Reporter seeks Bay Area skiers

.... Hi all. I'm writing a story for Monday's paper about the big snow
dump in the Sierra, upcoming weather, etc. and am looking for Bay Area
skiers to interview. If you're interested please shoot me an email or
a call.

Thanks,

Glennda Chui

408-920-5453

Glennda wrote:
... Hi all. I'm writing a story for Monday's paper about the big snow
dump in the Sierra, upcoming weather, etc. and am looking for Bay Area
skiers to interview. If you're interested please shoot me an email or
a call.

Thanks,

Glennda Chui

408-920-5453


You must be kidding. If they are worth interviewing,
they are all out skiing. I'm responding from the
snow-deprived east coast.

VtSkier

Ha! Yeah, that is a basic problem with doing this story at this
particular time.
You don't have snow back there? I thought you had a bunch.

glennda

Glennda wrote:
Ha! Yeah, that is a basic problem with doing this story at this
particular time.
You don't have snow back there? I thought you had a bunch.

glennda

Depends on where you are. At Killington, we had pretty much
zilch until Thursday. Skiing on machine made snow, don't
you know. We got 6 inches on Thursday and another 6
yesterday and last night. You wouldn't believe how happy
everyone was today. Course we did add a picture perfect
day to 12 inches of new snow. Also another rarity in
the east.

The storms lately have been tracking south of us. Connecticut
has been dumped on. The storms have also been of the liquid
snow variety, which then freezes into really hard crust.
Some people call this ice. We say it ain't ice unless you
can see a fish through it. But then this year, some of that
stuff HAS been transparent.

VtSkier

Sigh. I'm jealous. I haven't skiied since my pre-kid days, which would
be about 15 years ago. Just talked to someone who said they were
skiing today in powder over their heads. ay!
Hope you get some good snow soon.

Glennda

Glennda wrote:

Ha! Yeah, that is a basic problem with doing this story at this
particular time.

At least you understand THAT little detail. I hope your editor is as
quick on the uptake.

In the meantime, you could probably scribble up an awfully funny
enterprise story about what skiiers eat when it's snowing like hell.
Most of us here are unabashed eaters with ravenous appetites and amazing
recipes.

It'd work nicely in your Food section ... if you leave out the more
bizarre ramen recipes...

Jimintexus

testing a ski recipe as I type this

Good idea! What are you cooking?
I'll never forget sitting across from a couple of French guys in the
dining room at Squaw. One of them pulled out a big old onion, sliced
it up and proceeded to eat it raw!

Glennda

On 9 Jan 2005 19:25:58 -0800, "Glennda" wrote:

Good idea! What are you cooking?
I'll never forget sitting across from a couple of French guys in the
dining room at Squaw. One of them pulled out a big old onion, sliced
it up and proceeded to eat it raw!

Glennda

I'm eating one right now. Sliced and dippped in just enough salt to
taste, washed down with milk.

Its a pretty common snack really. Low calorie, low fat. Good for
repelling girls.

nate

Glennda wrote:

Good idea! What are you cooking?
I'll never forget sitting across from a couple of French guys in the
dining room at Squaw. One of them pulled out a big old onion, sliced
it up and proceeded to eat it raw!

If you core that onion and stuff it as if it were a spherical mushroom,
and bake it until it's soft, it usually turns very sweet and delicious
-- but is still a potent date repellent, unless everybody eats one.

I'm told that if you've a head cold, raw onion is just like an apple.

Tonight's recipes partially failed. The garlic-stuffed pork chops had
too much garlic (but now I know what's "too much") and the traditional
shell pasta stuffed with mock alfredo, in red sauce, were OK, given that
there was no spinach or ricotta, just brussels sprouts and sour cream ...

But the old stand-by, garlic french bread to get a second date with,
worked as well as ever. Butter (marg), garlic powder, and parmesan on
sliced french bread. Bake. Easier than crashing under the main lift.

The true skiier will manage to get four or five cups of Papa Johns
garlic sauce per loaf of french bread, and snag about 20 little packages
of parmesan cheese. And then con the dudes at the Subway out of a few
sandwich rolls.

It's all about eating what's available.

Think "Donner party."

Jimintexus

Glennda wrote:
... Hi all. I'm writing a story for Monday's paper about the big snow
dump in the Sierra, upcoming weather, etc. and am looking for Bay Area
skiers to interview. If you're interested please shoot me an email or
a call.

Powder days after days ...
Thing to do is through away your taperecorder and your job and get up to
the slopes. I'd talk to you on the lifts - I bet several people would
take the time, as long as you didn't try to cut into their runs ...


Thanks,

Glennda Chui

408-920-5453