but, you probably wouldn't believe me if I told you how much...

Ok, sorry about the delay in writing. I have been doing snow angles for the last six hours and I was concerned that somehow what I was doing was directly linked to the unstoppable snow squall that 1) arrived hours early and 2) dumped an easy 6-8+ inches of new snow on top of the 4-6 inches we got yesterday. 

That being said, I am at the computer now with some Jerry Band queued up, and a cup of... well... something, so let's see where this goes.

Here is a picture of Hunter. I took a trip to the top of the mountain to check out 'the next big thing' and it was when I saw Hunter's belly scrapping the snow in spots that I began to realize how much snow we were getting (the picture was at 1pm...

 (We have thrown out measuring sticks... Just using Hunter this winter)

There is a dramatic difference between the top half of the mountain and the bottom, so don't shoot me when you get here. There is probably 5-6 inches in the base area.

Here is a shot from the lodge looking up the mountain.

You can see some branches that came down this morning in the background (lower left, near the coral). There were a lot of downed tree limbs today. I'd say our area dodged a bullet on this storm, had it been a little more icy rain, or wet snow, significant damage could have been done.

This is looking from our top road to Mohawk / Big Chief. Note that my dad's truck isn't yet scraping the snow. We were just at a neighbors house and their driveway wasn't plowed. He was pushing snow with the bumper of his truck when we got there.

Despite my uber preparedness to write tonight, I am going to have to wrap it up on this one folks.

The last couple of days we have taken a little bit of heat for not opening, that discussion has been beat to death. I just want to you know how physced I am that that wet snow has had the time to dry out, a bunch of new snow has fallen on top, and cold, dry air is moving on top of us all.

Folks, winter is here. Come on out and enjoy it.

PS The Pats play tomorrow night, so that's now excuse to stay home...