Ok, it’s a little early in the season to be obsessed with snow, but it’s still interesting that the valleys remain their tawny, gray and purple November colors while much of Mt. Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak, had enough snow to ski on yesterday. Some of it was shot out of snow guns, but most of it was real. By the way, snow guns are loud and at relatively warm temperatures the manmade snow is wet, so skiing by them is like walking through a cold shower and past a running jet. Alpine skiers and snowboarders seemed to be on almost every trail, hiking up to get their first turns of the year.