Snow, that is! Yes, finally another big snow. For about 6 days now, it has snowed up top the mountains nearly every night. Yesterday and last night was a full-out blizzard at the higher elevations, and the sum of that white-out skiing was fresh powder today.

But there is a trick involved with skiing an entire season: be in the best shape of your life!

I, unfortunately, am not, though I’m trying. After yesterday’s great but exhausting runs through the trees, I couldn’t resist this morning’s 10 inches lying in the valley and all that good fluffy stuff that I knew lay on the runs. I ran off to Les Houches this morning and got in 5 runs. The snow was deep, maybe 16 inches. I made some of my own tracks, but there were A LOT of people out there for a Tuesday. It seemed the valley called off school, and everyone else called in sick to work.

Those 5 runs where beautiful, and then total Gumby Leg hit me. I was home by 12.30, and happy to have drug myself from beneath the covers.