Winter comes early to Seattle. The acclaimed snowboarding film Art of Flight premieres tonight at McCaw Hall. more ›

Dust off those skis and snowboards. After snow reached Seattle last week, the mountains have reportedly collected enough snow to be open for business starting this Wednesday, December 1. Details below, but do remember that everything is subject to the weather, so be sure to check the current conditions before heading out. more ›

• Good luck to everyone out there trying to take the bus....sounds like you'll need it, and here is the Big Blog's photographic proof for why you should stay off the roads if at all possible.
• Hillku had a cute poem yesterday about Metro's website's ominous phrases, including "unpublished re-route." See? Accidents, god-knows-how-late buses...Better just stay home.
• Someone snowboarded down Holgate from Beacon Hill to SoDo, reports the Rainier Valley Post. Now there's a mode of transportation that might serve you better than Metro this weekend!

Meteorologists are predicting heavy snow this Friday for north King County and the mountains, and if that isn't worthy of an exclamation point then we're not sure what is! Snow means, of course, sitting inside with peanut butter hot chocolate and thinking dreamy philosophical thoughts about individuality (snowflakes, etc.) or James Bond (On Her Majesty's Secret Service). It means reading Snow by Orhan Pamuk, A Winter's Love by Madeleine L'Engle, or The Winter Of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck. more ›

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. more ›

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 Harborview or die. We still take Chuckanut. Yes, it's a boutique route, but it doesn't forsake the task of taking you from A to B. more ›

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? more ›

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 2 never opened (as far as we know), but the second it does there's gonna be a full-on Chinese Downhill on 'Nash. more ›