Last fall we picked up ski equipment for Tyla at the ski expo, but we haven’t had a chance to try it out until last weekend. January and the first half of February saw almost no snow fall in the Cascades, but thankfully that has ended and it is dumping again. Saturday was the perfect combination of good conditions (snowed a day or two before), perfect blue skies and temps around 30 degrees. Time to go skiing with Tyla!
We used the two free lift tickets that we won from a WildWashington.com giveaway and upgraded them to include gondola access for $8/each. Those gondola tickets proved to be well worth the money as the views were incredible! Visibility was essentially unlimited. We could see Adams, St. Helens, Baker, the Olympics, the Puget Sound, and of course, Rainier. The sun felt good but it wasn’t hot enough to melt anything. We had nice packed powder all day long with no sign of ice.
Tyla will tell you she’s not a good skier, but every time we’ve gone out I’ve been amazed at how quickly she progresses. I’d love to see what would happen if we could ski a few days (or at least weekends) in a row!
When we took a break for lunch, she told me to go take a run by myself so she could rest so I buzzed up Chair 6. The snow was a bit sticker/thicker than I expected but I managed not to tumble over any cliffs with my wife watching.
Pictures are posted in the photo gallery. While we were at the gondola unloading area, I snapped off a bunch of pictures in hopes of getting a good panorama. It’s not perfect, but I liked it enough to make it the new header photo on the site. You can download the full resolution version of it too.
