Who's skiing tomorrow?

[MikeK]

I skied 2-3" plowed and packed down over asphalt last season... it was surprisingly good... SMOOOOOTH!

[Woodserson]

Ok, about 6" at Henniker today, settled a bit. Pats Peak claims 8" but I find this terribly optimistic. Still, down at low elevation nothing really underneath it. I did not have time to get over to Kearsarge to do reconnaissance. Remember, you can climb Pats for free, go get a hot dog. Gets busy afer 3pm, FYI.

[bmike-vt]

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Your image, upper left, days 'product selection' - I just found it funny that selecting snow or freezing rain like on amazon...

Oh dude, good catch! Yeah! I'm going back and I'll take care of that right now, whaddya want? 36" in 24hrs?

I won't be greedy. 24" in 24 hours would be fine. Have it ready to go by either Sunday 5am for skinning, or Friday 12pm for an afternoon out of work. Or really anytime in the next week... pretty sad here in VT today. Rain, I see grass in the backyard.

[STG]

Not skiing tomorrow, but I did get down to YNP(Big Horn area ) on MLK day. I took my Asnes Kongsvold Jakt (96,66,85) for a test drive. They don't have metal edges and they are waxable. I used narrow, shortened skins (60mm width). There was about 6 inches of new powder, bluebird day and temp was cold-- 1 degree starting out and mid-teens later. I skied for about 5 hours and did a few laps on a low angle knob. Telemark turns worked great! The skis floated better than my Eons and the soft tip made initiation of the turn easy. The Kongsvold skis like the Madshus Epoch in the powder, but with less drag because they are waxable and don't have metal edges. The dimensions are similar to the Epoch. Pleased with my purchase and the exceptional day of skiing I had!

[MikeK]

Cool man - glad to hear you are diggin' those Asnes skis.

[Woodserson]

Effortless floating on a crystalline cushion of air today with long linked turns and speed. One inch of sleet on top of corduroy is worth something, and that's smooooth skiing with a perfect feel, like corn the kind you find on Rainier in May. I let the dogs run, no cables, just pins and the leathers. Everything about this is just so good. Where was everyone?

[anemic]

My gosh Woody that sounds fabulous. Thanks for the stoke. Currently wishing for a return to winter in SW MI. The forecast gives possible hope.

[lilcliffy]

We got the edge of a HORRID ice storm this week. 30+cm of a mix of wet snow, ice pellets and ice by Wednesday morning. Pretty decent waxless skiing though. At least we still have a lot of snow base (about 3ft).

Froze pretty solid last night

About 5cm from flurries today. Quite warm: highs of -1C. Today's ski felt like I was skiing on coarse-grade erodable styrofoam with soft, wet snow on top- it was weird...But VERY FAST.

E-99 Crown baby.

[fisheater]

Graupel

Graupel, also called soft hail or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm balls of rime. The term graupel comes from the German language.

Wikipedia


Skied 12" of graupel once, loved it so much I learned what it was called. My favorite hero snow, point 'em down the hill and let them arc as you feel it, fast! I had the pleasure of dry graupel, sounds like you had wet graupel. It still sounds like fun. I would be happy with a thick layer of hoar frost, maybe I could get some yard k&g going

[HBS]

Plan was originally to head up to Eldora Saturday for a half day of NNN-BC tele practice followed by some regular alpining. However, car came back from the shop and needs a new driver side back wheel bearing. I'm 90% sure I can do it myself and save $150 so that'll be Saturday morning. Hoping to still have time to get up to the hill but we'll see.

Sunday will be a short 6 mile tour with some new friends from the Colorado Mountain Club to an alpine lake where I'll try out my nordic skates. Weather has been plenty cold and the wind finally blew the snow off the alpine lakes.