Ski touring in Wales

Anyone into ski touring might like to consider popping over to the Welsh
mountains this weekend. Conditions here in mid Wales are excellent at
the moment.

Adrian
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On 4 Mar 2006 00:38:04 -0000, (Adrian D. Shaw) wrote:

Anyone into ski touring might like to consider popping over to the Welsh
mountains this weekend. Conditions here in mid Wales are excellent at
the moment.


I got a few runs in the field next to the house Wednesday and Thursday
just outside Merthyr Tydfil :-)

I don't have touring equipment, so it was take the skis off and walk
back up, and each run was only about 150 yards, but hey! how often do
you get the chance to ski 50 yards from your front door in most of the
UK?
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On 4 Mar 2006 00:38:04 -0000, (Adrian D. Shaw) wrote:

Anyone into ski touring might like to consider popping over to the Welsh
mountains this weekend. Conditions here in mid Wales are excellent at
the moment.

Hmph. We've had a bit of a frost on this side of Blighty. I even had
to scrape the car windscreen.

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-Pip

In message , Pip Luscher
writes
On 4 Mar 2006 00:38:04 -0000, (Adrian D. Shaw) wrote:

Anyone into ski touring might like to consider popping over to the Welsh
mountains this weekend. Conditions here in mid Wales are excellent at
the moment.

Hmph. We've had a bit of a frost on this side of Blighty. I even had
to scrape the car windscreen.


We had a snowstorm that lasted all of five minutes, it snowed quite
heavily (but horizontally) and some of it stayed on the ground all night
!

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Sue ];(

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:01:05 +0000, MadCow wrote:

We had a snowstorm that lasted all of five minutes, it snowed quite
heavily (but horizontally) and some of it stayed on the ground all night
!

One day, just *one* day, it'll snow heavily enough round here that I
can say that I've actually skied in England[1]. Or maybe snowboarded.

[1] Dry slopes and snow domes don't count, OK?

--
-Pip

Adrian D. Shaw wrote:
Anyone into ski touring might like to consider popping over to the Welsh
mountains this weekend. Conditions here in mid Wales are excellent at
the moment.

Have you done any?

Felly sgrifennodd davidof :
Adrian D. Shaw wrote:
Anyone into ski touring might like to consider popping over to the Welsh
mountains this weekend. Conditions here in mid Wales are excellent at
the moment.

Have you done any?

Unfortunately, I have the wrong bindings and no skins. But I did carry my
skis up a little way and did a few runs. It's a lot of effort though!

Adrian

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Adrian Shaw ais@
Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber.
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais uk

In message , Pip Luscher
writes

One day, just *one* day, it'll snow heavily enough round here that I
can say that I've actually skied in England[1]. Or maybe snowboarded.

[1] Dry slopes and snow domes don't count, OK?


Where are you?
There must've been more snow in Henley than here (Reading) because there
were traces of it still in cold places today.

I know someone who's done cross-country skiing in the Chilterns, he
bought the kit for £40 from a bloke whose employer posted him to Norway
and then changed its mind.
My question is, should I buy snowblades on e-bay just in case, or would
that prevent it snowing here ever?

--
Sue ];(

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:44:54 +0000, MadCow wrote:

Where are you?

Suffolk.

There must've been more snow in Henley than here (Reading) because there
were traces of it still in cold places today.

Well, I had to nip into work yesterday (near Cambridge) and it was
blue skies throughout the afternoon. Apparently it snowed heavily for
a few minutes in Newmarket, but when I got back there it was sunny and
damp.


I know someone who's done cross-country skiing in the Chilterns, he
bought the kit for £40 from a bloke whose employer posted him to Norway
and then changed its mind.
My question is, should I buy snowblades on e-bay just in case, or would
that prevent it snowing here ever?

Of course it would!

--
-Pip

Adrian D. Shaw wrote:
Felly sgrifennodd davidof :

Adrian D. Shaw wrote:

Anyone into ski touring might like to consider popping over to the Welsh
mountains this weekend. Conditions here in mid Wales are excellent at
the moment.

Have you done any?


Unfortunately, I have the wrong bindings and no skins. But I did carry my
skis up a little way and did a few runs. It's a lot of effort though!

Going through my old slides (scanning them, great fun) recently I found
one of me skiing in Coventry about 25 years ago. In the fields just off
the London Rd. by the cemetery. Only a 50 yd slope, so I only did it a
couple of times just to say that I'd done it.