I took yesterday off and today finally went skiing, the first time this season! We drove to Steven's Pass, which is about an hour and a half drive from south Seattle. We got a late start to the day and didn't actually start skiing until about 3pm, which turned out to be advantageous for a few reasons: the price of the ticket was ~$30 vs. ~$50 if we had started skiing in the morning; we found a parking space very close to the entrance (judging by the size of the lots, it seems as if there could be parking problems there during peak periods); as the day turned into evening, and the evening into night, there were was an incremental decrease in the number of people out on the slopes. By 9pm, it was almost empty and it felt very quiet and peaciful to be skiing in partial darkness. I really liked skiing at night. The only issue we encountered was the persistent fog (pattern: in the middle elevation of the slopes, mostly on the left and right slopes). It sort of looked this recent picture from Steven's Pass' Web Cam.

I took my Garmin Forerunner with me and my fastest recorded speed was ~34 mph, which is not very fast when compared to biking downhill (or the normal speeds of professional downhill skiers).

Total: Downhill Skiing!

[Backdated on 03/07/2007]