We were packed up and on the road at 8am and then to the mountain by 9am. There was not a lot of people there early so we were able to get runs in with no lift lines.

J and R were both ready to go.

They had the snow making machines blasting and that was what the fog was on the hill.

It was SUPER cool from the top, it was an ocean of clouds surrounding the peak. This is looking south towards the house with Mt. Spokane poking its top up.

It was thousands of square miles of clouds, at least 50 miles in any direction was just cloud tops.

It was really quite awesome to see all day.

Very nicely the clouds were staying at the base and the entire hill was free and clear. The only problem for the day was that any run that was not groomed was a sheet of hard packed ice and not run-able. The line beneath the lift is called "Dreamline" and it would have been if we could have gotten into it but the top was gnar.

J and I slid together and hit Sunrise first thing. The ridge was super and the groomers ended up being the best snow on the mountain. It was a high speed day and I was very happy I had tossed Flouro wax on our skis.

Riding lift 1 took us up and we got to see the most amazing rainbows from the snow making machines. They blast the snow up into the air which lets the ice crystal fly all around. The sun backing them made such killer views!

There were NUMEROUS rainbows visible and even inverted mirrored ones all together. It was truly amazing to see each time we rode lift 1.

After a couple hours j and I had done 6 high speed runs, 3 to Sunrise and then 3 to the lodge. With no non-groomed runs in play I was good at the 10 miles of distance traveled in the 2 hours. J felt the same and it was funny that he and I headed for the car only to find @stryeyz and R there. We all had the same idea at the same time.

The hill had gotten really busy by then and the lines were rather long on the lifts. We changed, packed up, got the boys cocoas at the lodge, then headed for home with hardly any traffic to worry about. We were home by about 12:30.

I had been watching my top speed while on the hill and was trying to get 50 mph but was only able to get to 48.7 mph. At least I can go faster than my age still.

Not long after we got home Amazon delivered the the little connectors that allowed me to hook up the Atari 2600 and the Fairchild. BOTH WORK!!!!!!! This is the controller pile I have for the 2600.

I have 36 Atari game carts!

Qbert is not an easy game still. I popped in various carts and they all worked!!! SO BADASS it actually LIVES!!!!

Off an on the rest of the day I was at the board. I am managing to get the two 3x-20 more often and am not even blinking when I get 140s. If I could just get hat third dart to land...

THIS is the closest I have ever grouped my darts. I was trying for the bull but ended up slamming them all into a near perfect triangle.

Those 3 dots were where they landed... about a 1/3 inch area...

Footyball on for the afternoon and then @stryeyz got the Fairchild going and she and R played the snake game. Incredible that the machine from 1975 still works!!! And the 2600 from 1983 still works, as does the NES from 1990... Now I just need the Pong unit from childhood and to get the Sega unit working and we will have nearly a museum of WORKING retro gaming units! I even have the Commodore unit that needs a power supply... 8 BIT FOREVER!!!!!

Today the boys are off school, @stryeyz works, will get my mile run done early, PDC is on, still no snow just cold, I need to clean up the retro units and remove the dust and dirt, Kraken will likely get abused by the Penguins, the 3d printer is giving me fits or maybe the filament is the problem... And I will keep trying to figure the truck out.

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