On Sunday we waited to leave till 9am thinking the roads would be clear by the time we got there and we wouldn’t need to deal with chains.  Well, we should have left 15 minutes latter, because chain control was out, yet by the time I got the things on, they had left and moved a few miles further up the mountain.  I drove with them anyhow, knowing they would be checking again in a few miles and what a waste!  I drove 30 damn miles with those things on for no reason!  I finally got out and took them off for the back side of 88, and while it was much worse than going up the front side, there was no need for chains.  The kicker is, that when we finally got to Kirkwood, we were told to turn around, because they were full!  We should have lied and said we were saying a the mountain and tried to find a spot, but it was late and we decided to just go hang out at our house and get an early start the next day.

So today we got up early and were on the slopes at 8:30.  We went non-stop for 5 hours and found plenty of powder on the backside of the mountain.  I had one of my best runs ever down the wave, which made it all worth the trip.   We rode till we were so tired we couldn’t go any further and left right at 2pm.  It was another great weekend at The Kirk and can’t wait to get back up there next weekend!