This weekend we aged and somewhat decrepit guys went skiing up in Tahoe. While George and Dave skied more days, Bill and I were quite satisfied with two half days on the slopes. I did an afternoon at Homewood on Friday, and an afternoon and evening at Squaw Valley on Saturday. Quite enough for my old body. And while I used to relish the challenge of the black runs, these days I really enjoy the easier way down.
That being said we represented ourselves pretty well in the speed department. It's all about conservation of energy and if you avoid the turns and just point yourself downhill it takes a lot less effort. However, it's perhaps a little scarier as I am led to believe our bones are a lot more brittle at our age.
As you can see it was overcast and pretty cold, but nonetheless when the clouds cleared it was quite beautiful.
While there is very little snow up in the mountains this year (we are surely heading for a drought this summer), there was fairly good coverage of man made snow on all the runs. Homewood was nice but Squaw Valley was one impressive resort - I had never seen a 6 person chair lift before - they can move a lot of people up the hill very quickly. And RFID lift tokens were something new for me too - what is more, they seemed to work, most of the time.
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