Yesterday I went snowboarding for the first time this season, to Hunter Mountain in the Catskills, self-proclaimed “snow-making capital of the World.” It’s fortunate that they have good snow-making capabilities, because there’s been hardly any natural snowfall on the east coast of the United States so far this winter.

I had a great day yesterday, primarily because the weather was bizarrely warm and sunny; it was much more like spring skiing in California than winter skiing in New York!