Halle’s Smooooth Words o’ Wisdom

Michelle, Steve, Jay and Lori and I skied the Snowdome Saturday. We shared the tour with roughly 20 other skiers and boarders. I’ve never seen that many folks on ye olde Dome but given that it was Saturday and that the entire Cloudcap road opened recently the near moguls in places kind of made sense.

The day was sunny, warm, and mostly windless. On a classicly brilliant NW summer day, the views of Helen’s, Rainier and Adams were out in full force. Under a cloudless sky, the intimidating aspects of stark, bare rock no longer covered in snow and ice, and huge crevasses opening in the Eliot glacier contrasted with the beautiful white expanse of corn loveliness that is the Dome is what makes this ski our favorite way to call it a season and prepare to hang the boards up until sometime around Thanksgiving.