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Ahhh Spring skiing
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:12 -0400, VtSkier
wrote: DaveM wrote: Beautiful day skiing on Saturday. 6 or so inches of fresh and fluffy in the morning. Warmed up in the bright subshine for some nice long soft Spring skiing runs in the afternoon. Just under a month left for the lifts to keep running. Better make the most of it. DaveM After a glorious week last week and a weekend of sleet, rain, snow, freezing rain, rime ice, high wind, lifts being down from wind, icing or lack of interest, I'm looking forward to a good day of calm wind, sunshine and 50 degrees with wonderfully soft hero snow tomorrow. . We are back to a brief blast of winter here. Had eight or ten inches of fresh snow yesterday and it was blown in deep in the trees. Might have been my last day out for the year since I am traveling next week. Might get one more, have to see. It was funny to go back to cold temp, wind, blowing snow ... winter .. after three weeks of mostly spring like. Gives me dreams of December to tide me over through a long hot mountain biking season. Dave M |
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Ahhh Spring skiing
DaveM wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:12 -0400, VtSkier wrote: DaveM wrote: Beautiful day skiing on Saturday. 6 or so inches of fresh and fluffy in the morning. Warmed up in the bright subshine for some nice long soft Spring skiing runs in the afternoon. Just under a month left for the lifts to keep running. Better make the most of it. DaveM After a glorious week last week and a weekend of sleet, rain, snow, freezing rain, rime ice, high wind, lifts being down from wind, icing or lack of interest, I'm looking forward to a good day of calm wind, sunshine and 50 degrees with wonderfully soft hero snow tomorrow. . We are back to a brief blast of winter here. Had eight or ten inches of fresh snow yesterday and it was blown in deep in the trees. Might have been my last day out for the year since I am traveling next week. Might get one more, have to see. It was funny to go back to cold temp, wind, blowing snow ... winter .. after three weeks of mostly spring like. Gives me dreams of December to tide me over through a long hot mountain biking season. Dave M 75 degrees at the top of Killington yesterday (Saturday). Many bikini sightings. The views were wonderful. How I like spring skiing. .. |
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Ahhh Spring skiing
VtSkier wrote:
75 degrees at the top of Killington yesterday (Saturday). Many bikini sightings. The views were wonderful. How I like spring skiing. Here in the Seattle area we just don't get that kind of spring skiing. The areas close long before the temps get up that high. |
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Ahhh Spring skiing
Bob F wrote:
VtSkier wrote: 75 degrees at the top of Killington yesterday (Saturday). Many bikini sightings. The views were wonderful. How I like spring skiing. Here in the Seattle area we just don't get that kind of spring skiing. The areas close long before the temps get up that high. It's quite by accident that the temperature got this high. In fact it's a record, IIRC by perhaps 13 degrees! That's a lot. We like what we call "sugar weather" for spring skiing. Freeze overnight, sun bakes the snow for a couple of hours in the morning and softens up to a nice consistency. The freeze/thaw cycle creates 'corn snow' which is really nice. For the last week and a half we have not gotten the freeze part of the cycle and the hill is pretty slushy. If you can push it around it can be fun. .. |
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Ahhh Spring skiing
On 4/4/10 10:48 AM, Bob F wrote:
VtSkier wrote: 75 degrees at the top of Killington yesterday (Saturday). Many bikini sightings. The views were wonderful. How I like spring skiing. Here in the Seattle area we just don't get that kind of spring skiing. The areas close long before the temps get up that high. I'm kind of surprised? Around Tahoe both Alpine and Squaw (and Mammoth down the road) continue into May when the temps are high and the corn is fabulous. You guys get copious dense snow like we do - why do ALL your mountains close early? Anyway, major dumpage around Tahoe all week, continuing. Winter returned. Dam shame having to ski pow. grin grin grin I'm bailing for a month in South East Asia in a couple of weeks, so trying to cram in a few more slope days before. Although it looks like I have to make an appearance at the Viet consulate in San Francisco in the AM. |
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Ahhh Spring skiing
lal_truckee wrote:
On 4/4/10 10:48 AM, Bob F wrote: VtSkier wrote: 75 degrees at the top of Killington yesterday (Saturday). Many bikini sightings. The views were wonderful. How I like spring skiing. Here in the Seattle area we just don't get that kind of spring skiing. The areas close long before the temps get up that high. I'm kind of surprised? Around Tahoe both Alpine and Squaw (and Mammoth down the road) continue into May when the temps are high and the corn is fabulous. You guys get copious dense snow like we do - why do ALL your mountains close early? It seems to me that they close due to lack of people rather than lack of snow. Probably most of the people still going up at the end of the season are season pass holders, so the monetary motivation to continue later may be limited. Plus, I've heard there may be forest service restrictions on their lease. |
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Ahhh Spring skiing
On 04/04/2010 08:00 AM, DaveM wrote:
We are back to a brief blast of winter here. Had eight or ten inches of fresh snow yesterday and it was blown in deep in the trees. Might have been my last day out for the year since I am traveling next week. Might get one more, have to see. It was funny to go back to cold temp, wind, blowing snow ... winter .. after three weeks of mostly spring like. Gives me dreams of December to tide me over through a long hot mountain biking season. I think we owe Al Gore a lot for having invented this global warming stuff -- we've had a GREAT year with 3-5 feet still hanging around. This is the first season I've ever skied in either December OR April, and I did both. The Volants are so lovely and stable I don't even mind slush any more! GPS is slick, especially for $4 (yardsale) -- I hit 46.6 mph max, which is most gratifying. I did that on a bicycle once -- also downhill, of course. -- Cheers, Bev Far away in a strange land |
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