We got some snow last night and when checking the Discovery resort web page this a.m. it mentioned they had about 4 inches of new snow. While the wifer is pulling a work shift this weekend, I decided to motivate and head out to Discovery. It has been a long week and I need some therapy on the slopes!
The conditions were great! There was fresh snow and not many were out when the mountain opened so the snow last through about lunch time until it was mostly tracked out and packed down by everyone. I kept hitting the edges of the runs to find the untracked snow and it was as good as it has been all year up at Discovery. You had to be a little careful because the fresh snow was sitting on a hard base and there were a few spots where people had skied through and moved the snow downslope so that there was a hard & icy layer - as usual snowboarders take the brunt of crazy falls on this kind of stuff and it is not a ton of fun to ski on those conditions all day...but alas, that was not to be and we were lucky enough to have awesome conditions. The snow was great, the temps were great, and the crowds were not bad at all. It was very therapeutic indeed!
After a good day at Discovery, it was time to head home and shovel the deck, driveway, and sidewalks. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that someone had torn up part of our lawn on the sidewalk by spinning their car wheels through it and we had chunks of lawn scattered around. I also noticed that one of our fence posts was slightly askew...It seems like someone was trying to pull a U turn and decided to just back up over our lawn , hit our fence post and then punching the gas which tore up the grass. We will have to wait until it all thaws out to see what the damage is.
When shoveling today, I noticed new car tire tracks all the way onto the grassed area by the sidewalk and then actually on the concrete part of the sidewalk, stopping about 2 ft from the fence!! WTF? Apparently our house is just a magnet for disrespectful a-holes....people driving on our lawn (3 times now), house getting egged a couple of times, people ditching stolen cars in our driveway and crashing said stolen car into our car and subsequently sending it through our garage door, setting off fireworks in the street next to our house and finding parts of the fireworks in our lawn...sort of afraid to think about what might happen next....man, I might be getting old and grumpy but this is downright ridiculous....
Needless to say all that therapy on the slopes has been mitigated by our latest adventure. This town sure does make it very very difficult to like at times.
The conditions were great! There was fresh snow and not many were out when the mountain opened so the snow last through about lunch time until it was mostly tracked out and packed down by everyone. I kept hitting the edges of the runs to find the untracked snow and it was as good as it has been all year up at Discovery. You had to be a little careful because the fresh snow was sitting on a hard base and there were a few spots where people had skied through and moved the snow downslope so that there was a hard & icy layer - as usual snowboarders take the brunt of crazy falls on this kind of stuff and it is not a ton of fun to ski on those conditions all day...but alas, that was not to be and we were lucky enough to have awesome conditions. The snow was great, the temps were great, and the crowds were not bad at all. It was very therapeutic indeed!
After a good day at Discovery, it was time to head home and shovel the deck, driveway, and sidewalks. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that someone had torn up part of our lawn on the sidewalk by spinning their car wheels through it and we had chunks of lawn scattered around. I also noticed that one of our fence posts was slightly askew...It seems like someone was trying to pull a U turn and decided to just back up over our lawn , hit our fence post and then punching the gas which tore up the grass. We will have to wait until it all thaws out to see what the damage is.
When shoveling today, I noticed new car tire tracks all the way onto the grassed area by the sidewalk and then actually on the concrete part of the sidewalk, stopping about 2 ft from the fence!! WTF? Apparently our house is just a magnet for disrespectful a-holes....people driving on our lawn (3 times now), house getting egged a couple of times, people ditching stolen cars in our driveway and crashing said stolen car into our car and subsequently sending it through our garage door, setting off fireworks in the street next to our house and finding parts of the fireworks in our lawn...sort of afraid to think about what might happen next....man, I might be getting old and grumpy but this is downright ridiculous....
Needless to say all that therapy on the slopes has been mitigated by our latest adventure. This town sure does make it very very difficult to like at times.
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