Cold Chairs and Starlight

We attended the first of four Friday evenings of fun and ski racing last night.

Fairmont Resort is hosting its twenty-fourth annual Starlight Challenge on the slopes of its small ski hill and the usual crowd of skiing rowdies were there in full force.

Our team of four equally rowdy members consisting of myself, George and two other friends, were on top of things last night...mostly.

My ski racing experience is rather limited and my moderate times on the course drove that fact firmly home.

The sky was was singing cold, accented by bright pinpricks of light piercing its dark dome.

As the full moon rose over the eastern peaks it brought the folds of the valleys and bowls into sharp relief.

On the ride up, we did our best to avoid contact with the icy metal of the chairlift and we were forced to leap and jump about at the top in order to revive the circulation to our numb limbs.

Following our two runs through the course, we did a sharp right turn into the lodge where a warm fire in the fireplace and cold beer on the table welcomed us.

* The above photo is of Thursday's sunset over Bell's Landing at PMV.