Ski Goggles for a Powder Day
Remember last year when it dumped? The road closed for days. You couldn’t get home and you were stuck at the mountain. Man did it snow - not inches, but feet. Not hours, but days. Wasn’t that awesome? Why couldn’t that happen every time you’re there?
There were times it was snowing so hard you didn’t know up from down or left from right. You could do anything - go straight down the steepest runs, huck the biggest cliffs, stop mid run because the snow was so deep you couldn’t move anymore. The resort was claiming it was the biggest storm in a decade. And here you were, on the mountain from opening chair to closing chair, happier than you have ever been. The powder was deeper than you’ve ever seen. Your friends roll their eyes when you tell them it was up to your belly button, but they get angry when you tell them how there were no lines and no one else was even on the mountain. Every run was yours. Fresh tracks every turn. The entire mountain was your canvas to decorate with your turns and tracks. Then it stopped snowing and for two days the road was still closed and the mountain was still all yours.
It’s an experience you’ll never forget, and one you find yourself daydreaming about everyday, several times a day. What was it about those epic days that was so incredible? Was it the deep snow? The fact you were stuck? The lack of lines? As you sit there reliving the experience turn by turn, you realize it was your ski goggles. Goggles made the difference, they always do. Usually on powder days as soon as you take your goggles off your face, they fog up. It becomes an endless cycle of fogging. You have to wipe your goggles, hoping you don’t scratch them, make a few turns with minimal visibility, fall in deep snow, clean the snow out of your goggles, and then wipe the fog away. Once that process starts, it’s hopeless. It happened to your friends, it happened to people on lifts, it happened to people you pushed powder on as you whizzed by, but it didn’t happen to you.
You hadn’t realized how important those goggles were until just now. You bought anti-fogging goggles the day you arrived because your other ones had accidently been left at home. And the new goggles made your trip. You didn’t fog up once, not a single time. Every turn you made you could see everything, even when it was dumping snow. You remember being careful about your goggles, because fogging had happened to you before. When it happens, it’s awful.
That hopeless fogging feeling isn’t what a day on the mountain should be about. A day on the mountain is about riding hard and skiing fun lines. Seeing is often taken for granted. It is critical, and your ski goggles came through like a champion. You’ll never go skiing without those goggles again. They made the best days ever, a little bit better.
As your daydream continued, you found yourself checking the snow report. It’s snowing again. You grab your goggles and gear and head toward the mountain.
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