Highlight of our post-Christmas-2001 trip to the mountains:  Skiing and Boarding on Sky Valley's opening day, December 28.  Manmade snow, but it worked!
Tubing Scaley Mountain | Dillsboro, NCSmokies  |  Lachance home  |  Lachance album

Since the biys had never done this before, we started off the day with lessons from Adam. 
Turns out it was his first day as an instructor, too (he's an architect in real life), but he was great.

Drew got the feel of things in no time

John soon looked like a pro

Carrying their boards.  Before long, they were ready to ride the chair lift to the top of the slope.

Frank cheered from the base of the slope, and took these shots of us in the chair lift in between chatting with other visitors and reporters.
More from this trip: Tubing Scaley Mountain, touring Dillsboro, and our Sky Valley lodge