On Sunday, the 17th of January, 4 to 8 inches of new snow covered the ski trails at Alturas Lake. All trails were rolled twice and looked great for a short time.
On Monday, the 18th, 4 to 8 inches of new snow again covered the ski trails at Alturas Lake. Grooming with two passes of the roller was once again planned.
On Tuesday night, the 19th, 4 to 8 inches of new snow are predicted to cover the ski trails at Alturas.
“Heck…” muttered the old groomer, Davinius, as he rubbed his aching back, “this is getting a little repetitive.” He pulled down his dog eared copy of Edith Hamilton’s mythology from the book shelf and turned to the pages describing the myth of Sisyphus and his eternally rolling stones . Finishing that, he opened Nietzsche and studied his myth of the Eternal Return as he sipped his morning coffee. Next to his books and coffee cup, a deck of tarot cards lay on the table, cut to the tenth card of the major arcana, the Wheel of Fortune. The stereo was turned up loud in the background and Jerry Garcia called out from the spinning disc…
“The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down,
You can’t let go and you can’t hold on,
You can’t go back and you can’t stand still,
If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will.”
Davinius decided that for his next ski trail grooming he would “try just a little bit harder,
try just a little bit more.”
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