319 inches of snow this season and still counting...!

Yep. It just continues to snow! Fortunately, last weekend, the clouds lifted and the weather was incredible. We had beautiful blue skies and temperatures around the high 20s/low 30s.
It was wonderful to finally feel the the sun coming back and warming your face (or back since my face is usually completely covered!). Everyone definitely has Spring Fever up here now!
This photo is at the top of the Silver Queen lift just after a storm last week.



But the skiing! Oh boy. It is amazing - especially since you don't have to go indoors every couple of hours to get warm again! I think I am hooked! Now watch winter give us a reminder that it is still around and blast all thoughts of spring out of my mind!



This photo was taken very close to the Ice bar where I am working part time this winter.







And here I am picking my way down one of the Black (advanced) runs - International.

These were taken on the Silver Queen lift last weekend.













Usually at this time of year I get really homesick for spring. Colorado is brown and dead often until May and I so miss the colours of the English springtime: all the snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils and trees just starting to put out feelers and unfurl the first of their blossoms...
This year has been different though. The skiing has definitely brightened up the winter. I guess you really can't live somewhere like this and not enjoy being outside doing some kind of winter activity or just being in the crisp air a lot of the time - you would go crazy sitting inside! (Round here they call it Cabin Fever!!!)

Here are some more photos taken from the Silver Queen lift which takes you way up the mountain towards the peak. Crested Butte is tiny down in the Valley but the camera really doesn't do justice to the views from up there. I think part of the problem is that everything is so white it's hard to distinguish distance or changes in the terrain unless you actually see them with the naked eye...












Send me photos of spring in England so I can enjoy the flowers here in frozen Crested Butte!