Large amounts of snow. So we did the big family ski trip thing back in late February, meaning my family and some other families and some friends, all hold up in a condo for a week. Pretrip, for lack of a better thing to do I'd played the worry game and constantly checked the snow reports for a solid month point five before we even started packing. As we departed our southeast Arkansas redneck abode, fully packed with preparatory caches of peanut butter, sunscreen, and preordered lift tickets, the forecast was not so good. There was hardly any snow.

Worrying is a stupid thing, though.

Arriving on the 22nd of February, a snow dump of massive proportions was somehow synchronized with our arrival in Crested Butte. We're talking snowed like it hadn't snowed in 5 years, and the rednecks from Arkansas with the Nascar shirts who'd practically never seen snow, get to enjoy it all.

People of my skill level are lost in such powder anyway. I stumble and fall and twist my knees. There was record powder everywhere; the locals are visibly emotionally shaken by the sheer magnitude of it all, and I'm upset because I can't find anything groomed.

I am pleased with my photographic efforts. On afternoons when then it wasn't snowing too much, I would pack the camera away inside my trusty Pelican World War 3 proof camera case. The one that has the image of the obviously "on some type of African safari" vehicle running over the hard plastic camera case with apparently no permanent damage to the case or camera involved. You know, the one with the unconditional lifetime guarantee. The one thats watertight to 30 feet and unbreakable. The one who's incredibly light structural foam resin shell is unaffected by dents, scratches or corrosion. That one. I put it in my (Collin's old) skiing backpack, and put the camera inside its womb of indestuctability, and was free to ski like a maniac with a one thousand dollar Canon.

Basically I followed Clint and Lance and Justin and Jason and Corey and Ty around on several grand afternoons, and took photos of them when I could manage to keep up. I think some of them are really nice. It snowed alot.

-The End.

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