A shop that sells skis has no quarrel with winter. When the storm track finally swings over Wolf Creek and the valley gets its share, Kristi Mountain Sports, LLC - Alamosa is out early with a plow, opening drives, lots and walkways and putting traction where the shade keeps ice all day. Powder up here is famously light, a gift on a mountain and a nuisance on pavement, because it drifts, it re-covers, it hides the lip of a curb. So the passes go wide, and the entries get looked at again once the wind lays down. By opening time the boot prints run straight across bare concrete, and the day belongs to the snow that stayed where it should.