My feet can feel the silky powder through my boots and skis. My toes can feel it. I’ve got happy feet. The powder is so soft and smooth. I surf through it, I dance through it.
I snake a hard turn to the left and bank back to the right where the trail’s pitch tips downward. The dance transitions into a trampoline descent down deep, bottomless pillows. Clouds of white confetti burst up and over my head. Was it a face shot? Is this a white room? Where am I?
I want to stop and remove the mental fog of disbelief and bewilderment. I want to be mindfully aware, to fully absorb the sensations. But I can’t stop. I won’t stop. An irresistible force keeps pulling me down into the white deep. I think I felt snow at my knee caps but I can’t be sure, nothing seems real any more.
How is this even possible? Jay only reported 6-8″. Blasting through another knee deep pillowy drift, I wonder where the bottom is? But I realize that is just another useless thought, clutter in my brain that doesn’t matter. I banish that thought and all the others, losing myself, descending into an abyss of white. I’m ten again, on a playground and swinging, swinging, releasing at the apex and then I’m flying. What a feeling.
5 thoughts on “I can’t stop. I won’t stop. Jay.”
So, what you are trying to say is that today at Jay was better than yesterday at Smuggs?!
So, three days skiing so far and two legitimate powder days? Seems about average for you.
Day five but fifty percent powder early season is par for the course. Usually one third powder by end of season but that includes spring and summer days.
Pretty awesome that the light fluff stayed on the trail. I would not have expected that. The winds were wicked down in the flat-lands; looks like JP missed the brunt of the passing front. Congratulations.
I was concerned about wind but the lifts ran all day, no problems. I’ve had windier days at Jay both with and without the lifts running. Actually, riding the lift wasn’t too bad, I’ve had MANY days that were far worse. The wind was hitting the mountain just right, it actually felt worse back home. So the snow did stack up. Though 6-8″ really was it for most of the mountain… but I found a few drifts in select areas where it really stacked up… which was important because it really was light fluff.