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BC Rain and Conditions
What has all the rain done to the BC ski areas? We are supposed to heading
to Red Resort in two weeks and appears as if the rain really hammered their base. Anybody up that way lately? |
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ttalb wrote:
What has all the rain done to the BC ski areas? We are supposed to heading to Red Resort in two weeks and appears as if the rain really hammered their base. Anybody up that way lately? Haven't been up there yet this year. Not much reason to go with so little snow -- certainly not enough to ski where I want to ski at Red Mtn. This about says it all: ISSUED: Monday January 24, 2005 15:00 PST SYNOPSIS: High-pressure ridge centred across Idaho through to the north coast seem to be anchored in this location. The flow around it will continue to provide mild air out of the south. Meanwhile a band of moisture off the Pacific is stretched across the south interior and is part of a rapidly weakening front edging southward across the area. Not much activity associated. FREEZING LEVEL: Near 2500 metres falling to near 2000 metres tonight, it will likely lift a few hundred metres on Tuesday. RED MOUNTAIN FORECAST: TONIGHT: Cloudy with possible clear breaks, if so temperatures should be cooler. TUESDAY: Mainly cloudy with a chance for a few showers, wet flurries on top. It isn't worth the drive from here even. The only place that sound like it might be at all good is Sunshine butthat is a little too far to go on spec. Dave "I rode my bike in shorts today" M. |
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Dave M wrote in
: ttalb wrote: What has all the rain done to the BC ski areas? We are supposed to heading to Red Resort in two weeks and appears as if the rain really hammered their base. Anybody up that way lately? Haven't been up there yet this year. Not much reason to go with so little snow -- certainly not enough to ski where I want to ski at Red Mtn. This about says it all: ISSUED: Monday January 24, 2005 15:00 PST SYNOPSIS: High-pressure ridge centred across Idaho through to the north coast seem to be anchored in this location. The flow around it will continue to provide mild air out of the south. Meanwhile a band of moisture off the Pacific is stretched across the south interior and is part of a rapidly weakening front edging southward across the area. Not much activity associated. FREEZING LEVEL: Near 2500 metres falling to near 2000 metres tonight, it will likely lift a few hundred metres on Tuesday. RED MOUNTAIN FORECAST: TONIGHT: Cloudy with possible clear breaks, if so temperatures should be cooler. TUESDAY: Mainly cloudy with a chance for a few showers, wet flurries on top. It isn't worth the drive from here even. The only place that sound like it might be at all good is Sunshine butthat is a little too far to go on spec. Dave "I rode my bike in shorts today" M. Check out the alternative Red site "The Unred": http://www.unred.com/news.php He gives a pretty candid assessment of real conditions at Red, often with pics. For the past couple of years tho, he's been spending a lot of his time at Baldface Lodge, which sounds amazing - but it's a small (well, world's largest, in fact) snowcat operation in the same area. Cool site. dh |
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"David Harris" wrote in message ... Dave M wrote in : Check out the alternative Red site "The Unred": http://www.unred.com/news.php He gives a pretty candid assessment of real conditions at Red, often with pics. For the past couple of years tho, he's been spending a lot of his time at Baldface Lodge, which sounds amazing - but it's a small (well, world's largest, in fact) snowcat operation in the same area. Cool site. dh Great site. I appreciate it. Unluckily we are locked into being there in two weeks, so I hope conditions change for the better. Then heading to Snowwater for some Cat skiing. T |
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tg wrote: "David Harris" wrote in message ... Dave M wrote in : Check out the alternative Red site "The Unred": http://www.unred.com/news.php He gives a pretty candid assessment of real conditions at Red, often with pics. For the past couple of years tho, he's been spending a lot of his time at Baldface Lodge, which sounds amazing - but it's a small (well, world's largest, in fact) snowcat operation in the same area. Cool site. dh Great site. I appreciate it. Unluckily we are locked into being there in two weeks, so I hope conditions change for the better. Then heading to Snowwater for some Cat skiing. T Right now everything around here sucks. Red, WH2O, Salmo, etc., etc., etc.... Rain, fog and very warm temperatures everywhere. Sunday morning it was +3c when I left my house in Nelson and it was +3c when I got to the parking lot at WH2O. 4,000 feet elevation difference and no temperature gradient. Snow is rotten glop and visibility is poor. Having said that, I wouldn't be too concerned if you're not coming for another two weeks. All this can, and most likely will, change overnight. It's been unseasonbly warm and wet for one and a half weeks now. Based on past experience, that means that the odds of it lasting another two weeks are slim to none. My guess is that by the time you get here the warm spell and crappy snow will be nothing but a bad memory and the cool temps and powder will have returned. Armin |
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