Snow! Glorious Snow!

Before last weekend, it rained for what felt like 10 days straight. That's a Good Thing. For one, it meant the first decent snowfall of the season in the Sierras. And so, last weekend, I was finally able to make it up to the mountains to play in the snow.

The whole weekend it was sunny with highs in the 40's, just beautiful. Saturday a group of 4 of us snowshoed to the top of a hill not too far from Lake Tahoe. At the top, we had a great few of the lake and the opposite shore. And it was made better when someone pulled out some chocolate and a flask of scotch. It's always good to be prepared.

Sunday I snowboarded while another in the group tele skied. I was glad to find that I hadn't forgotten everything in the year that has passed since I last went. Still going slow and making really wide turns, but at least my friend says I have good form. At one point I decided to try linking a bunch of turns really quickly, which of course resulted in catching an edge and landing on my back. I just went with it, kicking my feet over my head, rolling into a backward somersault, sticking the toe side of my board in the snow, standing up, and continuing on my way. It must have looked pretty cool. At least in my own mind.