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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
Icy and cold. More later. I need a shower. And a beer.
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 7, 5:21*pm, Richard Henry wrote:
Icy and cold. *More later. *I need a shower. *And a beer. Maybe you should have gone back to Coronado High School and hoped I would show up. Maybe lie to some people, get your jollies stalking and defaming. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 7, 5:21*pm, Richard Henry wrote:
Icy and cold. *More later. *I need a shower. *And a beer. Shower done, and I now have an icy cold Noche Buena in front of me, so here goes; Left at 5AM, arrived about 7:20. Stopped for gas before heading up the hill, but I should have waited - gas was cheaper in Big Bear that in Loma Linda. Sunny, cold and windless today. Locals said there had been 2 days of rain that soaked the snow without melting much of it, then they groomed the wet snow last night - and then it froze all the way to the ground. The result was icy washboard, rivaling New England's finest. I found the best conditions were where a lot of snowboards had already gone down, grinding the top surface into loose granular (note to snowboard haters - they do have a useful function). However, the boarders stayed away from the more interesting open runs, Exhibition and Showtime, so they stayed icy all day. After a couple of hours, I took the shuttle over to Snow Summit for a few runs. Same conditions there - icy surface being ground in places into loose granular. I shuttled back, made a few more runs, and then left about 2 PM when my feet started cramping from fighting the ice. No Coronado run tonight, just straight home - 132 miles. Poway plays in the Coronado Tournament Final tomorrow at 6:30 PM, and my wife has given me permission to skip her group's non=holiday party. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On 12/07/2010 09:16 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Dec 7, 5:21 pm, Richard wrote: Icy and cold. More later. I need a shower. And a beer. Shower done, and I now have an icy cold Noche Buena in front of me, so here goes; Left at 5AM, arrived about 7:20. Stopped for gas before heading up the hill, but I should have waited - gas was cheaper in Big Bear that in Loma Linda. Sunny, cold and windless today. Locals said there had been 2 days of rain that soaked the snow without melting much of it, then they groomed the wet snow last night - and then it froze all the way to the ground. The result was icy washboard, rivaling New England's finest. I found the best conditions were where a lot of snowboards had already gone down, grinding the top surface into loose granular (note to snowboard haters - they do have a useful function). However, the boarders stayed away from the more interesting open runs, Exhibition and Showtime, so they stayed icy all day. After a couple of hours, I took the shuttle over to Snow Summit for a few runs. Same conditions there - icy surface being ground in places into loose granular. I shuttled back, made a few more runs, and then left about 2 PM when my feet started cramping from fighting the ice. No Coronado run tonight, just straight home - 132 miles. Poway plays in the Coronado Tournament Final tomorrow at 6:30 PM, and my wife has given me permission to skip her group's non=holiday party. Better than that at Killington last Friday after the rain. Guns started up as soon as cold enough and were used to resurface frozen surface. I found a few mounds of muck one of which caught me and enforced an over-the-handlebars type of roll. But up higher it was OK. I'm probably going to resample conditions tomorrow. I'll let you know. Mountains north of here got as much as 18" of blower which will be all blown off by tomorrow. Maybe the woods will begin to get good. Killington got about 6" of the light stuff. A buddy said it was good today. We'll see how tomorrow is. They should be blowing lots of snow and opening up more terrain with Skye Peak open by the weekend. Maybe tomorrow if I'm lucky. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:21:32 -0800 (PST), Richard Henry
wrote this crap: Icy and cold. More later. I need a shower. And a beer. I hope it's not in that order. Vote for Palin-Brown in 2012. Repeal the nightmares. Merry Christmas everyone. God bless us all. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 7, 6:16*pm, Richard Henry wrote:
On Dec 7, 5:21*pm, Richard Henry wrote: Icy and cold. *More later. *I need a shower. *And a beer. Shower done, and I now have an icy cold Noche Buena in front of me, so here goes; Left at 5AM, arrived about 7:20. *Stopped for gas before heading up the hill, but I should have waited - gas was cheaper in Big Bear that in Loma Linda. Sunny, cold and windless today. *Locals said there had been 2 days of rain that soaked the snow without melting much of it, then they groomed the wet snow last night - and then it froze all the way to the ground. *The result was icy washboard, rivaling New England's finest. I found the best conditions were where a lot of snowboards had already gone down, grinding the top surface into loose granular (note to snowboard haters - they do have a useful function). *However, the boarders stayed away from the more interesting open runs, Exhibition and Showtime, so they stayed icy all day. After a couple of hours, I took the shuttle over to Snow Summit for a few runs. *Same conditions there - icy surface being ground in places into loose granular. I shuttled back, made a few more runs, and then left about 2 PM when my feet started cramping from fighting the ice. No Coronado run tonight, just straight home - 132 miles. *Poway plays in the Coronado Tournament Final tomorrow at 6:30 PM, and my wife has given me permission to skip her group's non=holiday party. Don't you just love stalking? Passive agressive and deniable, as usual. Your style. Utterly nutless. You really fight like a bitch, Henry. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 7, 8:05*pm, The Real Bev wrote:
I try to buy Costco gas whenever possible. We have Conoco stations that sell real gas, no ethonol. A few cents more per gallon. Higher mileage and better for the engine makes up for it. I also use it in my lawn mower, string trimmer, chain saw, that kind of stuff. Much better for them and for mixing with 2 stoke oil. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 8, 8:34*am, pigo wrote:
On Dec 7, 8:05*pm, The Real Bev wrote: I try to buy Costco gas whenever possible. We have Conoco stations that sell real gas, no ethonol. A few cents more per gallon. Higher mileage and better for the engine makes up for it. I also use it in my lawn mower, string trimmer, chain saw, that kind of stuff. Much better for them and for mixing with 2 stoke oil. How does the Conoco fuel meet the osygenate requirement without ethanol? MTBE? |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 8, 10:30*am, Richard Henry wrote:
How does the Conoco fuel meet the osygenate requirement without ethanol? *MTBE? I don't know. I know that they advertise it as "no ethenol" 100% gasoline, and that's why I buy it. I do know that ethenol is bad for the seals and stuff. It's also hard on an engine especially in high temps. It gets hot in Southern Utah. I get better mileage too. About 20%. But at 10 mpg I'll take it!!!!!! |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:30:10 -0800 (PST), Richard Henry
wrote this crap: We have Conoco stations that sell real gas, no ethonol. A few cents more per gallon. Higher mileage and better for the engine makes up for it. I also use it in my lawn mower, string trimmer, chain saw, that kind of stuff. Much better for them and for mixing with 2 stoke oil. How does the Conoco fuel meet the osygenate requirement without ethanol? MTBE? You slip the right people an envelope and you can get away with anything. Vote for Palin-Brown in 2012. Repeal the nightmares. Merry Christmas everyone. God bless us all. |
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