The Smell-of-Winter Thread

**Lynx** · 09-20-2004, 01:09 AM

When: today, sunday September 19th
Where: Mammoth, CA

how it went down....woke up in a motel room this morning in mammoth...my friend peaks outside the window and says, "hey, it snowed" i see a brief glimmer of white across the room through the curtain so i get up to investigate for myself...as i step closer i see the bits of white accumulated on the adjacent roof and throw my arms up in joy yelling GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLL!!!! (don't ask me why but it seemed better than yelling "woo" at the time). it snowed more during the morning and as we walked to get breakfast we saw more snow up in the surrounding hills. it smelled liked winter.

**supercastor** · 09-20-2004, 01:30 AM

Listening to swedish sad songs while driving this morning made me in a special mood. Cold sun above, Les Pyrénées almost invisible far south, their peaks clean white for the first time in months, I was like trapped in time, like the tide was coming back again after too much time far from the shore.
Winter.
This is not just a childish game, chatting and babbling about snow and all. This is life, commitment, addiction. And I like it so much when my heart beats like that. Winter is good for health

that should be written somewhere, like, you know, on cigarette packs : "smoking kills", "Winter alives".

have a great day, my gear's almost packed.

**Tresckow** · 09-20-2004, 01:45 AM

It smells like winter and soggy boots around here.

I just took a stroll around the village, and as quiet and alone as it always is at 1am, the motion of steady falling snow was like having an old friend to walk and chat with.

Welcome back

**midget** · 09-20-2004, 02:40 AM

2:30am in Park City. Lumpy Rain. Can't wait to wake up to snow on the ground in the morning!......Although I won't be driving anywhere with my summer tires on.....

**FreakofSnow** · 09-20-2004, 05:52 AM

Flakes quietly falling in Bozeman this morning.

The wife was leaving at 5am in this morning, she woke me up, "There's no power and its snowing."

I sat up in bed and stumbled through the living room out to the window. I glared at the street light, on the other side of the street (which did have power).

Ah that familar sight of buzzing flakes in the orange glow. Bring in on old man Winter.

**Mountainman** · 09-20-2004, 07:54 AM

Still Falling in Bozeman.

Feels like a powder day and i should be getting my gear rounded up to head to the hill

**fez** · 09-20-2004, 08:18 AM

id love to tell you what i was doing when i noticed it snowing in bozeman, but my wife would kill me.

[edit] just saw that up to 18" is expected in the bitterroot by tomorrow! w00t w00t

**SpankyRamblwood** · 09-21-2004, 10:33 PM

PSSSt! Smell my finger, it may have some winter on it!

**summit** · 09-21-2004, 10:43 PM

2230 Keystone, CO (and in the least snowy part of Keystone, which is the least snow part of this county)

http://www.soulskier.com/summit/snow.jpg
4-5" still snowing