Mountain Life Update

I suppose an update here is long overdue, in fact if not for Andrea's harshly positive encourage for an update I feel compelled to post. I didn't/don't really think/expect anyone to read this but that is not the point, right?

So...life is good, great. The job is one that fits my personality well, causing me to do well without really trying. Mornings out here are typically my favorite part of the day. I enjoy my roommates french press and slowly sip it as i take the 10 minute bus ride to the locker room. I change into my uniform casually then head out for the day with my pack on my back. I load onto the base chair lift and ride up to mid-mountain as the morning moon still pours out shades of deep dark blue and grey through the mountain pines. This is the time I see animals, most notably and frequently a red and black fox. One morning I caught him burying a meal in the middle of a catwalk, gotta think he won't make that mistake again. Once I get off the first chair I head straight down the lift line towards a catwalk that takes me to a nice open run, first tracks, weaving by moonlight alone to the mountainside...amazing. Weather of course changes what this experience is like. Heavy winds, strong snow, dense clouds, all these change the experience but in each of its ways every day is exhilirating. I ride one more chair up to the top of the mountain on the front side and casually ski along the frontside ridge to my chair. It's a nice location to work, near the top of the gondola so anyone can reach it. I typically work with young kids most of the day, helping them load onto chairs, get around hills, etc. The actual lift operation job only requires my attention for a small portion of the day and when there are people that requre special attention, aka inexperienced. I ski down the slopes at the end of the day in a small group of liftys or by myself.

On my days off I do all of that just on my own schedule.

I keep to myself a lot at times but know a lot of people and am never short of company when I require some. As to plans for the future I just can't say yet. I would hate to spoil the surprise.

I hope all is well, I love all my family friends and anyone else that cares enough to stop by.
Byron