Powder to the People

I have to force myself each year to remember why the ski areas close with more snow than they had at any time during their open season. It has some things to do with migrating game and migrating employees and sports enthusiasts who venture off to their high-water sport locales. It also has to do with the fact that no matter what phrase they use to describe the lightness of the snow where you live, it all turns to cement by 1pm on a 50 degree April day. Your best hope is for a good corn season if it snows hard in Early April and gets warm by tax day for May Day corn. This weekend is the last blast at many areas or a bookend to the last week of skiing. It has been a tough season for me to be able to get out skiing. Today represented day 72 for me this season, well down from the usual 100 days or more I would normally have by now. Get out there and enjoy the last blast of winter whether you want it to end or not.