everyone is always wanting cold and snow for their ski trips.. but surely its better to have cold and snow before your ski trip then sun and no snow on your ski trip.. i can understand the powder monkeys wanting a day of blizzard.. but for the piste people why the fasinaction with it being artic and grim while you are there?
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Not for me thanks - I prefer the pre-trip crap weather and/or snowy nights with sunny days. Pity to let all those deckchairs go to waste
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
I'd rather it snowed all night and was then crystal clear all day... I hate flat light!
CANV CANVINGTON, my ideal is: Clear blue sunny skies from about 8am to lunch. 30 minute blizzard over lunch. Clear blue skies until about 4pm/sunset whichever comes first. Major snowfall from then until around midnight, then a 3 hour gap for the piste bashers to do their work, followed by 5 more hours of major dumpage.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
CANV CANVINGTON, agreed here! We had a day of snow and complete whiteout... I certainly preferred the gentle temps and blue skies... for me that is what skiing is all about... my ideal is a whopping dump the week before I arrive then gentle temps, blue skies but cold cold cold at night to remind me i'm not in the UK!
everyone is always wanting cold and snow for their ski trips.. but surely its better to have cold and snow before your ski trip then sun and no snow on your ski trip.. i can understand the powder monkeys wanting a day of blizzard.. but for the piste people why the fasinaction with it being artic and grim while you are there?
man, you're strange
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
carled, those are dream conditions and what I was lucky enough to experience on my last holiday - had to laugh when my boss was in the same resort the week before and experienced flat light, freezing temps and whiteouts every day. How he stared bitterly at my tan on my return. crossing fingers and toes I get the same this year. Karmically I deserve it I'm sure
After all it is free
After all it is free
CANV CANVINGTON, Have to agree, get the runs in good shape, then bring on the sun! Actually I'll have some of what Wear The Fox Hat, has ordered please
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Example of the sort of thing I had in mind:
Perfick!
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Wear The Fox Hat wrote:
CANV CANVINGTON, my ideal is: Clear blue sunny skies from about 8am to lunch. 30 minute blizzard over lunch. Clear blue skies until about 4pm/sunset whichever comes first. Major snowfall from then until around midnight, then a 3 hour gap for the piste bashers to do their work, followed by 5 more hours of major dumpage.
I was going to very rude about this post but then decided that th 5 hours dumpage after the piste bashing is not a bad idea. Death to the mogul.
Good work Fox.
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AxsMan, why have you stopped!!
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Wowsers ghey piste-skier overload on here. For competent boarders or gheys on skis when are dry conditions ever good??? It should dump constantly all night then all day so that by the time you've done the lap of the mountain and you're back at the top your tracks have been fillled in. Non-stop knee+ deep pow is what we live for, non??? As long as vis is ok i.e. you're at a lowish altitude and in trees.
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
hd, why go low - high altitude and trees is where it's at, unless you're a boarder/ghey.
Low altitude is for losers.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
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Example of the sort of thing I had in mind:
Perfick!
AxsMan, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nice
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Just the conversation I was having with 'the flying bogee' on the way home from school this afternoon. We're putting in our order now for cold and bright with nightly top ups for the MSB next week.
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CANV CANVINGTON wrote:
AxsMan, why have you stopped!!
To take the photo
That was where we were going.
This is where we were coming from:
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
hd wrote:
It should dump constantly all night then all day so that by the time you've done the lap of the mountain and you're back at the top your tracks have been fillled in. Non-stop knee+ deep pow is what we live for, non??? As long as vis is ok i.e. you're at a lowish altitude and in trees.
Some sense at last. Sun ruins fresh snow by making it heavy in exposed areas. I love having my tracks filled in every run!
A nice compromise is dumpage from about 4pm until 9am next day. 20cm on runs groomed the previous evening is always a good way to warm up before hitting the really fun stuff.
Curiously, the only place this scenario has happened to me reasonably regularly is in Snowbird, Park City and Vail. And Schweitzer this year. There's an even a video for those of you really bored at work
big dumps and bad? (oxymoronic) snow/weather keeps the fair weather punters off the mountain, give me flat light and snowy conditions every time. Cold = snow, warm = rain - simple choice
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
I actually love to ski when it's snowing: there are less people around, powder on the piste and I don't normally look where I'm going anyway.
gortonator, you are a liar. Snowbird and Park City never have good snow. People should avoid Utah at all costs. Everything is far more expensive than France, the snow is terrible, it's a complete waste of time for anyone from the UK to go to. (particularly when I'm there)...
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
i should say dump followed by sun is ideal
storm skiing is also fun but you generally can't go as fast or do quite such interesting terrain as you can when you can see where you are going
now when don't i like skiing.... when it's actually raining hard and maybe when you have flat light and high wind but no snow falling?
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After all it is free
I enjoy skiing in the snow if there are some trees but it can get a bit bleak above the tree line in a storm. I am also a shoite powder skier but I always wish for the stuff, must be a masochist wanting to fall over yet again.
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gortonator, you are a liar. Snowbird and Park City never have good snow. People should avoid Utah at all costs. Everything is far more expensive than France, the snow is terrible, it's a complete waste of time for anyone from the UK to go to. (particularly when I'm there)...
Wear The Fox Hat, you are of course right. And mormons are evil, gun-wielding folks who will shoot you if you try to acquire alcohol.
The skiing is of course cr@p too, as can be seen from this video .... again only for those who know they never want ski anywhere but France and are terribly bored at work.
I vote for the constant snow, a 3-4 hour clear sky window every morning would be great to get avalanche control done, then bring on the snow !!
I do not like high winds and flat light (often associated with snowing I know)
As to OP, sunny days ruin the snow, and let the punters do more exploring than they should, thus moguls build up in areas that they shouldn't.
I do like the sunny days in spring time, because by then I am over the big mountain stuff and like to have fun ripping around groomers with friends doing pub runs.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
carled wrote:
I'd rather it snowed all night and was then crystal clear all day... I hate flat light!
Me too.
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gortonator wrote:
Wear The Fox Hat wrote:
gortonator, you are a liar. Snowbird and Park City never have good snow. People should avoid Utah at all costs. Everything is far more expensive than France, the snow is terrible, it's a complete waste of time for anyone from the UK to go to. (particularly when I'm there)...
Wear The Fox Hat, you are of course right. And mormons are evil, gun-wielding folks who will shoot you if you try to acquire alcohol.
The skiing is of course cr@p too, as can be seen from this video .... again only for those who know they never want ski anywhere but France and are terribly bored at work.
Indeed the Utah State Government have in fact recently passed a statute that actually forbids anyone from entering the State between October and April, on pain of jail and US jails are of course hideous places that no skier would want to find themselves in. Therefore my advice is that if you've accidently booked a plane ticket to Salt Lake City you either ask for a refund from the airline, or failing that, that you only go to Park City as foreigners are at least tolerated there...
Never, and I repeat never, go to the Cottonwoods as the police run checkpoints at the bottom of the canyons...
This is all true, I swear on my grandmothers life...
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