Top of Outer Limits looking towards the Super Pipe

Top of Outer Limits looking towards the Super Pipe

The last couple of days, Mary has been getting out to enjoy spring conditions on the mountain. During the evening, temperatures at Killington have been just touching the freezing mark. By mid morning, temperatures have been climbing into the 40's with snow surfaces nicely softening up.

While out on the hill, Mary has ventured over to Bear Mountain early each day for a few runs. Outer Limits has held up nicely, in preparation for this weekends Bear Mountain Mogul Challenge. The seeded bumps course is in place for this annual rite of spring, although Mary has not ventured into it to try it out. The lower sections of Sky Burst and Wildfire are showing signs of erosion, but they should hold up through out the weekend to support the BMMC festivities.

Mary has been spending much of her ski time in the Canyons and at Snowdon. She was particularly raving about Chute yesterday. Being sheltered, its surface was staying a little firmer with minimal snow cover erosion as yet.

While Mary has been out on the hill, I have begun my physical therapy routine for my left shoulder. Vermont Sports Medicine has a physical therapy office in the medical center at the bottom or Rams head. I will be visiting there a couple of times a week for the next few weeks to strengthen my shoulder. If it works out well, I may be able to avoid surgery later this spring. If not....so it goes.

To occupy my time at the inn prior to listening to Mary raving about skiing, I have been studiously preparing the tax package to give to our accountant to prepare this years tax returns. Each year I am amazed at the amount of paperwork our little business generates, and the amount of time spent on preparing it all. It is not necessarily a bad process, because it does cause you to look at "the numbers" in a relatively organized fashion. But I have this nagging feeling that there must be a better way to do this (and I am not talking about preparing tax forms, but collecting taxes in general) which would have a smaller drain on productivity. But rant I shall not...

On a positive note, I did find my golf clubs the other day. I am not sure if I will be using them this summer, but I needed to get out my 9 iron as a motivational tool. As part of my physical therapy, the therapist had me using a ski pole in a variety of positions during the exercise routine she prescribed. It is a perfectly logical thing to do in a therapists office at the base of a ski resort. If we were in October, and the season was about to begin, a ski pole would be the perfect motivating tool. But we've just entered Spring. Golf courses in the area are starting to rise up out of the snow pack (or is it the snow pack receding to reveal tees and greens?). So using a 9 iron instead of a ski pole as a physical therapy aid just seems like the right thing to do... Let it snow (I think)