Crosscountry skiing

RW came by the old neighborhood yesterday and we had a nice ski - did a
few warmups on various groomed and then looked around a bit to see what
sights the snowpack was permitting. Even managed to find some genuine
transparent ice crust so he'd feel right at home. No powder, not even
California cement - top to bottom rain saturated the pack earlier - we
bitch at it now but when we have a good snow base right into July, we'll
be a trifle poor appreciative.

I enjoyed the visit. Finished off with a raid on the locker Urquel.

lal_truckee wrote:

RW came by the old neighborhood yesterday and we had a nice ski - did a
few warmups on various groomed and then looked around a bit to see what
sights the snowpack was permitting. Even managed to find some genuine
transparent ice crust so he'd feel right at home. No powder, not even
California cement - top to bottom rain saturated the pack earlier - we
bitch at it now but when we have a good snow base right into July, we'll
be a trifle poor appreciative.

I enjoyed the visit. Finished off with a raid on the locker Urquel.

mmmm, Pilsner Urquel

Sounds like conditions are, shall we say, sub optimum unti the next
snow?

Lisa
(trying to get out from being snowed under with work)

Lisa Horton wrote:
lal_truckee wrote:

RW came by the old neighborhood yesterday and we had a nice ski - did a
few warmups on various groomed and then looked around a bit to see what
sights the snowpack was permitting. Even managed to find some genuine
transparent ice crust so he'd feel right at home. No powder, not even
California cement - top to bottom rain saturated the pack earlier - we
bitch at it now but when we have a good snow base right into July, we'll
be a trifle poor appreciative.

I enjoyed the visit. Finished off with a raid on the locker Urquel.


mmmm, Pilsner Urquel

Sounds like conditions are, shall we say, sub optimum unti the next
snow?

Actually, there was plenty of decent skiing, and it'll improve as it
goes through more freeze/thaws. Hark thee to the mountains...



Lisa
(trying to get out from being snowed under with work)

Lisa Horton wrote:


Sounds like conditions are, shall we say, sub optimum unti the next
snow?

Following up my followup to the followup

....it's the "Toute Neige" part of skier's mantra: Toute Neige, Toute
Vitesse, Toute Terraine

As a skier you want to ski all snow at all speeds on all terrain. You
can't learn all snow conditions if you avoid some snow conditions. As
the kids say - "It's all good."

---
Sidecuts? We ain't got no sidecuts. We don't need no sidecuts. I don't
have to show you any stinking sidecut.

lal_truckee wrote:

Lisa Horton wrote:



Sounds like conditions are, shall we say, sub optimum unti the next
snow?


Following up my followup to the followup

...it's the "Toute Neige" part of skier's mantra: Toute Neige, Toute
Vitesse, Toute Terraine

As a skier you want to ski all snow at all speeds on all terrain. You
can't learn all snow conditions if you avoid some snow conditions. As
the kids say - "It's all good."

Tell me about it! It's been a good year so far for me to work on my
frozen-chunky-sometimes-sloppy-crud-skiing skills -- something that I've
always been sadly deficient on. Thanks to a good clue I picked up last
year, it's been much easier this year, and I'm actually welcoming the
"toute neige" practice.

--
Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

Mary Malmros wrote:
lal_truckee wrote:

As a skier you want to ski all snow at all speeds on all terrain. You
can't learn all snow conditions if you avoid some snow conditions. As
the kids say - "It's all good."


Tell me about it! It's been a good year so far for me to work on my
frozen-chunky-sometimes-sloppy-crud-skiing skills -- something that I've
always been sadly deficient on. Thanks to a good clue I picked up last
year, it's been much easier this year, and I'm actually welcoming the
"toute neige" practice.


So what was the "good clue". Some of us have to ski on
"frozen-chunky-sometimes-sloppy-crud" more than others.