day 33. skiing. mt. cranmore. 1/13.

killer day. we loaded the skimobile express at 11 am. the weather people went on and on about how cold it was going to be today but it wasn't. kasmira was looking like a million bucks in her new ski jacket and ski pants. and on the slopes. she just leaves me in the dust. i make a couple of turns and look up and she's miles ahead of me. as i mentioned yesterday, the high speed quad at cranmore gets you to the top in a mere four minutes and with no lift lines that means you are getting a ton of runs in. it took me a couple to get my legs under me. cranmore is basically an easy mountain but there was one steep pitch on the trail we kept taking so kasmira could run the race course they had set-up where if i stayed to the left of the chairlift pole it was steep and icy and if i went to the right there was a snow gun creating a big pile of wet sticky snow. it took me a while to pick my best route down that and i even fell once when i caught a tip in the "fresh" snowmaking pile. maybe its just me, but i think sunday river makes drier snow. anyway, kasmira ran those gates over and over. i took one run alone around kandahar and met her at the bottom. it was kind of crusty. all day it seemed like the sun was about to come out, but it never did. we took a lunch break and kasmira let me use her itouch to listen to an osheen mix that accidentally got on there. it inspired me and we were cranking. we started hitting some of the other trails and they were softening up. skiing, skiing, and more skiing. kasmira made me give her her itouch back. we tried to ski straight through to the end of the day but i finally needed a brief break and we hit the charming meister hut at the top. totally old school and i was delighted to find i could get a sam's winter affordably, a rarity at ski resorts. the guy even gave kasmira a free cookie. i was really feeling the charms of mt. cranmore. i never really realized how incredible the view is at cranmore. very panoramic with a beautiful bulls eye view of mt. washington. then we skied till just about four. it was really a great day. i'd love to go back but that was our one free ticket for nh. maybe loon next which is covered by our gold pass. and of course, its back to sunday river tomorrow, which is far from the end of the world....