With temperatures today solidly in the low, mid-50s and sun shining down on us, it’s hard for this Seattlest to believe that just this past weekend we were skiing at Mt. Baker in the best powder we’ve encountered. You probably remember last week’s disgusting wet weather and cold temperatures which brought big, fat, wet snowflakes to the sea-level environs of Seattle. We sure do, since the non-sticking white stuff scared the bejesus out of every......

When driving to Seattle from Bellingham in nice weather, it is impossible to be in so much of a hurry that the speed of I-5 is preferable to the greatness that is Chuckanut Drive. Say Seattlest was snowboarding at Baker. We lose an edge and knock our head on a tree, and then while we're lying there seeing stars someone comes speeding past and skis right through our carotid artery. We have to get to......

One of the odder snowboard stories we've heard this season surfaced at the Hopvine last night when a friend of ours asked, Did I ever tell you how I dislocated my shoulder? No, we said, you mentioned you dislocated it but the Vicodin had you topic surfing. The story goes like this: E. (actual initial) is up at Whistler snowboarding and has an uneventful wipe-out, sliding on his butt to just slightly out of bounds,......

Dammit, neither were we. For opening day, Mr. Seattlest got up in the wee hours and was in lot 2 about 30 minutes before the lift opened, ending up about 20th in line. The guys waiting for first chair up front were drinking PBR tall boys and said (and acted like) they'd been there since about 7am. With a base of about 51", it was an excellent start. Snow was a bit heavy, and chair......