Even though I would never go back to snowy weather (grew up in Michigan and lived upstate NY), I somewhat envy you having a building season and a flying season. We end up doing both all year long. Especially this last winter. We only had a dozen days or so where the weather wasn't fit for flying. Today, there was only two of us at the field and I had the only fixed wing. Wind calm to 5 and more contrails than clouds. We finally packed it in at 11:30 and the wind was comming up to about 10 to 15 right across the runway. I had a good day. A dozen take-offs and landings with no major DTA's (dumb thumb attacks). Next trip out, I hope to get my solo signoff complete. Every time I read that "Joe" soloed after three or four flights, I feel really dumb. I've gone through three planes, and eight months of flying, crash, build/rebild, fly, crash, etc.

Flying off the snow must be hard. I remember from trying to ride trail bikes in it, that you loose prespective of the ground really easy. The white seems to smooth out the lumps that are really still there.

Good luck

Don