[mapadu]

What it is was a walk in the woods with one of my better friends in a snowstorm. A white shadow drove us to a path in some backyard country neighborhood wilderness where winter seems stubborn enough to stay this time. There was some skiing but mostly mellow gliding through the creaking trees - weary from wind and snow plastered up and down their sides – if arthritis could speak, those trees were talking back and we were just passing through like a momentary hope.

A taste of what’s to come hinted here and there at us – just on the edge of that fleeting exhilaration that comes with letting them run in the powder – but just a taste. Eight inches of powder on dirt and rocks and stumps and logs provide few places to trust, but there are a few.

It is what it is.

http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/oct20skiing_005.mov

[bbense]

Nice... Living in California, below the snow line I really miss those little out the back door trips.

_ Booker C. Bense

[bergbryce]

I dig it. Nice early season stoke.

[Bricklin]

Always a pleasure to read you mapadu, thanks for the clip. Looks like the stuff we should be doing soon on this coast as well.