Okay, not quite....

I woke up to a reported 27cm dump and clear skies. It was futile to resist. I changed the shuttle from 10am to midday and grabbed my gear.

The first run down perfection to the lift had already run alarm bells for me. It sure didn't seem deeper than the previous powder day of a mere 22cm. I dismissed it as a misjudgment on my part. I got my ticket and headed up.

The big winds had closed pretty much all the lifts but it didn't matter to me since I only had time for a few runs. I did four top to bottom runs on the Ridge Rocket before I called it. I caught up with Dean, Michelle and Lester for one chair ride up and they confirmed my suspicions that they had changed the report to 16 cm overnight! Dumb!

They were good fun runs, I was launching off pretty much anything I could find and it was mostly untracked but I found myself dismissing it as average! Looks like my snow snob training is complete ;O)

I made it back in time to see Penny off and then got packed etc ready for the shuttle.

Now for the third portion of our trip. Rossland and Japan. It's started off with a little bonus. We headed down to pick up our rental and managed to get a Toyota Matrix. This has a nice fold flat back area which is great for snowboard etc. The trouble is that it's only 2WD and it had all weather tires on it. We went back and they suggested a Ford Fusion (which is like a Mondeo) for 80 bucks more which had AWD. We checked it out and it had leather seats, sat nav, satellite radio and a V6 engine. We took it and got all those extras for free! I suppose it makes up for not getting the sat nav in the last car!

We checked out a few shops in Kelowna first (didn't by anything) and then set off for Rossland in the dark.

The roads were pretty good, actually worryingly dry actually! The funny thing is that the sat nav was playing up bad for a while, telling us we were driving into lakes etc! We ignored it and got going.

By the time we got to Rossland it was almost 10pm. I did a little drive down main street for Bruce and we headed to Richards. He had gone to a friends so we unloaded and pretty much crashed out.

Not sure how the snow will be since all forecasts seem to point to a dry spell while we are here. We'll see.