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Finally skiing
Here in St. Paul, we've gotten used to driving a few blocks or a few
miles and skiing at Como golf course. During normal winters, the rock skiing starts in early Dec, the course is groomed from about Christmas until the big melt down that often occurs around Birkie week. Usually there's big groups of skiers out there in the afternnon from a few high schools, and then in the evening the big Finn Sisu groups arrive. With no snow this year, the skiers have been scattered to the wind, running, cycling, swamp skiing, etc. I haven't skied much at Elm Creek this year because I hate rush hour traffic, and I purchased a pass to Trollhaugen (which I haven't been to much either), but I think Elm Creek has become the new local meeting place for skiers. Last night we got a 1/2" of snow and it was my first ski at Como. It was dead with hardly anyone there until the Finn Sisu groups arrived about 7 pm. Wow, a normal ski evening in the winter. Felt kind of odd. There's no trail packed down, but the free range skiing was pretty good considering the fact that St. Paul Streets Dept hasn't had to plow snow yet this year. How long does it take to get in shape? Can I do it in a week? Jay Wenner |
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Speaking of the Twin Cities, It was supposed to
snow a couple of inches this afternoon/evening according to all the weather reports. Right now, it sure doesn't feel like snow. The weather radar shows a wimpy front way to the east of us. In some of our past "global warming winters" (I'm adopting the term now, just to get a jump on everyone else), we at least had rollerskiing conditions. This winter has been bad for both. According to the NOA long term forcast issued a couple of months ago, this was supposed to be a near normal winter. I think they were right. It has been normal, we just have a new definition of normal. The problem is that weather forcasters are dependent on historical trends, the same way a heroine addict is dependent on heroine. They don't want to admit the obvious, unlike climate scientists who to the person are taking change as a given. -Bob |
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We have maybe 7 km of decent classic, and after today's 1 inch of snow,
maybe skating on Guyot Hill. Involves a ten minute hike up. The views are fantastic and the trails are interesting. Did it tonight with head lanterns so the only view was that of falling snow. The underlying situation that resulted in good skiing was grooming by rolling immediately prior to the rain deluge event last week. Then the very low temps, and tiny bits of cold powder over the last four days.The base yields just enough to form tracks. Off trail everything is rock solid with a two inch crust that isn't trustworthy to ski on. Falling through it really tears your ankles up. Gary Jacobson Rosendale, NY |
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