Ski Day #5

 Everything came together for me today to allow me to take a ski day. I had everything ready to go at 8:00AM. I loaded into the truck, turned the key, and nothing happened. Not even a click.

I opened the garage and got out my battery charger. I hooked it up and plugged it in and wham-o, the truck started.

I let it run for a minute and then turned it off. It restarted.

I decided I would head for the mountain but first I needed to stop and buy some jumper cables.

While at the Auto Store, the guy came out to check the battery. It's only two years old and it looked like it was holding a charge. He noticed some corrosion around the battery post connections and suggested they needed cleaning. I shut it off and it would not restart. He put the charger back on and it fired right up. That reinforced his diagnosis.

I returned home and cleaned the posts and the connectors and she started right up.

By now, I'm 45 minutes behind my schedule. Getting up to the mountain early is important to me because I want a good spot in the parking lot. I have enough issues with my stamina, I don't need a long walk to get to the chairlift.

 It turned out not to be an issue on this Monday morning. I got up there close to ten o'clock and there was plenty of great parking.

There was a high overcast and about 28°, with some low lying fog in the valleys. The mountain looked clear.

I skied 6 runs and then took a break in the lodge where I enjoyed the burger and brew special.

Afterwards, I returned to the hill and skied four more runs. That has my total runs for the year up to 42 runs which gets me to $9.53 per run. Three more times to the mountain gets me to the break even point with my season pass. 

I had some definite communing with nature thoughts up there today. It was really good to be up there.

It is now bed time and I'm feeling it.