On Friday, March 1, 2013 7:40:56 PM UTC-5, bayharbor wrote:
--Not every skier is that hardcore. For folks just want to get relaxed and enjoy fresh snow, icy is absolutely damper.
On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Lubing (Larry) Lian 廉路兵 <lub...@gmail.com> wrote:"icy" snow is good, for two reasons:(1) It DOES improve one's techniques. It is kind of like you play tennis (or golf, or whatever) with one arm tied to your back, or with two sand bags tied to your legs. After you untie your arm (or the sand bags), you feel like you can fly....(2) Nietzsche （尼采，哲学家/philosopher) said: if it does not kill you, it will make you stronger...On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:07 PM, snowrider <snowride...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hah! That's why! You are too indulged by Utah's fresh powder to accept the fact that we are in the East where some resorts cannot even open on Christmas in some bad years. That is the fact that skiing in the East needs to deal with rainy, icy, warm, and cold conditions. We appreciate every possible ski days here because the season is so short, 3 months especially in our Mid-Atlantic, where the first month early condition and last month Spring condition. When we call our good condition here, westerners will say that "so icy"! When we call our great condition here, westerners will say that "not much snow"! What should we do? We have no choice (except taking ski trips to the West), but we still go skiing every weekend to enjoy "icy" condition the same way as people enjoy grass skiing in some no-snow countries.Normally, the season in our area ends the 3rd weekend of March. That's why I strongly recommend people to go now (it's rare that the end of Feb. resorts still fully open and have lot of *snow* - machine made).
On Friday, March 1, 2013 6:41:47 PM UTC-5, Larry Lian wrote:Snowrider - no, I am not in the area long enough, only since 2010.But I do understand that snow can be made at temperature as high as 39 degrees (if humidity is less than 10%).However, there is a difference between "good quality snow" and "poor quality snow".....distinguished by purple and blue color in the above chart.But you are right in the sense that even "poor quality snow" is better than no snow. Since moving east from Utah I have learned, painfully at times, to appreciate that poor quality snow is better than no snow.Along this line, I have experienced Vermont in its not-so-great days, during which I had to, on a given trail, stop, take off the skis, carry them on my shoulder, walk over patches of grass, and then put the skis on to continue my journey (I believe the word journey is suitable here ....)BUT, not-so-great is all relative.(1) On one hand, those no-so-great days are so much greater than the days that we have no snow. We are much like the fish appreciating a puddle of water when there is no pond, lake or ocean around.In this regard, people have learned to appreciate not only any bit of snow we can get, but also anything non-water, including sand, grass, and plastic. I have seen on TV that people do ski them, the sand, the grass, the plastic trail....(2) One the other hand, any day with less than six inch of fresh natural snow are horrible. In Utah the locals (including my Utah friend who is the subject of the two powder-skiing pictures sent earlier) refuse to ski without the slopes receiving more than six inch of fresh natural snow. At certain other places, people would die for a couple of inch of it...Anyway, I digress....Have a great remainder of the season!- Larry--On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:50 PM, snowrider <snowride...@gmail.com> wrote:
Larry - If you are in this area long enough, you would know that ski resorts here take any possible opportunity to make snow even if it is as high as 31 F.Good news! I got the latest news just now from Whitetail that there will be snowmaking tonight! AND ... the weather report says that Saturday and Sunday will be snow days! We will get a great condition this weekend! Come and join me to go skiing together. Spring is coming very soon, and you won't get anything better in the end of this season! Also if anyone is thinking about improving your skill or fix some skiing problem, let me know and I can definitely help.Please let me know if anyone is interested in going together tomorrow and/or Sunday.
On Friday, March 1, 2013 12:43:39 AM UTC-5, Larry Lian wrote:With night time humidity forecasted to be 55%, we actually need temperature to drop to 24 in order to make good quality snow (http://www.snowathome.com/sno
wmaking_weather_tools.php ).
But, no worries, weather channel forecast says low of 23 on Sunday and 24 on Monday.
Lubing (Larry) Lian
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This coming weekend will be an excellent opportunity to go skiing. Weather report says that both Saturday and Sunday will be sunny and a little bit cloudy with temperature 38 to 25 F - perfect temperature! You got to take advantage of this excellent weather condition and go now because Spring is coming soon! I will go to Whitetail on both days! If you need my help on improving your skiing, please let me know and I can make you a good skier. Let me know if you are interested in going together.
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