Ski jump loop is still in great shape

This has been a frustrating and depressing winter for eastern skiers. Normally, I might have switched some of my attention back to ice climbing, however with a painful rotator cuff (surgery?) skiing was the only real option for a physical outlet.

Of course, the snow has been awful, maybe the worst in all my years in the Adirondacks. That said I have over 60 days on snow. Some as modest as a 30 minute ski tour, or skating laps up the beginner's hill at an alpine slope, or skinning up Whiteface before the lifts open, or many 1.5 k laps at the ski jump trail, or a couple of hours tele-skiing at Pisgah, or 1.3 k laps around our lake on three inches of powder, and even a few glorious days skiing the Porter Mountain section of the Olympic trails.

If you are a skier, you do what you have to do, even if it's not much fun.