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Ace wrote:
" The Rockies: Obtuse. Plenty of tree skiing. Plenty of powder skiing. You can ski more powder in a single day in the Rockies than you can in a season in the Alps. Rubbish. I must have skiied at least 50, possibly as much as 100km vertical of powder this season. In Europe. And that's with working as well, not skiing full-time. This season yes. But I can remember seasons which were almost 100% blank draws for powder. Even with chasing after it. If I ski powder it usually merits an entry in the diary. In the Rockies powder is just there. It is not cause for comment. I am not talking BS powder, like "Oh here at Vaspen, we have champagne powder ! You can just blow it off the top of your car !" or "Come to the powder paradise of ..." but the actual snow you can ski on. |
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On Tue, 26 May 2009 22:19:50 +0430, "
wrote: Ace wrote: " The Rockies: Obtuse. Plenty of tree skiing. Plenty of powder skiing. You can ski more powder in a single day in the Rockies than you can in a season in the Alps. Rubbish. I must have skiied at least 50, possibly as much as 100km vertical of powder this season. In Europe. And that's with working as well, not skiing full-time. This season yes. But I can remember seasons which were almost 100% blank draws for powder. Even with chasing after it. If I ski powder it usually merits an entry in the diary. In the Rockies powder is just there. It is not cause for comment. It's true that this has been an exceptional season, but I've skiied lots of powder each season for the last few years. They key, of course, is living close enough to good off-piste resorts to take advantage ofit when it's there, but the fact remains that if youare, then you can find powder in plenty in any normal season. I am not talking BS powder, like "Oh here at Vaspen, we have champagne powder ! You can just blow it off the top of your car !" or "Come to the powder paradise of ..." but the actual snow you can ski on. Sure, and it's true to say that sometimes the 'quality' of the alpine powder isn't so high as you may find in the rockies, in that it tends to be much less fluffy, higher water content, etc. But it's stil lpowder. |
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Hello,
Davos: Another broad cold valley. Another valley you need an automobile for to move between lift Talstations. Note to any one building a resort: You need to make sure that you can ski between all the valley stations, and all of the hotels. This means that the hotels need to be scattered around the lower flanks of the valley so you can ski to them, then ski away from them down to a lift station. Davos - as all european resorts - is a grown village with a historically long architectural experience. This experience told the people, where to build safely and where to avoid buildings (at the avalanche desaster of Galtür many people died, because their houses were built to close to the flanks; the center of the village was not affected - it is located, where the the people know that they are safe) Florian |
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Florian Anwander wrote: Davos: Another broad cold valley. Another valley you need an automobile for to move between lift Talstations. Note to any one building a resort: You need to make sure that you can ski between all the valley stations, and all of the hotels. This means that the hotels need to be scattered around the lower flanks of the valley so you can ski to them, then ski away from them down to a lift station. Davos - as all european resorts - is a grown village with a historically long architectural experience. This experience told the people, where to build safely and where to avoid buildings (at the avalanche desaster of Galtür many people died, because their houses were built to close to the flanks; the center of the village was not affected - it is located, where the the people know that they are safe) Davos has the Swiss Federal research center for the study of snow and ice and avalanches in particular. A friend did a sabbatical there. A good skier, ironically, he broke his leg early that ski season, then had to take the funicular with his broken leg up to his office which had an incredible valley view. I saw what I regarded as one of the funniest Snickers ads ever and was tempted to ask them for the poster (huge), but only people with even a bare knowledge of the history of Swiss/Alpine climbing could get the joke. Snickers bar with the words underneath: Eiger nordwand? Snickers mit peanuts. Photo on my call phone camera. -- Looking for an H-912 (container). |
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