Family ski day

We had a birthday celebration out on the hill for Kricky's cousin, Katie today.  It was a perfect bluebird winter day.  The snow was deep and powdery.  Judging from all the smiles it looks like everyone had a great time playing in the snow.

Katie's fiance, Jeremy, took the honors of being the first snowboarder to ride up the ski tow.  It must've been slightly harder to use the tow with a snowboard.  Jeremy made it look easy.  Melissa took Jackson up the tow for the first time too.  Here is a short video that Kricky took of them on the tow.

We were happy to see the tow working fairly well today especially after all the issues we had over the weekend.  Hopefully it'll keep on chugging through the rest of the winter.  Even if it doesn't hold up I'd still consider it a huge success as we've learned a lot about the tow and what to improve.  Jay and I have already been scheming up a better drive wheel that will make it more reliable and less likely to slip.  It should also be able to pull more than one skier at a time.  With the sugaring season right around the corner we can't spend too much more time working on the tow this winter.  We're already looking forward to improving it this summer!