Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Based on the extensive snow coverage, no reason to think I won't be able to ski at Happy Jack this time next week.

Some dirt (road), mostly out in terrain.

All the time you go around knowing that sooner or later a snowsnake or an attack badger is going to get you on the ski trails. But in the end, what is it that gets you? An ordinary, average pit bull. Luckily, I suppose, it only bit me once, and not hard, on my leg, with no broken skin. On the other hand, I still got bit. Not good!

C • pit bull 3

Very windy, and I didn't feel like doing any more.

A very chill wind from the north was tough on the fingers. More snow this morning and arouind noon. Score another round to...winter!

Really nice skiing conditions at the end of the day. By then, the skies had cleared, there were several inches of brand new snow on the trails, there was only a little breeze, and there was a super sunset that somehow felt to me more like sunrise. The mood was good, so maybe that's why.

A mild run along the Happy Jack road post-skiing, just 'cuz I felt like it.

I just want to declare for the record that tonight for dinner I had several veggie burgers, and *not* turkey burgers, like some folks might have.

And, oh, yes--yum!

Even though it's sunny today, conditions were so wretched yesterday that lots of highways, including I-80, remain closed so far this morning. And there's a bizarre report that part of I-80 burned up yesterday somewhere around Rawlins! Can't recall ever hearing of highways burning up before.

But that's OK. I've got a shiny purple shirt with none of the buttons buttoned, and I'm going to wear it all day long.

C • shiny shirt 8

Really nice skiing, and that's no joke. If there was any wind, I don't remember it because it was nothing compared to yesterday, and that's for sure!

Definitely winter, and that's no joke either.

It snowed overnight, which was cool. And it was sunny for a while this morning, which was cool. Then things clouded over and we had a couple of decent hours of snow around noon, which was cool. Then the sun came out again, and that was cool, too. So, I thought: "Cool!" and went out to ski. Holy bajeezuz--it was like the mother of all windstorms pounding over the hills, and worse than the North Ridge of Everest in the parking lot. There were tons of cars there, but, strangely, not a soul was in sight. Once I got in the trees, I found out why: everyone was huddled there, trying to get protection from the wind, and they were going to wait until the wind died back a little before venturing out in the Dead Zone (aka The Parking Lot.) I told them: "You fools, this wind will never die." And I was right!

It isn't usually this brutal, but then it usually isn't the last day of March in Laramie either.

Skiing was great though, once you got back into the trail net. ; )

Large portions of I-80 through the state were closed through the day because of the snow/high wind combi. Lots of wrecks. Laramie was stuffed with semi rigs waiting for the roads to open up again.