LOL, I'd probably die if I went to Alaska during the Winter time. Where I'm at, when we get "a lot" of snow, it's like 5 inches; and most of the time it's melted in the next day or two. Longest I ever saw snow on the ground was a couple years back. We got several small snows over a couple of weeks time. The sun didn't come out like it normally does, so we had snow on the ground for a couple of weeks. It's normally gone, or in the process of melting the day after it snows. We get more ice storms than snow storms here. But we've been lucky and it's been a couple of years since we've had a bad ice storm.
I've actually never been skiing or snowboarding before. I have a feeling, I'd spend a lot of time falling on my butt.
Ohh hey, that's pretty cool. Have fun at the party. Yeah, that's always good to go with someone that you know and trust. I couldn't go into a situation like that, if there wasn't someone that I knew.
Lol, I'm beginning to wonder from your stories, if most Alaskans are ab/dls. You've got a lot of them in your area.