Did I mention how awesome this season has been? Well, I’ll say it again, IT ROCKS! I went to Snow Summit this past long weekend and the conditions were really nice. Not too shabby for a local mountain. Anyway, we had plans of getting there by 8:30 when it opened and ski until 1:00 to get a $14 voucher to come back another day. Well, that didn’t happen…not even close. Instead, we got up late. Didn’t leave the house until about 7:30. We finally started up the mountain at 9:00 to find CHP checkpoint telling us that even though we had a 4WD car, we needed to carry chains in the car. Yikes! So we drove back down the mountain to buy chains. We checked Wal-Mart – no luck. We checked the Chevron that had a sign outside saying “WE HAVE CHAINS” – not for us. Before we gave up and went home, we checked a Shell station where we got gas earlier and they had chains for our tires!! WOOHOO! Back up the mountain we went. We got past the checkpoint with chains in hand, drove up the icy roads (pretty cool), and had lunch at Denny’s at 11:30. Hm…could we still have a fun-filled ski day?! The answer is yes-a-rootie! We got to Snow Summit just in time for the start of their half-day rate. Signed our lives away for a $10 discount and went up for only $29 each. Sweet! The snow was awesome; the runs were empty; and Jes had one of his strongest days!! On top of that, Koa had come with us and got to play in the snow after we put away our equipment at the end of the day. By the way, it was still dumping snow on our way home.