Some of us found out at work on Friday that 11.21.2008 was opening day at Snowshoe Mountain in VW. We all joked about heading up there for the weekend after hearing about the 23” that was dumped on them the night before. Finally we decided to make it happen. Dave, JD , Mike and I packed up the car after work on Friday and headed west. We made it to Snowshoe at around 4am. The place we stayed at was nice though I think anything would have been nice at 4am. We gabbed a couple hours of sleep and then I woke up for the sunrise (all of 2 hours later) to take a couple photos.
The crew was ready for the slopes ten to 9:00. We rode all morning doing laps to the one chair that was open. It was a blast, though a little cold. But the snow was still stuck up in all the trees form the heavy downfall making a very amazing and contrasting view than what I have been use to for the last few months. The snow conditions were great neither icy nor bare spots on the slopes. At around noon we headed in for lunch and then back on the hill for a couple more hours of shredding. I headed back to the room after to score a very needed nap. Dinner was at a nice restaurant in town. Then it was back to the room for a movie and sleep.
The next morning we were up again for the 9:00am start. I meet up with Ben. Ben works in the terrain park there at Snowshoe. I meet last year when Jason and I went up. We took more laps looking for some good shots to get. I was eager to shoot on the snow as I have yet to have a chance to do so since I got my new gear. The conditions were good if only it was later in the season, with more options for shots. We made the best of what we had on the couple runs we could get to. We shot and rode all morning, then headed in for lunch and then met back up with the crew to head back to Cape Hatteras. It was a terrific trip, a bit different from my last trip, but a blast none the less.
