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I've heard the term granular used here in Quebec? What exactly is that?
It just seems like groomed snow to me on a standard slope.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Granular snow would normally be mid/late season snow which has melted then re-frozen but been broken up into corn-like granules by either skiers, pisting or further sun. It's probably the easiest off-piste snow and something any good skier loves to find.
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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?
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In the Eastern resorts here, it's all they have. I thought it was good, most seemed to say it was all they had in a kind of derogatory way 
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Off piste version:
Early in the morning it was probably a hard, icy crust - then starts to melt in the sun till it is a layer of corn on a still hard base. Very nice.
Later it may melt too deeply and you break through the crust (Aaaargh). Often quite a small window when it is good skiing.
Since the period when it is good will vary with the slope orientation, the correct judgement of this is the sort of knowledge you pay guides for.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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AN Other on a forum said it was like ice?
Seemed more like powder to me. I know ice because that's what we normally get on the Alps
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GordonFreeman, the NA definition of ice would be a nice firm piste to most Europeans!!
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| GordonFreeman wrote: |
| I've heard the term granular used here in Quebec? What exactly is that? |
It's a city in Canada where they eat granulated sugar and ski on granulated snow
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Tue 2-02-10 10:44; edited 1 time in total
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| GordonFreeman wrote: |
AN Other on a forum said it was like ice?
Seemed more like powder to me. I know ice because that's what we normally get on the Alps |
It is little grains of ice which had probably been frozen together overnight but are now warmed enough to be like a shallow layer of large, loose grains of sugar, usually on a firm base. Often called spring snow since it is formed by the repeated overnight freezing and day time semi-melting by the sun which is typical of sunny spring weather.
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| kitenski wrote: |
| GordonFreeman, the NA definition of ice would be a nice firm piste to most Europeans!! |
What they call ice (granular), we love to ski? Hilarious.
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I know ice because that's what we normally get on the Alps
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you go to the wrong alps, GordonFreeman. But there seems a big discrepancy here. some people are equating "granular" to sugar grainy sort of snow (which is what I always thought it was) and others to a hard packed piste - which by definition has no bits on it at all.
So, which is it? Can't possibly be both.
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| pam w wrote: |
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I know ice because that's what we normally get on the Alps
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you go to the wrong alps, GordonFreeman. But there seems a big discrepancy here. some people are equating "granular" to sugar grainy sort of snow (which is what I always thought it was) and others to a hard packed piste - which by definition has no bits on it at all.
So, which is it? Can't possibly be both. |
Yeah maybe
From whatI've seen out here it's sugary with hard pack underneath, some icy bits from wind exposed slopes but not many icy patches.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The surface starts off hard and frozen in the morning. At what point in the melting and freeing of the granules as the day goes on you start to call it granular quite frankly I can't be bothered to think about.
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