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Base depth?
Does anyone know how they measure the base depth on ski hills? I assume
there is some kind of method to this? |
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GoHabsGo wrote:
Does anyone know how they measure the base depth on ski hills? I assume there is some kind of method to this? They take a long stick that's calibrated like a yardstick, go to the place on the hill where the snow has piled up the deepest and insert the stick at a 45 degree angle. Then they take this number and add 50%. HTH HAND //Walt |
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Walt wrote:
They take a long stick that's calibrated like a yardstick, go to the place on the hill where the snow has piled up the deepest and insert the stick at a 45 degree angle. Then they take this number and add 50%. Unless they don't feel like it, in which case they make something up. Neil |
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Walt wrote in :
GoHabsGo wrote: Does anyone know how they measure the base depth on ski hills? I assume there is some kind of method to this? They take a long stick that's calibrated like a yardstick, go to the place on the hill where the snow has piled up the deepest and insert the stick at a 45 degree angle. Then they take this number and add 50%. I subscribe to snow report mails for the resort which I will visit (Morzine this year) and the variation in time that the mail arrives gives me this mental image of a somewhat older French guy, eating a croissant for breakfast, with some coffee, looking out how the weather is, and then slowly walking up the mountain to the correct measuring place, inserting the long stick into the snow, taking notes in his age-old notebook and skiing back down, and reporting the result via phone or webbrowser to the network of snow measurements. Maybe muttering some french none of the non-french people can understand about the weather and how the snow used to be much better back when. After that it probably gets more high-tech. But that's my imagination at work Koos van den Hout -- Koos van den Hout, PGP keyid DSS/1024 0xF0D7C263 via keyservers or RSA/1024 0xCA845CB5 -?) Fax +31-30-2817051 Visit the site about books with reviews /\\ http://idefix.net/~koos/ http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ _\_V |
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Base depth?
Does anyone know how they measure the base depth on ski hills? I assume
there is some kind of method to this? They take a long stick that's calibrated like a yardstick, go to the place on the hill where the snow has piled up the deepest and insert the stick at a 45 degree angle. Then they take this number and add 50%. ROTFLMAO! Some resorts have permanent snow stakes that are actually inserted vertically. Most of the time they are in a spot that gets wind-loaded so there is still some exaggeration. I remember one year when Squaw Valley reported 36" of snow and I was easily able to find dirt anywhere on the mountain that was coevred enough to even be open. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Base depth?
Were not at all happy with the published base depths and so are looking
at purchasing our own weather station for our site http://unofficialsquaw.com. No luck though in finding something that is accurate. For the best results you can use our weather page http://unofficialsquaw.com/beta/weather/ or this site from the national weather service: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snotel/...m=784&state=ca Here's a link to their info page which contains a brochure on how they get their data: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/publica...actsheets.html -John On Jan 17, 9:16 pm, "Mike T" wrote: Does anyone know how they measure the base depth on ski hills? I assume there is some kind of method to this? They take a long stick that's calibrated like a yardstick, go to the place on the hill where the snow has piled up the deepest and insert the stick at a 45 degree angle. Then they take this number and add 50%.ROTFLMAO! Some resorts have permanent snow stakes that are actually inserted vertically. Most of the time they are in a spot that gets wind-loaded so there is still some exaggeration. I remember one year whenSquawValley reported 36" of snow and I was easily able to find dirt anywhere on the mountain that was coevred enough to even be open. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==----http://www.newsfeeds.comThe #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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