the lodge right now is that the lifts will be opening up at 11, so I have a few hours to hang by the fire, meet some new friends, and listen to the dynamite going off about every five minutes.

-Steve
"Born On Ice, Perfected In Powder"

P.S. Check in a few days for my reviews of Snowbird, Solitude, and Alta. I don't want to spend my entire interlodge experience behind a computer.