Jackson (and Utah) mid-trip report

"yunlong" wrote in message
oups.com...
Bob Lee wrote:
yunlong wrote:

Though daytime temperature reaches 70+, the snow remains
cool, and the moguls and slush powders are very
skiable/turnable after the snow is softened around midday.

"Slush powders"? Pray tell, what is that?

The spring powder/snow before it turns into the corn snow?

But it takes days or a weeks for powder to turn to good (real) corn
and it has to sit untouched for that to happen. And even fake
(groomed) corn has to freeze and thaw to get good. And if they don't
groom that **** it's like skiing small appliances.

Are you talking about the sport where you attach a couple of sticks
to your feet with specialized boots? Or is there some new thing out
there plagiarizing the lingo?

pigo

VtSkier wrote:
Bob Lee wrote:
CLIP
"Slush powders"? Pray tell, what is that?
Bob

In Vermont, if you can move it it's powder, if you
can't it's packed powder.

BTW it's WINTER here in Vermont. Skied the last two
days in heavy snow conditions. Freshies on every
run, total of probably 18" in last 48 hours. Sunny
bright, under 30 degrees here today.

Good for you. You must be having a fine last few weeks - the newspeople
are all agog at the idea of snow; whole cities are apparently shutting
down due to a foot or so. But for a skier it must be heaven.

Here is not heaven. But it ain't hell either. More elsewhere.

uglymoney wrote:
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:13:53 -0600, lal_truckee
wrote:


yunlong wrote:

Not sure why you even go that far

For the hell of it. Why not?


So are you posting from the internet cafe next to the Motel 6, or did
you bring a laptop?

Oh, we are highly equiped. We brought two Powerbooks.

But we forgot the ethernet cable - the Jackson place had highspeed if we
had a cable - someone stole all their loaners. All we brought was a tel
cable. So we're dialup in hotel rooms, not having the energy to go
internet cafe-ing for wi-fi.

Dam motels ought to ALL have hi speed wi-fi; Utah better bus bureau
ought to require it, or us high tech dudes will cross Utah off our tour
card - not. I bet in a year they all will.

"lal_truckee" wrote in message
m...


Dam motels ought to ALL have hi speed wi-fi; Utah better bus bureau
ought to require it, or us high tech dudes will cross Utah off our
tour card - not. I bet in a year they all will.

If you stay here in SL there are a few pubs with wifi. I'm not sure
about South if you stay near the mouth of the canyon. Across from
Fiddlers Elbow (my fav. local joint) there's a wife coffee shop.

Give me a shout while your here, we'll go have a beer. There is at
least one other poster here that just missed our gathering.

pigo

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:56:35 -0700, "pigo"
wrote:


"lal_truckee" wrote in message
om...


Dam motels ought to ALL have hi speed wi-fi; Utah better bus bureau
ought to require it, or us high tech dudes will cross Utah off our
tour card - not. I bet in a year they all will.

If you stay here in SL there are a few pubs with wifi. I'm not sure
about South if you stay near the mouth of the canyon. Across from
Fiddlers Elbow (my fav. local joint) there's a wife coffee shop.

Give me a shout while your here, we'll go have a beer. There is at
least one other poster here that just missed our gathering.


Enjoyed the beers at Fiddlers. Good stuff, nice joint, good stories
and fish tales. Sorry I had to run out of there like I did without
getting properly torn up, practically a crime. The 3:30 am wakeup the
next manana was brutal, but the drive back through Colorado
is/was/always will be far, far more scenic than the boring
rollercoaster ride across Wyoming so it was well worth it, plus there
was that extra day of skiing at the Basin.

nate

"uglymoney" wrote in message

Enjoyed the beers at Fiddlers. Good stuff, nice joint, good
stories
and fish tales. Sorry I had to run out of there like I did without
getting properly torn up, practically a crime. The 3:30 am wakeup
the
next manana was brutal, but the drive back through Colorado
is/was/always will be far, far more scenic than the boring
rollercoaster ride across Wyoming so it was well worth it, plus
there
was that extra day of skiing at the Basin.

OH yeah. I don't blame ya.

There sure were a lot of Coors Lights on that bill when I left. 8 I
think.

Did you go down to 70 or out to Rifle for the trip east?

pigo

lal_truckee wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

Bob Lee wrote:
CLIP

"Slush powders"? Pray tell, what is that? Bob

In Vermont, if you can move it it's powder, if you
can't it's packed powder.

BTW it's WINTER here in Vermont. Skied the last two
days in heavy snow conditions. Freshies on every
run, total of probably 18" in last 48 hours. Sunny
bright, under 30 degrees here today.


Good for you. You must be having a fine last few weeks - the newspeople
are all agog at the idea of snow; whole cities are apparently shutting
down due to a foot or so. But for a skier it must be heaven.

Here is not heaven. But it ain't hell either. More elsewhere.


Hotel California?

A foot? If New Jack City gets 2 inches everything
comes to a screeching halt, except the skiers in
SUV's driving north, knowing full well that we can
take care of a little snow in Vermont and have fun
with it as well.

You should see what an inch of snow does to Atlanta
or Roanoke.

Had 2 feet of snow in Boston a few years ago and
a couple of friends of mine went out with skis and
a video cam and made a documentary of extreme
skiing off Bunker Hill (Chelsea). Great shots of
hucks off cars, Powder 8's down the middle of a
street lined with cars and buildings. Use of cars
stranded and abandoned in the middle of the street
for a bump run. Hilarious.

"Sven Golly" wrote in message
...
lal_truckee wrote in news:_h4Zd.9917$C47.8900

So we're dialup in hotel rooms, not having the energy to go
internet cafe-ing for wi-fi.

$4 at Radio Schlock for 10' of Cat5. That's less than one cocktail.

Heck, I see em in dollar stores and the gadgets dept in grocery stores.

Bob Lee wrote:
yunlong wrote:

Bob Lee wrote:
yunlong wrote:

Though daytime temperature reaches 70+, the snow remains
cool, and the moguls and slush powders are very
skiable/turnable after the snow is softened around midday.

"Slush powders"? Pray tell, what is that?

The spring powder/snow before it turns into the corn snow?

I see we're a loose constructionist with the concept of "powder."

Yup, that's how Kirkwood locals call it, because it is left-over
"powder," and it is skied just like "wet powder"/"sierra cements."

What do you mean by "powder" again?


IS


Bob

Bob Lee wrote:
yunlong wrote:

Bob Lee wrote:
yunlong wrote:

Though daytime temperature reaches 70+, the snow remains
cool, and the moguls and slush powders are very
skiable/turnable after the snow is softened around midday.

"Slush powders"? Pray tell, what is that?

The spring powder/snow before it turns into the corn snow?

I see we're a loose constructionist with the concept of "powder."

Bob

It's all just semantics, Bob. You're really limiting your enjoyment of
"powder" skiing by trapping your mind in such narrow constructs.

For example, the "narrowly constructed powder" was fairly... umm...
scarce this past weekend. So, after a day of skiing I headed down to
the pool for some powder. Sure, it was some of the "powder/snow" BEFORE
it had evaporated, frozen and fallen back to earth... but that's just a
minor detail. Once I was able to free my mind from these narrow
constructs I had a truly great run.

Next week I'm going to try flatboarding... but only in the deep end.
;-)

Armin