Phew...well after all the weather forecasts we actually got off quite lightly and just had a powder coating of snow at our altitude but up on the mountain it dumped big time. In fact they have had 64" in the last 7 days so the skiing is probably excellent.

Still way too busy on the farm and with other projects to even start to think about skiing this week.

I have found some great tree stakes in a catalogue by a company called Gemplers each stake is about 30" long and has a blade so you can literally screw it into the ground and once in it has a holding weight of 2,500 lbs which is pretty impressive. You can boy a box of 12 for $60 so they are also quite affordable.