Is this the best winter ever? It is too early to tell but we certainly have one in the making. Up near the lake it seems we get a just enough white stuff every evening to freshen things up for the next day’s ski. The big storm ten days ago came with all sorts of bitter cold warnings and I think it has kept people inside. Peggi and I were the only ones skiing in Durand for five of six days after. And I mean the only ones.
Now that the temperature has climbed above twenty we are seeing more people out but there seems to be almost as many snowshoers as skiers. Cross-country has always attracted an older set and the showshoers all seem younger so maybe it is just a demographic shift.
I prefer it in the teens. The snow is lighter and the crisp temperature spaces you out. Peggi calls it, “the rapture of the white.”
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