Saw that which you see here and immediately thought it to be one of those things I see in a Washington online news source which I would never see in one of my local Texas news sources about a similar thing happening.
I saw this news about Seattle's backyard ski hill, this morning, in the Seattle Times.
Now, Wichita Falls does have a hill. I call it Mount Wichita. It is located in Lake Wichita Park. Mount Wichita is a manmade mountain. Made by piling up the residue that resulted from dredging Sikes Lake, late in the previous century.
Snow does fall in Wichita Falls. Sometimes in copious amounts, coating the outer world in a semi-deep layer of snow.
But, even covered with snow, it would not be feasible to ski on Mount Wichita. Too steep for cross-country skis, impossible to ski with regular downhill type skis. Impossible due to there being no ski lift to take one to the summit of Mount Wichita.
I am fairly certain there are no locations in Texas where one can ski. One needs to go to either New Mexico or Colorado to find a ski resort, with New Mexico likely being the closest, either Ruidoso or Taos.
I have been to both those New Mexico locations. But, never when snow is on the ground...
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