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In the Village Bowl. Although most of the photos I've shown so far have cloudy skies, the weather was exactly like this for each of the first five days. Very little wind and a lucid blue that filled everything above the terrain.

Occasionally kicking back for a rest, to lay flat on your back on the cool snow and look up was an almost vertiginous experience, with no sense of depth and no reference points. Several minutes of staring up at nothing had the interesting effect of making my body feel heavier; sort of like falling without any movement - it's very relaxing. One thing that I noticed after being on the mountain for a few days was the sense of expanded "mental space", as though the openness of the landscape caused your perception of distance to change.