October What????

Friday afternoon all of us at the PowderCast found ourselves comfortably fly fishing Boulder Creek. The wind had been blowing hard all day and we couldn't help but notice the white squall to the west. We tried to keep it out of our minds, after all, it isn't even November yet!

The night went on and around midnight it started snowing around 4" an hour. No, that's not a mistype, it really was snowing that hard.

It was clear, Berthoud would be in ski-able shape come Saturday morning. We arrived in the parking lot around 9:30. October what? It looked more like December something! Like giddy school children, we threw on our skins and trekkers and quickly found ourselves at the summit. The wind had been whipping around a good deal, we dropped in and made some "tenative" turns. The snow was deep but the ground wasn't hard to find. At the end of the day my skis looked worse than all of last years damage combined! Oh well, in the end it was worth it...