Night of Lights

The annual Night of Lights at Canyon Lodge.  It was cold and awesome.  Better fireworks than 4th of July.  Big crowd, great show.

Short video with some of the highlights:

Lots of Man Made Snow...

Today they opened Canyon and Eagle Lodges...despite not having any snow since November 20th.  They've been blowing the man made stuff for quite a while in order to get more runs/lifts open.  Pretty cruddy...we need some of the real stuff.

Since we live a stone's throw from Eagle, we decided to ski a few runs during lunch to celebrate the opening of Chair 15--Eagle Express.  Lunch quickly became three hours...luckily it was a slow work day.

Christy on Eagle Express--finally open.  We can now walk to the lifts!

Click below for more pics...

No New Snow In Two Weeks = Trout

Unfortunately, it hasn't snowed since shortly before Thanksgiving.  The mountain needs snow.  We've had to go up above the main ski area--towards the Minarets--in order to take our cross country ski Masters classes.  Tamarack doesn't have enough snow to make it happen.

It's been cold too.  Yesterday it was 14 degrees when Christy dropped me off at the mountain for xc skiing.  Fingers were not happy in my lightweight gloves.  Almost lost 10.

So without good snow, we've been picky--no downhill runs, just XC.

With no skiing on a Sunday...it was time to go fly-fishing instead.  Hot Creek yielded a couple of decent sized rainbows...nothing special...but nice for 35 degrees in the late afternoon:

Here's a terrible pic from my awful phone.  My fingers were too cold to do it properly: