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I'm back :)
Although not officially excited until October, I'm starting to think a
lot about snow again. Weather is finally cooling off in the Bay Area. Stores starting to have pre season sales. Sure seems like ski season is just around the corner! I'm a little (just a little) nervous, as I graduated to more advanced gear at the end of last season, and I hope I can handle it okay after the summer. Meanwhile, time to scope out which hotels have good internet, for playing WoW in the evenings Lisa |
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Lisa Horton wrote:
Although not officially excited until October, I'm starting to think a lot about snow again. Weather is finally cooling off in the Bay Area. Stores starting to have pre season sales. Sure seems like ski season is just around the corner! I'm a little (just a little) nervous, as I graduated to more advanced gear at the end of last season, and I hope I can handle it okay after the summer. Meanwhile, time to scope out which hotels have good internet, for playing WoW in the evenings Lisa a) I've been skiing more than 50 years and EVERY year just before the first day, I'm so nervous I can hardly eat and that's saying something. b) More advanced gear is generally not more difficult to handle, especially if you have your edging down pat. More advanced skis are stiffer torsionally with proportionally more edge in contact with the snow at any given time. A light touch on easy conditions is a must. More advanced boots are stiffer laterally. They help you make the most of the greater edging ability of your skis. In all likelihood, your skis will still be fairly soft longitudinally and still be easy to initiate a turn. Don't fret. It'll all come together approximately 20 minutes after you are on snow. VtSkier |
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Lisa Horton wrote:
Although not officially excited until October, I'm starting to think a lot about snow again. Weather is finally cooling off in the Bay Area. Stores starting to have pre season sales. Sure seems like ski season is just around the corner! Ours is juddering to an early, ignominious end. It's been very ordinary all season, with a warm trend causing rain before each snow, but the snow cams last night showed soooo much mud!!! They won't recover from this. I have to test some skis and it'll have to be this week, so I've taken a few days off and might head up there for one day, but I'm not looking forward to it. Our season is meant to go until the October long weekend, but looking at the cams, there is no way. Even if it snows (and it might with this current system), it'll be snowing on mud. I seem to enjoy skiing in the US much more these days, to the point where my ski choice has to be for skis that need to ski deep ungroomed on a very regular basis. I love the Stockli Laser SCs, which do everything well including bumps, but I've heard reservations about soft snow. I'll test them again anyway but if they aren't good in that, I won't buy them! And it'll have to be Stormriders. -- ant |
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ant wrote:
Lisa Horton wrote: Although not officially excited until October, I'm starting to think a lot about snow again. Weather is finally cooling off in the Bay Area. Stores starting to have pre season sales. Sure seems like ski season is just around the corner! Ours is juddering to an early, ignominious end. Goodness, I thought you were talking about your cricket team then - coming off for bad light when you need a win ? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! |
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BrritSki wrote:
ant wrote: Lisa Horton wrote: Although not officially excited until October, I'm starting to think a lot about snow again. Weather is finally cooling off in the Bay Area. Stores starting to have pre season sales. Sure seems like ski season is just around the corner! Ours is juddering to an early, ignominious end. Goodness, I thought you were talking about your cricket team then - coming off for bad light when you need a win ? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! well, we leave the panicking to your lot. Who appear to need quite a bit more catching practise. maybe they should chip in and get the wicket keeper larger gloves? Our commentators (Dean Jones and Greg Matthews) have named him "cymbals". -- ant |
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ant wrote:
BrritSki wrote: ant wrote: Lisa Horton wrote: Although not officially excited until October, I'm starting to think a lot about snow again. Weather is finally cooling off in the Bay Area. Stores starting to have pre season sales. Sure seems like ski season is just around the corner! Ours is juddering to an early, ignominious end. Goodness, I thought you were talking about your cricket team then - coming off for bad light when you need a win ? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! well, we leave the panicking to your lot. Looks like your lot are the ones panicking. Off for bad light AGAIN ? Has nobody told Ponting he needs a win, not just a draw ? Looks like he's getting his excuse ready for losing the series "that bloody pommie weather mate". Who appear to need quite a bit more catching practise. maybe they should chip in and get the wicket keeper larger gloves? Our commentators (Dean Jones and Greg Matthews) have named him "cymbals". Yeah, it's shocking. Just as well though, or we'd be leading 3-0 and not just have won but have humiliated you |
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BrritSki wrote:
ant wrote: BrritSki wrote: ant wrote: Lisa Horton wrote: Although not officially excited until October, I'm starting to think a lot about snow again. Weather is finally cooling off in the Bay Area. Stores starting to have pre season sales. Sure seems like ski season is just around the corner! Ours is juddering to an early, ignominious end. Goodness, I thought you were talking about your cricket team then - coming off for bad light when you need a win ? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! well, we leave the panicking to your lot. Looks like your lot are the ones panicking. Off for bad light AGAIN ? Let's hope your lot want to actually play the game to a finish, rather than backing off and using light as their excuse. Has nobody told Ponting he needs a win, not just a draw ? Looks like he's getting his excuse ready for losing the series "that bloody pommie weather mate". He didn't want to lose the top order, who were batting in form, to easy wickets due to light. I notice your lot blaming the light for all those catches they just missed. Is anyone running a sweep on whether Pietersen will actually catch anything this series? Who appear to need quite a bit more catching practise. maybe they should chip in and get the wicket keeper larger gloves? Our commentators (Dean Jones and Greg Matthews) have named him "cymbals". Yeah, it's shocking. Just as well though, or we'd be leading 3-0 and not just have won but have humiliated you I don't think we're humiliated, at all. Is that what the British tabloid media is saying? Oh dear. -- ant |
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ant wrote:
BrritSki wrote: ant wrote: BrritSki wrote: ant wrote: Lisa Horton wrote: Although not officially excited until October, I'm starting to think a lot about snow again. Weather is finally cooling off in the Bay Area. Stores starting to have pre season sales. Sure seems like ski season is just around the corner! Ours is juddering to an early, ignominious end. Goodness, I thought you were talking about your cricket team then - coming off for bad light when you need a win ? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! well, we leave the panicking to your lot. Looks like your lot are the ones panicking. Off for bad light AGAIN ? Let's hope your lot want to actually play the game to a finish, rather than backing off and using light as their excuse. So when your lot go off it's so that you don't "lose the top order, who were batting in form", when we go off it's because we don't want to play the game. Yeah, right. And anyway, do you think Waugh would have stayed on (I'm not mentioning Ponting, because he's not in the same class as captain). Yeah, it's shocking. Just as well though, or we'd be leading 3-0 and not just have won but have humiliated you I don't think we're humiliated, at all. Is that what the British tabloid media is saying? Oh dear. Read what I said, S L O W L Y . That "we'd be leading" is short for "we WOULD be leading". A conditional. What might have happened. As it happens all the British media are saying what a great series it is, how good Oz were to fight back in the last tests, and what a sporting contest it has been (see above, absence of Waugh). I couldn't agree more. There's a meat pie filling cooking slowly in the oven which will be ready for us to eat in celebration tomorrow night. |
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bdubya wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:40:06 -0700, Lisa Horton wrote: Although not officially excited until October, I'm starting to think a lot about snow again. Weather is finally cooling off in the Bay Area. Stores starting to have pre season sales. Sure seems like ski season is just around the corner! I'm a little (just a little) nervous, as I graduated to more advanced gear at the end of last season, and I hope I can handle it okay after the summer. Even if you hadn't upgraded, odds are that your first day back, you'd feel like your skiing is much worse than it was at the end of last season. So if it feels like your skiing has taken a huge step backwards, don't let it get to you; the rust of summer should flake off within a day or two, if not within just a few runs. I'll keep your encouraging words in mind as I flail down the first run of the season Seriously, I'm hoping you're right, and figuring that you probably are right. Thanks Lisa |
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bdubya wrote:
... odds are that your first day back, you'd feel like your skiing is much worse than it was at the end of last season. So if it feels like your skiing has taken a huge step backwards, don't let it get to you; the rust of summer should flake off within a day or two, if not within just a few runs. Interesting. I feel like my skiing at the start of the new season is better than it really is; I have to remind myself not to attempt serious terrain before my reactions are recalibrated properly. |
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