So last week up the hill was the usual mix of fun and games! With a little disaster thrown in too :( Alison buggered her MCL . . . Andy and Dave managed to scare the snow away for nearly a full week and Andy managed to coin a new phrase:

"The snow is ME deep"

:)

Here are a couple of pics, I wish Smurf was there to play too :~( In a couple of months it will be all good!

Despite what Smurf may say, this is actually me and it is NOT a superimposed image from the meadows standard gallery . . . . women ;)


Andy found a flat-down rail and promptly had to "HAVE-IT!"




Dave is practising to be a stick man stuntman . . .



A great shot from Andy at the end of the day. Just need to shop out that board in the bottom right and he could mint it with that pic!


There are other pics in bars and stuff, but this is all about the snow :) This will be my last full season for a couple of years and I am already pretty depressed about that. Really trying to make the most of the mountain and the conditions. We have already surpassed the YEARLY snow full average and we are less then 1/2 way through the season. It truely is epic this year.

So I am sat here with some of the best snow conditions Mt Hood has ever seen, yet I am stressed . . .

With snow this good right now, will it still be epic in 12 days when the guys are here? I hope so but I need to make time to look at the forecasts. . . .

So today trucks are getting stuck at Govvy, even with chains on, here is a piccy of the HWY 26, can you even tell it's a highway???



Here is the bottom of Meadows, looks amazing up there . . . Wish I wasn't working :(



And here is the snowfall history, this season versus last season . . So far this season 337 inches of snow compared to the same time last year 193. Yearly average is 400 . . . . This is an epic year already .. . Blue line is this season pink line is last season.

New TV shows on in the USA: American Gladiators. This is pretty good, a lot harder hitting then the original or the old UK version. And they have Hulk Hogan presenting, much better then John Faschnu!

Secondly . . Well, click here and here, tell me you don't want to see it . . .

So New Year, new challanges :) Kate has agreed to marry me, we are aiming for the 22nd March. More news to follow in about 10 days on that one!

The subject of this post is snow. Lots of snow :) Not as much as Tahoe 5 feet in 24 hours! but still a lot of great snow. We have had a storm here for pretty much 3 straight weeks. I have caught something like 6 straight powder days. How amazing is that!

Today I was a little pissed off I had no one to ride with, it happens from time to time, I had a great 1st hour but I realised I was just hitting the same old areas. I needed to find something new in time for the boys coming over. So I signed up for the Meadows Frontline guide at 11am. It cost $20, but in retrospect I would have paid $40 for those 2 hours of riding. I was in a group of 5 riders with 1 instructor (Jason). We hit a lot of steep and deep trees, untouched freshies all over, I was in 3-4 feet of snow! If it was not so steep I would have had problems. We hit 4 1/2 bowl, dropping in through some trees, Andy is going to love that. Found some sweet natural hits, on one I got too much air and had a serious flappy hand moment!!!

I want to go back up now and do it all again.