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It is now day 5 here in Mt.Hood, hope everyone had a good Canada day weekend.  The previous three days have been quite interesting.   The last three days consisted of poor viability and high quantities of skiing.  A regular day consists of waking up at 5:30am departing from out condos 6:20am and going up the lifts at 7:00am, to say its early is an understatement.  By 9:30 we feel like its 4pm and we have been skiing all day.  Unfortunately day's 3-4 we did a lower amount of skiing due to lack of visibility so we only did between 6.8 to 7.6km total of skiing.  Yesterday as we where arriving at the mountain it seemed like it was going to be our first clear day of skiing... that was false hope. Luckily we had about an hour of clearish skiing but after that visibility got to an all time low, you could see maybe 10m ahead if you where lucky.  For the coaches they basically saw us for two gates and than we disappeared into the clouds again.  The weather out here has been a little temperamental to say the least.

Rowan from less than 15 m away in the clouds

looking down into the clouds from the top

Yesterday, July 1st was my birthday and as tradition a classic pie took place luckly for me they missed me with the first pie (dog food (I was not happy about that)) but they got me later on that night with blue icing, which isn't so bad.  Yesterday was a good day it was pouring rain, and it wasn't super dark all day and skiing was fun and i learnt some stuff so all in all it was a good day!

Now back to that dog food pie, I just want to make it perfectly clear that on someones birthday you pie them with wipe cream or something that tastes good, ie: moose, icing, etc.  you do not go out and get dog food and try and pie someone with it,  because for one its insanely gross and it will ruin your whole day and two if you where the one getting pied would you want it to be dog food?? so think about what your using to pie someone with and make sure it wont ruin your day... I was slighty pissed about the dog food thing and if they had got me yesterday would have ended a little differently.

 Happy Canada Day From Mt.Hood

Today was our first fully clear sunny all day, day on the mountain.  We skied a total of 8.4km which doesn't seem like a lot but on the ski hill it is a lot of skiing.   The sun was out all day and it was a little windy but once the sun was up and high the ski hill got pretty hot.  We worked alot on slow low performance skiing for the last five days and today we got into a little more carving mode with the majority of our runs being full performance carving.  Still tons to work on but it is starting and building rapidly right now!!