I don’t mean hail and I don’t mean little specs that melt before arrival. I mean it’s snowing right now at my house in Park City Utah.

If this was a fluke storm then I would just say”huh” and move on, but it has snowed every week this year. I thought last weeks little storm was a fluke, but I am no longer prepared to call this June 11th storm the last fluke snowstorm of the season.

Who cares? I do. Why? Because…

You all break out your gear in November when there is 4 inches of man made snow and it’s really cold. Right now Snowbird is open with 3,000 vertical feet of skiing and about 140inches at the summit? Also, every other ski area in Utah closed in Mid April, almost all with top to bottom quality coverage. Plus the weather is perfect (well not today) Sunny and 50+ degrees. Slush is 2nd only to powder if you have the right skis.

But you all have to get on the hill in November and burn out by late March when the skiing is at its best.

So stop it. Shop early, Ski late.

The good thing is I have been too busy to take off the snow tires on the Level Nine truck. Snowplows in June…

It’s Snowing.. hard.

Email spam is a very painful fact of life for an online business.  You can’t miss emails with filters and it is no fun wading through 500 spam emails a day.

We’ve tried a bunch of stuff to keep incoming email related to our ski and snowboard business, but nothing has really worked until spambayes.

It gets trained based on your choosing how to classify incoming emails.  You can get it yourself at spambayes.sourceforge.net.  It’s free, it’s simple to use (but maybe a little confusing to get set up), and it works great!

That’s it.. thought you’d like to know.

Oh ya it’s snowing really hard outside right now, there are about 4 inches of new snow outside my house and Snowbird will probably be open for skiing and boarding until the 4th of July, so it isn’t to late to get some more turns in.

Jon and I took a day off on Thursday to discuss future business plans at our home away from home in Powder Mountain. Of course while there we figured to get in a day of cruising amongst the discussions.

However, 8-10 inches of fresh powder at Powder Mountain in April means only one thing… untracked powder runs from opening to close. There were perhaps 200 people at the entire resort and probably 180 of them were staying on the 5 groomed runs open that day. That left 5000 acres of untouched terrain and try as we might we couldn’t track it all up.

Hopefully our business plans didn’t get set back a year due to our selfish behavior.