Tahoe delivered lots of snow. The boy enjoyed playing in the powder, and so did his parents. The girl couldn’t really tell the difference… yet. Northstar was family-friendly and worked well for us, despite two frustrating bottlenecks: their gondola at the bottom of the mountain and their shuttle buses around the resort. I remembered why I love snowboarding in powder (maybe only in powder), and how wonderfully exhausting cross-country skiing can be. Maybe we’ll do it again in 2004… but not tomorrow.