It won't be much longer...BBMR has about 36 hours of moderate snowmaking since Friday and cold nights are forecast. We might even see a strong santa ana develop and get on a real snowmaking run! With 6 million dollars spent to upgrade the "old" system it will be very interesting and exiting to see how efficiant they can be.

Already, instead of a single ribbon of white snaking its way down Miracle Mile, Snow Summit has laid down an early base on 2 top to bottom trails...plus the beginner area and upper Westridge. I would definetly say they are producing more snow because conditions to blow have been pretty marginal.

November sure came and went. Motivation for ride time has been a struggle. Maybe the lack of daylight savings time, maybe a long summer with more miles or maybe I be saving up the jam for 2007... Winter miles will add up though, as I begin the bike commute tomorrow.

It's time for me to dig out my cold weather acccessory's...including 10lbs of lead that will float around nicely at the bottom of my backpack until spring thaw. This old mans version of a testosterone patch.