Jeff Schmerker
Soft snow.
Somehow, almost inexplicably, the snow is staying soft. Cooper is lapping the Alpine lift, handling the blues like they are greens and managing to miss random trees and the surprising number of skiers who are here. But the snow! It’s only snowed a few inches in the past week, and barely more than that in the past month, and on top of that it’s been unseasonably warm with cool clear nights: the mountain ought to be a sheet of ice, but it’s not. After two hours we move down the mountain to eat lunch on the tailgate and in the sun before heading back up, this time to the south side of the mountain.
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