Skiing !!!
12:57:56 MST on Tuesday November 15 2005 #Friday morning just before we took off for Seattle, Rachel checked the weather. It was going to rain..... and SNOW in the Mountains. She promptly checked the ski resorts, most all of them were opening that day. So we packed an extra suitcase full of snow gear.
In Seattle we upgraded the car to something that could hold ski's, and headed to REI and rented some teles.
On Saturday morning we headed to Snoqualmie for a day of teleing. (We'd hoped to do Mt Baker which had 80" of snow - but also has a sucky road that required chains, not something our rental came with :) ) As it turns out we didn't quite pull of a day - the first day on skis is a bit tough and we hit the ground a number of times, and called it a day early. Which was ok, as much of the snow had come overnight, so when we started the day the place was empty and the powder was plentiful, but by the time we left there was a pretty good number of people, and the pow had been all skied out. So that was the right call.
On the whole a heck of a lot of Fun!!! And a great start to the Season.