Who's Still Not Skiing?
 

Not a day, maybe a few hours of skiing here so far, but I haven't skied once
this year.

Could have driven 2.5 hours to ski in ok conditions a few days, and haven't
been interested in skiing up and down ski slopes on days I could ride, or
run in the forest.

My sense is that within 3.5 hours drive from here only Lake Placid has had
nice skiing this year.

Nothing really on the horizon.

Gary Jacobson
Rosendale, NY

2.5 hours to skiing......I dream about that.
bt - a.k.a. "25,000 mile a year man"

Skiing in Gatineau Parc Gary. Klister weather but good tracks. Surprised
myself actually. I'm not a fan of klister so would always skate when weather
turned. But this year do not have skate boots so forced to apply klister.
Had a hour session yesterday.

Tony
Ottawa


"Gary Jacobson" wrote in message
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Not a day, maybe a few hours of skiing here so far, but I haven't skied
once
this year.

Could have driven 2.5 hours to ski in ok conditions a few days, and
haven't
been interested in skiing up and down ski slopes on days I could ride, or
run in the forest.

My sense is that within 3.5 hours drive from here only Lake Placid has had
nice skiing this year.

Nothing really on the horizon.

Gary Jacobson
Rosendale, NY

In MinneSNOWta we have snow to the north, across the northern third of
the state, snow south (in fact it's snowing there right now) across
southern MN and Iowa, snow east in Wisconsin, but no real snow here in
the Twin Cities area. Under 3 inches for the season, the least snow in
114 years for January 5th. Bitter cold, but nothing in the forecast,
and everytime the do predict snow, it either turns to rain and ice or
goes south of here. Arrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!!

Ski safe, (you lucky dog!)
Hans

Have not skied yet here in central NH. What little snow we got about 2
weeks ago has mostly melted and the grass was looking rather green this
week. Very depressing.

Jonathan Scheuch
New London, NH

Well, it now starts to be definitions. The lakes have frozen and
there's fine frozen ice pellets on top. With the wind, and with very
good balance, you can V2. The legs are going through the motion more
than really kicking. Against the wind, it's double pole time. For those
who don't have superb balance, the whole workout is dp'ing. So does
that count as skiing?

We have excellent skiing 3.5 hours north of here (Giants Ridge and the
North shore. Duluth should also have good conditions (2 hrs north), but
the scenery is not as nice at Snowflake (the one place I have skied in
Duluth). The Birkie Trail (3 hrs north) sounds pretty marginal until
they get more snow. Maybe the groomers will churn up snow by later in
the week. Right now the temps up north (-10 F or so) are not appealing.

On the crosstraining front:
-Running: ok, but watch out for the shoveled areas, trail running is
good
-Biking: Too cold and too much salt
-Golf: Possible, but don't take a divot

Jay Wenner

Bjorn,

I'm going to focus on the Vikings/Packers and Beer, alot easier!

There is the man-made snow options of Elm Creed and Trollhollow.

Mov'in to Iowa,

Bill

Gary: Depressing ain't it? No snow for skiing and, at least where I am
in NE PA, too icy for rollerskiing. What has saved me is a set of
clip-on nordic skates that I got from Jamie Hess at Nordic Skater. I go
up to a lake not far from home(Lake Jean, elev. 2400 ft.) and seriously
frozen through all this warm weather and skate around the shoreline.
Not the same amount of loading as skating on skis of course but better
than sitting home.
Pete
Gary Jacobson wrote:
Not a day, maybe a few hours of skiing here so far, but I haven't
skied once
this year.

Could have driven 2.5 hours to ski in ok conditions a few days, and
haven't
been interested in skiing up and down ski slopes on days I could
ride, or
run in the forest.

My sense is that within 3.5 hours drive from here only Lake Placid
has had
nice skiing this year.

Nothing really on the horizon.

Gary Jacobson
Rosendale, NY

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:16:05 GMT, "Gary Jacobson"
wrote:

Not a day, maybe a few hours of skiing here so far, but I haven't skied once
this year.

Could have driven 2.5 hours to ski in ok conditions a few days, and haven't
been interested in skiing up and down ski slopes on days I could ride, or
run in the forest.

My sense is that within 3.5 hours drive from here only Lake Placid has had
nice skiing this year.

Nothing really on the horizon.

Gary Jacobson
Rosendale, NY




Hi Gary,

I'm about an hour below you in Rockland. Same here. (sniff, sniff).
At least the weather has been warm. Who needs cold without snow?
Last year we had that great snow in December only to be melted by a similar
heat wave. The warmth was much more enjoyable this year knowing that it was not
ruining the ski center.

I am seeing snow fall outside my window as I type this but I am not too hopeful
since it is supposed to turn to rain. If we are not going to get any, might as
well move right on to Spring.

Ben

I've been able to ski here in Ottawa (Gatineau Park) since early
December. There were only 2 days over the holidays when it rained and I
didn't try skiing, but the skiing was fine the next day. On the weekend
we had some ice pellets over a fairly hard base and it has made for
awesome skating. They are doing a great job grooming even with the up
and down weather patterns.

Chris

Gary Jacobson wrote:
Not a day, maybe a few hours of skiing here so far, but I haven't
skied once
this year.

Could have driven 2.5 hours to ski in ok conditions a few days, and
haven't
been interested in skiing up and down ski slopes on days I could
ride, or
run in the forest.

My sense is that within 3.5 hours drive from here only Lake Placid
has had
nice skiing this year.

Nothing really on the horizon.

Gary Jacobson
Rosendale, NY