Prepare your excuses

i usually go with the 'treat me like a professional' approach and just leave a message / email that i won't be in and that i plan to be in the following day.

since i'm in a new job, i watch the forecast and when it's going to be good i'll take a preemptive approach and a day or so ahead i say that we may have childcare issues later in the week. i'll make the go no-go decision the night before and if things look good i use the daycare excuse (better than the sick angle cuz i don't want to jinx family).

-mc

My strategy extends to the off season where I'm chattering incessantly about summer being something to "get through". Apparently I've ruined some summers with my powers of wishing it away. Once the snow falls, those around me have come to realize it's a much a gift to them as it is to me to get my ass up there when the snow falls. The email to those that need to know amounts to little more than "I'm out of the office tomorrow". 

Just veiwing the forcast was too much, I had to go today, just in case I cant go tomorrow.

beyond excuses ... today was backcountry day #29


and the 3rd day in the row on my Dynafit TLT5 Mountain TF-Xs; not cold (but cool) in powder falling in 7-15 F temps; the downhill booster tongue is not at all necessary for my 187 Manaslus in powder snow (indeed it is a hindrance, but will probably prove invaluable on crappy snows), and the fore-aft freedom of movement rivals my North Face fire-road running shoes .

watch where you are going....probability of frozen precip at 5000 feet is going to be a yo yo of rain and snow this week:

www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wx..._x_wa_5000_snow+///3

In 1971 I quit college and moved (which meant throw your shit in the car and go) to Colorado Springs, to hang out with my brother who was in the Airforce there.  being that age, I was used to picking up work as needed so took a job driving garbage truck.  Sweet.  One day the skiing looked like it was about to be stellar so I told my boss I just had to go, please.  He said that was going to be a problem.  I said, 'yeah, ok, but not mine.."  Never went back.  Gas was 19cents in Salida and we snorkeled pow for two days..