So much happens at these little hills.
I skied Wild in 87/88 or 88/89 early season while a high schooler. We drove up there from Iowa in my Ford Escort, paid cash for a room with my paper route funds. I do remember a strange vibe which we liked about the place but the early season terrain was underwhelming so on a whim and with permission from nobody's parents we drove to Lutsen the next day which was fun. We had to take a tiny one lane tree lined dirt road covered in ice to get to Moose Mountain since you couldn't ski to it yet. Was cruising down the road and ended up running head on into a guy with a little white Nissan Sentra on solid ice. Bounced off with no damage to either car. The guy was cool. First and last time I ran into someone. Hail to the 5 mph bumpers and life before parents tracked their kids on Life360 and the cool guy in the Nissan who laughed it off.
In other news with the help of a solid layer of snow and ice for the arctic air to slide in on we set a record low here in Moose last night at negative 6 we were the official epicentre of cold. Full on white knuckle driving long underwearing winter weather. Invigorating fkna.
Snow tires on 3 of 4 cars and boat off to winter storage in a friends barn this past weekend.
Chestnut blowing shit tons of snow but more hopeful that Sundown will open for the weekend since they are more aggressive in the fall but tend to close earlier than the Nut. At least when they open it is a nice long run with good vert. Either way my daughter and I will be getting some skiing in somewhere even if we have to drive the 2.4 hours to Tyrol.


Edit: Rundown just announced opening for the weekend. FKNA.
https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Su...564821132.html
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