From now on

It all began Saturday when I woke up and realized that the 30 cm of snow expected during the night looked more like a 40 cm . I had to go to the park to groom all that snow because the guy who usually does it was lying on a Venezuela's beach with an exotic cocktail in hand thinking at everything else but snow! It took me almost a half hour to clean my car and move it out of my parking space. The joy of winter!


I spent all Saturday morning working on the trails until I finally succeed to make decent ski conditions with this too thick and too fluffy white stuff. But with fresh new snow come the skiers and with skiers come more work so to make a long story short, I spent my whole weekend working at the park.

So today, I took a day off. The snow was still there and fortunately, it was a beautiful sunny day. I thought it would be a good idea to start my cross-country ski season since I have only done some alpine ski so far. I called my Soulsis to ask her if she would come with me, knowing that she doesn't work on Mondays but she wasn't home. So I left her a message.

I decided to go to my friend's park since I keep on telling him that I will visit him soon and we took advantage of his quiet Monday morning to catch up on each other lives. He even asked me if I would mind if he would join me for a quick ski run. I accepted at the condition that he would go at my own speed (With a pair of skis on, this guy becomes a beast!) and that he would give me the time to eat a quick lunch before we go.

His ski lodge cafeteria was closed so he told me that I could go to the nearby hotel to get myself a lunch. At the hotel, the lady from the dinning room told me that she could fix me what she called a lunch-box: A ham sandwich, a fruit, a yoghurt, and a juice. “Perfect” I said. I waited a small five minutes and she came back with a styrofoam container and the bill.

$13.95 CAD !!!!

For a moment I thought I was back in Iceland! Gee...

I when back to the ski lodge with my car and arrived face to face with my Soulsis! She didn't took her messages this morning and unfortunately she was already back from her 2 hours ski ride. Bad timing...

I quickly ate my plain-white-bread-13 boxes-sandwich and hit the trail with my friend who despite his promise was skiing at an energetic pace. The fact that he was skating and I was skiing classic style didn't help either. But after almost an hour he had to go back to his office for a meeting, so we shook hands and he disappeared like a rabbit. I continued my trail, a bit slower, until I reached a view point with a nice shelter. I stopped and took the time to take a few photos of the sparkling snow and the waving shadows of the trees, like this one...



Tomorrow, it's already back to work and Mother Nature is supposed to bring us another surprise. This time +8ºC and rain! Goodbye fresh new snow