lal_truckee wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

Bob Lee wrote:
CLIP

"Slush powders"? Pray tell, what is that? Bob

In Vermont, if you can move it it's powder, if you
can't it's packed powder.

BTW it's WINTER here in Vermont. Skied the last two
days in heavy snow conditions. Freshies on every
run, total of probably 18" in last 48 hours. Sunny
bright, under 30 degrees here today.


Good for you. You must be having a fine last few weeks - the newspeople
are all agog at the idea of snow; whole cities are apparently shutting
down due to a foot or so. But for a skier it must be heaven.

Here is not heaven. But it ain't hell either. More elsewhere.


Hotel California?

A foot? If New Jack City gets 2 inches everything
comes to a screeching halt, except the skiers in
SUV's driving north, knowing full well that we can
take care of a little snow in Vermont and have fun
with it as well.

You should see what an inch of snow does to Atlanta
or Roanoke.

Had 2 feet of snow in Boston a few years ago and
a couple of friends of mine went out with skis and
a video cam and made a documentary of extreme
skiing off Bunker Hill (Chelsea). Great shots of
hucks off cars, Powder 8's down the middle of a
street lined with cars and buildings. Use of cars
stranded and abandoned in the middle of the street
for a bump run. Hilarious.