Shitty week, part one

By kate on January 8th, 2004

Yesterday involved two “adventures”:

First, I managed to wangle the day off to go skiing (because I worked over the break). I checked the road conditions in the morning and found that Snoqualmie Pass (where we planned to go) was closed.

Ok, no problem, so we headed to Crystal. Both the website and the phone line for Crystal trumpeted 10 inches of new powder and nothing else. When we got to Enumclaw, however, we came upon a line of cars headed for the mountain that were parked on the side of the road. We joined the line and learned (eventually) that the road had been blocked by snow since 6:30 am! They had cleared the road okay but were waiting for Puget Power to move a downed power line. After sitting in the line for an hour and a half, I did some math. If they let us go at that point, I’d get no more than three hours of skiing (because Crystal closes at 4).

We gave up, turned around, and I went straight to work in my sweats and snow boots.

( to be continued… )