Since it's been so warm and rainy here lately, the trail conditions are suffering. Soldier Hollow only has a 2.5km loop groomed. You can still ski some of the other trails but they're really mushy and you punch through to the ground easily. And actually it's less than 2.5, probably closer to 2k, but we're trying to be optimistic here. At least it wasn't raining and our Salomon boots are waterproof so we stayed pretty dry.

After our ski hordes of Elementary School kids came out on a school trip to ski. While we waited for Fish to finish glide testing skis we stood on the balcony and watched them ski. It was like a flood of lemmings moving slowly around the 2km loop. Then they would hit a downhill and there would be mass carnage, bodies all over the trail. The best hill was the long downhill into the stadium. We would cheer for anyone who had the guts to just get in the tracks and go for it since almost all the kids would just tip over instead of skiing down the hill. The other awesome part of watching was that there were still people out training, fast people like the Canadians and some other American ski stars. So the fast skiers would be slaloming around small heaps of little kid on the downhills and dancing around them on the uphills.