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Old January 15th 07, 08:17 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
GoHabsGo
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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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Old January 15th 07, 09:37 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
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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

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Old January 15th 07, 10:35 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
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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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Old January 16th 07, 12:49 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
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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

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Old January 18th 07, 03:16 AM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
Mike T
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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.



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Old January 24th 07, 01:27 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
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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.

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