The turkeys almost got the worst of it.  About 20 of them ran across Rt. 140 approaching the mountain. I almost hit one.

The skiing was actually a bit better than usual.  Last week The oncoming big storm had us dreaming of  powder but the the Grinch showed up.  On Wed. It was 60 degrees in Worcester and poured rain all day, followed by a flash freeze in the pre dawn hours.  The Ranger and the keeper of the ski dungeon (100 pairs of mostly Junkers in his basement) appeared at the appointed hour.  We skinned up the machinery highway over frozen tank tread tracks and driveway plow rubble.  Fortunately 10th mountain had no tank tracks but much bare ground between snowmaking mounds that had frozen as smooth and hairless as cue balls.  They skied quite well, if noisily.  Each turn scraped up at least a dozen flakes of snow or ice and edges held.  Then the traditional liquid breakfast and bull session was held in the parking lot.  A good time was had by all!

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