This was my second year at Snowshoe, and likely my last. Tried to camp last year and spent half my time trying to park somewhere on the mountain. This time split a room with a couple friends and ended up sleeping in the back of the van in the parking lot the first night because the room was so stuffy.

I did enjoy many aspects of the experience. The personnel were all friendly and very pleasant. The food was good, if a little pricy. Really enjoyed meeting and shooting with people from other parts.

But two hard hours of twisty roads from the nearest interstate, and terrain that was unfriendly to the point of injuring several people, plus notoriously bad weather and course terrain that made the weather so critical, just all combine to make me more likely to do something else next year at that time.

I can' t fault the " red alert" call, but there was some confusion that shouldn' t have occurred regarding the information going out that everything would be under a one-hour delay, then finding that some courses weren' t. I expect that sort of thing is something that the officials can evaluate and improve, but the slopes will still be just as steep and slick, the fog just as thick, and the summer weather just as tricky next year. And the rooms will be just as stuffy, with no way to move air through many of them. I reckon I can find something else to do next year that weekend.