I needed to get in an update clinic to maintain my PSIA certification, and after having a couple of other options canceled due to low registration numbers, I finally settled on a weekeknd clinic at our neighboring ski area, Labrador.  I have to admit that I wasn't very excited about skiing for two days at Lab after it had poured rain and was nearly 60 degrees on Friday and then dropped to a frigid 10 degrees on Friday night; that's typically a recipe for icy conditions.  Yuck!  But thanks to some great grooming by the folks at Lab we actually had pretty darn good conditions all weekend. 

I managed to get into a group that was primarily made up of Greek Peak instructors and former instructors, although we did have a few guys from other areas in our group too.  We skied with Ellen Garrett, who is a PSIA Examiner from Lab, and she skied us hard,  helped us with our skiing and kept us laughing the entire weekend.  She did a great job and I took a few things out of the clinic that I'm going to work on in my personal skiing and a few other things that I'll use as I teach others.  Thanks for a great clinic Ellen.  I really enjoyed myself and I look forward to the next time that we can ski together.  And to the guys in my group, I had a great time skiing with you!  It was a lot of fun to make some new friends from other ski areas, and I also enjoyed getting to know my Greek Peak buddies even better. 

Here's a shot of Ellen and the crew from Greek Peak:



Here are some more shots from the weekend:










There are sevaral more weeks of ski season left and as you can see, there's still a ton of snow left on the hill.  Get yourself over to Greek Peak for another day or two of skiing before we wrap the season up!  We'll be fishing soon enough, but until then come ski!

Until Next Time,
Fish On!!

~Capt. Bill