Remember when your were a kid and couldn’t sleep the night before going to Disneyland?  That was me last night.  Like I’ve mentioned earlier, snowboarding is an addiction and I couldn’t wait to get up and get shredding. Ooops…did I write shredding? Yeah, I know shredding is a skateboarding term, but its where I started. You can find out how easy it was for me to transition to snowboarding here. Sorry to veer off topic there…so where was I? It’s been close to 9 months since my last time up but its felt like an eternity. 5am finally came and I was already staring at my clock before my alarm even went off…almost as if I hadn’t slept at all.  But I think I did get a good nights rest because I was completely pumped…and that was without coffee.

Up the mountain we went…

Route 330 leading up to Snow Summit was a complete disaster. Bumper to bumper traffic like I’ve seen many times before. Seems as though everyone and their mother shared our feeling of yearning for fresh powder.

U-turn…

No way were we going to waste a couple hours moving at snails-pace.  We turned around and headed to Mountain High.  A closer snow resort we usually don’t go to because of its low end facilities.  The mountain is small and their runs are short…nothing compared to Snow Summit.  But we had no choice and ended up having a great time.  We were able to get 10 runs in down the mountain…so it wasn’t too bad at all.  Surprisingly, they even had a snowboard park with a few jumps, boxes, and rails.  Another positive of Mountain High is the drive home…a mere 30 minutes vs. 2 hours compared to Snow Summit…something I’ll never complain about.  No more down playing Mountain High for me…I’ll definitely give it a thumbs up next time we decide where to go.

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