Foreshadowing

After a great nights sleep we were eating breakfast this morning talking about our plan for the day. SKIING! We talked about how we had managed to pull off our hair-brained plan to ski as we were moving across the country.

Odin and John both are in love with the moving van. I think they will be really sad when they have to turn it in!



As we finished I was going to check the weather to make sure I had the right long underwear combo on. It was then that I noticed that there was a winter storm warning for pretty much all of Montana that we were going to be driving through. Now snow itself is not a huge problem, but snow + mountain passes (with little visibility and possible chain restrictions) + giant moving van is not the best equation. Begrudgingly we decided not to go skiing today. The storm tracking was looking like it would begin in the afternoon and continue through Thursday. So innstead of going skiing we went back to the car and truck. The plan: drive the 207 miles to Missoula. Seemed like a great plan until we got to Homesteak pass outside of Butte MT. As soon as we starting going uphill it looked like this:

and then a few minutes later like this:


It cleared up on the top of the pass and another snow squall hit after we arrived at our hotel in Missoula. We went for a swim, sat in the hot tub (there are 8 to choose from) and had some dinner.
The second part of our new plan is to get up tomorrow morning and drive to Lookout Pass ski area on the Montana /Idaho border. We all really want to go skiing.