Two months into the ski season, and we get our first powder day. It snowed about two feet overnight, heavy snow, but not too heavy that you couldn’t turn.

Ski Patrol had a “soft closure” on a lot of runs, meaning the run was closed, but they weren’t enforcing it. Here’s Nancy “soft poaching” fresh tracks on Rail Splitter.

After getting a bunch of untracked snow on Backside, we tried going over to Lookout, but there was very little open and the snow was considerably wetter.

Nancy left at noon because she was tired from working a grave and then skiing. I then did ten straight runs on Backside before work, traversing out to Sierra Grande and Challenger to get fresh snow every run.

Squaw locals like to make fun of “Flatstar,” but you can’t argue with a day in which you get about fifteen untracked runs.

Everyone laughed at me when I came in with my octopus beard.