Snoqualmie Pass
One of the great things about Seattle is that there is tons of big-mountain skiing around the area: Snoqualmie Pass is about 
45 minutes away, Chrystal Mountain is about an hour and a half away, Mt. Baker is about 3 hours, and Whistler is about 5 hours. Well, one benefit of all the rain in Seattle during the winter is that when it’s raining in Seattle, it’s snowing up in the mountains – and as any resident of the Pacific Northwest can tell you – this was a historic year in that regard. So, one day we went to bed with a weather report saying there would be two feet of snow up in the mountain, so we set the alarm and grabbed our ski gear the next morning and went out for some wild skiing in near white-out conditions.
The snow was really heavy and wet, and it was deep, deep deep. This was a different kind of “powder” skiing that we enjoyed skiing at places like Grand Targhee, Aspen, or Chamonix, France; no, this was heavy. If you weren’t carrying some serious speed, there was no way you were going to make a turn. And, as Michelle will testify, even traversing could be an issue. But, as far as local skiing goes, this was the best day we’ve ever had with under an hour’s drive to get to the mountain from our home!
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