Snow?

This morning I was super psyched to see the weather channel forecasting temperatures to cool through the weekend. As it's finally gotten down into the 70's I feel like my body has woken up again. All of a sudden I want to run or hike or climb or do all those things that I didn't really do while I spent August sweating on the couch. In fact just yesterday I was looking up ski mountaineering races online (schedule is still on last year, so don't bother) thinking of additions to the powderkeg I could do in the upcoming months. I got into school this morning and was greeted with a "Have you seen the forecast discussion!?!??!" "No" I said and I grumbled mentally " I just got here 2 seconds ago, I'm trying to figure out if I'm supposed to teach a 90 min graduate class in radiation starting in 3 min, instead of working on my thesis, no, of course I haven't read the forecast discussion!" Well here it is for all those of you who may be interested:

MUCH COOLER AIR WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA BEHIND THIS FRONT SATURDAY...WITH GFS PROGGING 700MB TEMPS DOWN TO -6C BY 18Z SATURDAY. SHOULD SEE FIRST SNOWFLAKES OF THE SEASON ACROSS HIGHER TERRAIN OF NORTHERN UT LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY.

So even though much of me has been looking forward to snow for a long time I feel a kind of a sigh. I haven't done all the huge hikes I wanted to do this summer. In fact I haven't hiked nearly as much this summer as last. For good reasons- I've been climbing a bunch. Been working on thesis like crazy, been on tons of rescue calls, oh yea, and actually had people to hang out with instead of spending all summer evenings hiking Millcreek by myself in disgust. Still, I might have to get a last push before the snow flies in this weekend, . . Start waxing your rock skis, it's nearly here!