It Runs A Tad Cold Tuesday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

You leave your bus outside in the frozen north (#1) and the next thing you know it's won a prize in the Winter Carnival.  Harder than hell to start though...

A bit warmer here in the Southland this morning with 50.5º air and 59.2º water.  20+ miles visibility and mostly cloudless skies.  Winds were out of the east by 3 to 4kts and the sea surface was smooth.  Low tide was at 10:22am +1.3' and low tide was at 5:00pm +2.6'.  There's a west swell out of 261º at 2.6' and it was a thrashing 2' to 3' with the general consensus being that if you got out without breaking your neck, you were lucky...

That yellow glow in the distance is Brundage Mountain (#2).  You can see from the accumulated snow on the carports that there was a fresh dusting of powder during the evening.  On the mountain it was a foot to almost two in the corners.  Good skiing and if you were in to a bit of powder bouncing it was good for that too.

Maybe the best part of the entire excursion was the lack of crowd.  In this shot (#3) from the bar there's a bunch of empty chairs and there's no one coming down the main Blue Bird run.  It's a fun mountain and the low ticket cost and good accommodations make for a great ski value.

Not too far from McCall is Gold Fork Hot Springs.  The pools range from tepid to pretty damned hot and there's a yurt to change your duds and snow to make snow angels.  Here (#4) we have Barbara and Bruddah Miloe hugging it up after a toasty dip.  One thing that's particularly interesting is that these springs are lithium based and not sulfur based, so you don't have that rotten egg smell that attends so many hot springs.  The lithium is supposed to be calming, so you jump in and all your cares float away...

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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!