Please forgive the ridiculous amount of photos you are about to see, I was just a wee bit giddy about all of the fresh tracks and powdery falls we got yesterday. Skiing on Christmas Eve has become a Hoybook/Lodge tradition so we headed up to Ski Bowl yesterday with our friend Dave. Ski Bowl is the smaller of the three Mt. Hood resorts and is not technically on the mountain, but the terrain is steep and deep and the lift tickets are cheap. It was marvelous. Buttery smooth slopes, big flakes falling all day, good friends laughing. Pretty much the best time.
Julia and me, the cutest snowbunnies this side of the Rockies.
B, Geoff and Dave, knee-deep in powder in some upper bowl.
Geoff and B rip it up on the way down.
Dave rips it up. That guy is an animal on the slopes. Good luck keeping up with him.
Geoff, Julia and me at the top of one of the upper bowls. Again, knee-deep in snow. Are you seeing a trend here?
Julia, B and I ponder our current snow situation. "Hmmm," we ask, "should we go down this powdery slope with no other skiers on it or that one?" Guess we'll just have to do both.
Back at the lodge after another tiring day, shredding up the mountain.
Christmas Eve is best spent with friends: Dave, B, me, Julia and Geoff.
We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And, we hope the powder gods bless a ski slope near you very soon.
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