Mastering Marshmallow

As noted in the post below, Nancy had a really good time and showed rapid progress after one ski lesson at Mt Bachelor. It turns out that the first lesson was on a nice day and, of course, we forgot the camera so no pictures.

On Monday the forecast was for a nice day, a little break from all the cloudy stuff blowing up from California. With a good forecast, we headed off for Round 2 of skiing. But there was one little disquieting thing as we headed off that morning - we couldn't see the mountains. Twenty miles later, when we pulled into the parking lot at Mt Bachelor it was snowing.

Our original plan was to ski together on the bunny hill before Nancy's lesson, but the bunny hill lift was not running. Nancy encouraged me to get in some runs myself so I took off. By the time I returned, which was after her lesson, I learned that Miz Nancy had blown past the bunny hill and had now mastered "Marshmallow" after her second lesson.

Camera in hand, we decided to take a few runs together. I took this shot of Nancy at the top of Marshmallow, which starts off just below the lift to the summit. It is a little hard to read the sign on the summit lift, but it lists an elevation of a little over 7000 feet.


A little further down the slope, I shot a video of her zooming down Marshmallow. A disclaimer: I was holding my poles and gloves in one hand and the camera in my other hand so as usual my photography was pretty "shaky".


In spite of the snow, we had a really good time and are looking forward to Round 3, probably on Friday (weather permitting).