Gone skiing!

Yesterday I went skiing, not for the sheer pleasure of it, but just to preview the skiing conditions that my daughter is likely to encounter on Christmas day when she’s with us and she decided to make a few turns with me then. 

It was 2 pm when I left home, the temperature was 53 degrees and when I get to the Canyon Village at Park City Mountain, there were few skiers, but the man-made snow that was the only way to go was the same quality that skiers would find at the end of April: Pure, unadulterated slush! 

Even on mid-mountain, at 8,500 feet, there was just a dusting of snow left and the man-made snow was eroding badly and one could spot rock through the translucent thin cover. The hard work put out by the resorts to make snow is going to waste. The few artificially snow covered runs were also very tricky, not dangerous to navigate! Gone skiing!

Skiers and snowboarders were having a tough time handling that heavy snow in what would turn into a mogul run in all the steeper portions of every run. I guess we’ll need a miraculous dump of cold snow to go skiing during the Holidays, but looking at the forecast, I’m not so hopeful! 

Al Gore was right almost 20 years ago, in 2006 when he published his book “An inconvenient truth”. We were only 6.6 billion on this planet, now we’re almost 8.3! We didn’t listen well, did almost nothing, and are crashing right into the wall.