SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness! I say this for a couple of reasons...

A) I work for a ski resort company. No snow means no guests. Which really doesn't do anything impressive for the ever important bottom line. Last year, the particular resort I work for opened a week early, and the following weekend opened all three mountains - incredible! This year, we opened a week early and then the snow stopped coming - I think we had three trails open, and not even to the base, you had to ride back up and then download on the gondola.

- and -

B) The snow is actually landing in the locations I generally hope it falls. On the west side of I-70, up to, but not including Loveland Pass. J and I joke about that one often. If Loveland Pass closes, then the tunnel backs up every hour when they "close" it to let the hazzardous trucks through. Mostly I hope for that, to allow a cushion, because had we gotten 18-30 inches of snow in the past two days, well, this would be a very different post. (Pretty sure I wrote one last year, just a few weeks later).

So it's totally dumping up in the mountains still tonight. Predicted to continue into Sunday - just in time for me to make a trek up for a class on Monday. Luckily, with the weather, I'll be staying over on Sunday night...and hoping to get a few runs on the board before I check in. But only if I get everything packed up tomorrow for the big move next week.