Photography by Ed Book
If you’re lucky, you’ll meet Louie, the Copper Creek Hut manager. A volunteer position as are all MTTA positions, he tends the hut very well and spends lots of time up there along the trails ski patrolling and trail grooming. He has boundless energy–when I was learning grooming out to Puyallup Ridge (about ten miles from the SnowPark and six miles from Copper Creek hut) He and Bob M his co-manager, skied out ahead so we would know where the trail was… and a couple days later he skied out part way and waited a couple hours skiing off-trail to help me with a section of the trail that needed specific attention to establish a safe route. Louie gets his stamina from bicycling–last summer, he bicycled with a group about 4200 miles from Puget Sound to near Boston. I get out of breath when I look at my bicycle in the garage…
Peace