On October 4th, a La Nina cold front dropped 20~30 inches of white gold on the Mt. Baker Ski Area setting a new record for the largest dump ever recorded in October. Thus signaling the start of the 07-08 season. With bluebird weather on tap for the following day, four generations of Baker locals blew off school, work, cutting firewood and family obligations to see the curiosity of it all. Arriving at the ski area early Friday a.m. a motley crew of skiers and boarders had assembled to put in the first boot pack and skin track of the season up Table, out to Herman Saddle, and up to Pan Dome. Not be left out, even Fido was eager to put time in to break trail. After many turns, a group of normally unlikely associations united in the parking lot for apres high-fives and beers with the common stoke of the earliest start in memory.

Photo caption: Fubar looks on with curiosity as Eliot Marsh drops into the start of the 07-08 season.