The flip side to wet weather following Troop 4 is that for winter activities where snow is important we end up with plenty. Last weekend we went skiing at Gore Mountain and true to form wet weather followed, except this time it manifested itself in fresh snow Friday night (3"), Saturday night (3"), and all day Sunday providing fantastic conditions for skiing. All ten lifts and all 100+ trails were open this weekend.
We stayed in the Camp Read ski cabin and were well taken care of by the Read staff including having all our meals prepared for us by the Camp Buckskin kitchen staff. The Scouts played board games after dinner and watched some clasic bad movies each night before lights out, and everyone skied hard both days.
Rides up the mountain were comfortable in the Gore Gondola and everyone loved the new high speed quad to the mid mountain which is a tremendous improvement over the old lift.
Saturday we skied from 8:30am to 4pm with only a couple of breaks for food and rest, and we skied another 4 hours Sunday and managed to get out of Gore ahead of the snow storm that dumped another 8 inches of snow Sunday. If only we didn't have to get back for work and school.
