The girls and I went to Riverside Golf Course on Saturday afternoon to check out the conditions. We were hoping to meet up with our 4-H ski club the next day on the trails but there were a lot of ruts and ice on what snow was left.

It wasn't nearly as much fun as last time so we decided to postpone our ski club meeting on these trails until Portland gets a few more inches of new snow on the ground.

We went off the trails to avoid the ice and grassy patches.

But there were a few good places for some fast double-poling on the icy-snow tracks that we enjoyed.

We're hoping the 'few snow showers' forecast this week will drop enough new white stuff to improve the skiing conditions without too much trouble for our non-winter sports friends (who are finding us annoying right now ;).

For me, I'd much rather have snow than sub-zero temperatures ...