The deep meaning of snow cover...

Skiers from all over the planet have always been obsessed with snow measurements and of course, snow depth seems the most important one to them.

People also boast about these numbers like they'd do about sex, and the most interesting piece of conversation I ever had on the subject was one day of last season, when I was commiserating about our lack of natural snow then and evoking the deep layers of white stuff we were normally getting the previous year.

A ski instructor sitting next to me on the chair, stopped my brooding in its track and said: “ You can complain all you want, but don't you think that what ultimately counts the most are the mere two inches you're skiing on, at any time?” A thinly veiled, humorous retort that was quite profound as well...