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skicdave
08-06-2003, 08:25 AM
I'll be proceeding to Mont Tremblant today... supposedly to hike up (rain most likely)... maybe look for an illusive patch of artificial snow. I'll report back tommorrow if I found anything interesting.
Mumster
08-06-2003, 08:36 AM
skicdave:
I'll be proceeding to Mont Tremblant maybe look for an illusive patch of snow. A snow hunt, eh? Sounds like something I'd do. Take lots of :camera: , if you find snow. I'll be hobbling around Greece when you return. But I look forward to seeing your pix when I return next week...(no pix from me :( , unless I find :snowflakes: , which is highly unlikely).
E'khe. Kharan' le'gô soi (Good luck. I wish you joy).
Khai'rete (bye)
Good luck brave sir knight - on your quest...
Man we are a sick bunch... You know - we're all living on the wrong coast...
elwood
08-06-2003, 09:28 AM
DMC,
That's exactly what I was thinking. If we were out west right now, it would be no problem to find a patch of snow to shred!
What they said!
Here's a teaser from mtncommunity.org, their Backcountry skiing board is ....well, you be the judge.
going Kooky (http://mtncommunity.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=142&forum=DCForumID7)
Frankontour
08-06-2003, 09:43 AM
Lolololololololol
I think you mistake a little bit about Mt Tremblant.
There is no snow there since 2 months. The last snowpatch was almost gone on the northside snowpark while I was still skiing at La Réserve on june 1.
Tremblant just receive 150" of snow by year (on summit) and the south side (south west) lose it very fastly. The north side (north east) is better to hold the snow, but the last snowpatches on the snowpark generally melt during late may or beginning of june. It was probably not skiable on june 1, although I must say I was at 20 miles, at the summit of Mt Garceau, and it was possible to see there was still a little bit of snow. (cause of the white reflects). Even doing snow like on Superstar, there wouldn't be snow on Tremblant, today. I wouldn't be sure, for the Loup-Garou canyon which have about the same climate than Tucks... and without the sun Tucks normally have. (la Réserve is even possibly a little bit colder in summer. When it's 85 in Montreal, it's about 70 in the canyon.)
Actually, with may be 40% of the snowmaking depth Superstar have, it holds snow until mid-june. So you can calculate at 100% hehehe.
Back for Tremblant, I went 3 weeks ago and I looked to be sure, but there was clearly no remaining snow... and for a while.
Mumster
08-06-2003, 09:45 AM
DMC:
You know - we're all living on the wrong coast... 1000 T4T members...if we each pitched in $100 we could buy a run down shack somewhere in the Rockies....
Mumster:
1000 T4T members...if we each pitched in $100 we could buy a run down shack somewhere in the Rockies.... I'm thinkin the Lake Tahoe area... mmmmm.... North Lake Tahoe....
pepperdawg
08-06-2003, 11:22 AM
Mmmmmm.... North Tahoe....maybe on that road to Alpine Meadows/Squallywood (the main road with the brook following it)....
July Fourth Couloir here we come...count me in! And the next goal: A hacienda south of the Equator! something with a lot of rooms and a really big kitchen...and an idustrial strength walk-in fridge for our ales and beers!
Bannick
08-06-2003, 02:35 PM
If the government gives the approval we should buy something near here.
www.jumboglacierresort.com (http://www.jumboglacierresort.com)
They promise year round skiing like they have in europe. Wish I had the cash to buy some property in Pemberton (north of whistler) when I lived there. Gonna be worth a bunch and I am sure it is only a matter of time untill another resort is given approval in the Whistler Valley. Tho I am not sure it can be supported environmentally.
TheOctopus
08-06-2003, 02:53 PM
I'd get the cottage on the East Side of the Sierra -- walk out your back door in Bishop or Lee Vining and never ski the same line twice for the rest of your life. And in the spring, Tioga Pass is where it's at!
Not to mention fantastic bouldering around Bishop!
snowhoss
08-06-2003, 04:25 PM
Who can I make the check payable to?
kmrnskier
08-07-2003, 09:26 AM
Dave - any luck on finding any white gold yesterday :snowflakes: (with probable specks of brown in it)????
springfever
08-07-2003, 10:39 AM
Speaking of late snow, in 2000 I did a hiking trip to Newfoundland's Tableland Mountains on Labour Day Weekend (First Monday in September). With my very own eyes I saw multiple patches of snow, enough for a couple of turns. Not sure if this was an anomaly or not, but anyhow I've put Newfoundland's Tablelands on my spring skiing trip list for 2004.
springfever
08-07-2003, 10:39 AM
Speaking of late snow, in 2000 I did a hiking trip to Newfoundland's Tableland Mountains on Labour Day Weekend (First Monday in September). With my very own eyes I saw multiple patches of snow, enough for a couple of turns. Not sure if this was an anomaly or not, but anyhow I've put Newfoundland's Tablelands on my spring skiing trip list for 2004.
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