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December 22, 2023

Happy Holidays!

I am not going to make excuses for not updating except I am. Snow, rain, and snow have taken up any time that wasn't taken up by badges, telephone, email, or end-of-year accounting. My old boss had lots of sayings about being as busy as the south end of a bull at fly time.

Where we are at:

There are no more new member orientation meetings scheduled for the Plumas Gym. All further pre-season orientations will happen at Sky Tavern is the plan. There may be some Zoom links coming your way for special groups.

Gear Rentals. There is still lots of gear to use for the year. Just delivered is a shipment of large-size snowboard bindings to replace the ones that were mistakenly thrown away. Yes, we store them in garbage cans but really? Come get outfitted if you need stuff for the season, but hurry!

All the skis, boots, boards, and clothing get boxed up the during first week of the new year. We need the Lodge space to go back to lunch rooms, Adaptive and SkyKid hideouts. If you need equipment let's please get on with it. Do the rental, make the appointment, get up to Sky and get fitted. Colin is off Mondays and Tuesdays but if anyone can help move gear into containers I am certain your skis will be faster than your neighbor"s.

All the instructions can be found here. (check your spam box for the return email about appointments)

SkyBridge kids. These are 6-7-year-old skiers that are Level 3P and above. Most will be graduates of SkyKids. If you have a child that fits that description please take a look at a better explanation of the group inside SkyTavern. It works and kids become little rippers.

SkyBridge Info Here

Passes are still being mailed out. Grandma Cheryl is getting it done even with all the late sign-ups and missing pictures, hint, hint.

The schedule depends on snow and the snow is what snow is, flakey.

1 pm Wednesday looking downhill while driving a snowcat over brush.

From around the 10th of December, we got a little snow but we made a lot of snow. Lars was up all night, every night messing with settings and pressures and covering the base area with snow that Mike groomed into something. It was enough to get high school race teams out on Saturday for a few hours.

Then it rained, snowed, slushed, and rained again. Wasn't so pretty by Tuesday morning. All that falling mush turned to real snow and now the place is white again. Still not enough to get anything but one carpet lift open, but getting there. In the pictures you can see the top and the back part of Sky is fairly skiable. Someone will hike through the willows and ski it soon.

If we work backward and add in all the training to get ready, it looks like this, best case. This is a flat guess and depends on the weather.

Opening Week 1 of the Jr Ski Program

January 20,21

Dryland Weekend ( First time on snow kids plus new member training. This is when job assignments happen, more about this later)

January 13,14

All instructors training on snow.

January 6,7

Other groups will be on the hill during these weekends that are not scheduled yet, such as SkyKids, Race and Freestyle teams, and high school teams. Things will change depending on when the storms hit and with how much a wallop.

I have been here a long time and seen the good and bad with snow. While everyone wants last season where we had 50 inches before Christmas, what is going on now is pretty normal.

Best quote ever from Douglas Adams: "Don't Panic!" Storms are on the way and we are not going anywhere. When snow happens, we ski until it is gone in April or later.

Depending on how the snowball rolls this might be the last time this gets shared. I can't seem to get you snow for Christmas even after burning some skis, so all I have to give is some silly writing I did about why we all love winter and this sport.

Why Ski 2023 here

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Talk to you after Boxing Day!

Bill

Pictures from Wednesday, December 20th. Getting closer but do that Snow Dance!

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