The Upside Down (AKA the Whitewater Alpine Inversion Phenomenon)

Wow. We had a couple great days of skiing up at the hill this weekend. We almost didn't go because of the clouds hanging over the valley. It was cloudy in town—how could it possibly be a nice day up at Whitewater? Though we all know how inversions work, more-or-less, there's a  psychological barrier that we have to bust through to realize that it's not cloudy everywhere. For my ski partner and I, this realization hit between the bottom of Glory and the base proper, when we could see bold blue skies and sunshine.

Can you really blame anyone, though. Look at this two images below. How could it possibly be a lovely sunny day up at the hill? The clouds are bearing down on our little 'burg like there's no hope of clear skis (and it's that way again today as I look out my window).

So what to do? How to bust out of this alternate, upside down reality that is Nelson some days? (I'll take "Popular creepy TV show references" for $1,000, please Bob....) The "you-don't-know-'til-you-go" skiers' axiom works for this kind of weather too—not just dodgy snow conditions. What looks like a miserable day at 500 m can be gorgeous at 1,600. You can always take a look at the handy webcams too. 

And have faith that a day on the slopes always delivers something good. We all always feel better to have gone than not.