I took this video seconds before the wind stole my right glove and launched it up the slope, just out of a lunging snowboarder’s reach, and over the south face of Mount Bachelor. Maybe some little mountain critter will snuggle up in it tonight…

It was windy up there, and icy. But! It was our first trip to the summit this season.

And the rest of the mountain? – hardly a soul around, sun smiling, 10 inches of fresh powder. O happy day…