There's no business like snow business

I had one of the best ski runs of my life yesterday. Well over 1,000 vertical feet of untouched virgin powder just out of bounds from hoards of tourist skiers sliding lemming like down the center of a packed highway of a ski slope at a local resort. If you think I am being vague about the exact location where this occurred, I am. I don't want anyone who might read this to come along and pirate the booty in this Davey Jones treasure trove of liquid gold. It's mine matey.

To listen to the main stream media and the stories spoon fed to them by the climate change mothers you'd think I would not have had an opportunity for such a run ever again. Just weeks ago newspapers had stories of the ski industry's demise due to global warming.

Thank God they were, like it seems they are in every dire climate change prediction, completely wrong. Either that or the ski resorts move to being "green" paid off early. Not only are the early season conditions good here in Utah, they seem to be going schussingly well all over North America. Of course, this time of year the South American resorts don't fair as well but leave it to the press to have to regionalize good news.

It should come as no surprise the news of good ski conditions is not being heralded from the white-capped mountaintops. For that would be lending credence to us nut jobs who question global warming. Even articles that mention the deep snows put a chill on the good news with reports of how the failing economy is now hurting the industry.

Of course the season is still young and an ill warm wind could take the moisture from our sails and stall our ship amid melting seas of snow. My hidden booty might well be a rock garden instead of a white gem. If that happens the climate change machine will be running full on once again. The forecast belies such an occurrence but these guys couldn't predict the results of a two-headed coin toss. I am adopting a wait and see attitude and am keeping a Pirate's patched eye toward the heavens. When it comes to skiing, it is all downhill from here.