Summer? There's Still Snow

Despite warmer temperatures and longer days, there’s still skiing and snowboarding to be done.

Okay, it's summertime - well, almost - and no time to be thinking about skiing. Or so say some of us, especially my spouse, the non-skier.

And, even ski resorts turn to warm-weather pursuits at this time of year.

But, it's not true! So, say the rest of us, especially we die-hard, unrepentant snowsliders. It's always time to be thinking about skiing. Or snowboarding. Or just snow.

Somehow, I can take solace from the announcement that Down Under they've started hitting the slopes.

Or, from the die-hards who venture to New Hampshire's Tuckerman Ravine from the fact that California's Mammoth will ski/ride til July 4; that Utah's Snowbird is open weekends through May 29; and, of course the fact that snowsliding goes on through the summer at Mt. Hood, Oregon, and Whistler-Blackcomb, British Columbia.

Get it? No matter if it's a "Triple-H Day (hazy - hot- humid) in New York City, or 110 in Yuma. There's snow out there to slide on.