Fixed Skiing Costs

We are season pass holders at the Summit at Snoqualmie and so we have to ski as much as possible not because we enjoy it, oh no, but in order to lower the per ski cost. We don't love skiing nearly as much as we love accounting.

Skiing Some More

I've been gaining a bit of skill and confidence with all of my ski practice.

I gained so much skill in fact that Lydia insisted we try a different slope. We've just been going up the same one over and over thus far, which was good training. She found another green one for us to try that hypothetically should have been the same skill level as the one I'm used to. Well "somehow" we ended up on a blue slope, which was pretty much impossible for my ability. I fell enough times that I ended up taking my skis off and walking the rest of the way down. I hurt my neck pretty bad but despite Lydia's efforts I did not die. For the next couple weeks I was walking around with my head leaning on one shoulder because it hurt to hold my head up straight. It also hurt to drive when I had to turn my head to look at mirrors and traffic and such. I will never forget this betrayal.

Seattle Skiing

I must have lost a bet or something because I let Lydia rope me into buying a season pass to the Summit at Snoqualmie, a ski resort on Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascade Mountains. It's kind of wild that skiing used to require a big expensive trip to a place like Park City and now we can just pop over and ski after work on a weekday.

The place is really well lit so it's a great place to ski at night. It gets dark here pretty early in the winter so it works out well.

It's a pretty nice place.

I seem to have forgotten what little I ever knew about skiing. Luckily I've signed up for an entire season of falling on my butt repeatedly so that I can remember.