Opening Day

This Saturday, Boston Mills started off the season of skiing and snowboarding in Ohio. Actually they kind of started the season. There were only 2 hills open and they had less than good snow coverage. The rest of the place was covered in grass because most of the man made snow melted.
This was one of the latest openings of the resort for quite some time. Usually they are fully operational by this time in December. The reason for this is the weather of course. Whenever it was cold enough to make snow, they tried and then a few days later temperatures would go well above freezing and melt all of the snow. I am predicting that Boston Mills and Brandywine will not be fully operational until early January.
Even with the poor snow conditions and limited open area it was still a good day of riding. It felt good to finally be out on the slopes and the snow again. I went with a friend, early so we could be there before the crowds. It was snowing pretty heavy on the way there and back and I saw a pretty serious car crash. The whole way there and back I  was debating if it was worth all of the fuel I used to get there. Finally, I decided it was because I finally went snowboarding for the 2011-2012 season.