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Great advice Harvey44. Now please re-direct your comments toward your local lower case bard who seems unable to focus on snow and terrain and and constantly wanders off into childish, or even snide characterizations of people and places he holds in contempt. Let's get back to discussions of...

Glad to hear that closure of the canyon road (at least for downhill traffic) is rarely done. As to the "pet" peeve of "gratuitous" quotation marks, I guess it is a stylistic affectation. I'll try not to feed your "pet" too often Marc. :D

My "lovely wife Susan" and I enjoyed meeting Sharon and Pam at the RI. While I looked forward to skiing with the "crew" today, the new storm would make visibility on the trip up the canyon and thus skiing very difficult. Not to mention, I don't want to chance being "snowed in" up top if they...

Actually, this is a Birthday Party report. Nine of us braved the chilly "waiting line" at Red Iguana this evening and feted Admin "in absentia." We enjoyed the excellent cuisine and hoisted our glasses in his honor. Although he missed the fine food and drinks, I'm sure he will enjoy the...

You did not quote me correctly. Don't stop at the comma. I said: "I'm not so sure about the snow in the Alps, but the beer definitely has UT beat." The first clause was "tongue in cheek." The second clause about the beer was my point. I was born and lived in Austria, (near Innsbruck in...

Now I understand why President Bush pushed so hard for his "No Child Left Behind" program. He must have read your prose.

Gladly, but the purile poster won't stop, and that is not to be tolerated.

I'm not so sure about the snow in the Alps, but the beer definitely has UT beat!

You know, I once heard that the average American male wears the same size jockey shorts that they wore at age 16 regardless of any future growth or onset of corpulance. I doubted that when I first heard it, but your incessent negative prattle has pursaded me of the veracity of that bit of folk...

Res ipso loquitor!

Got up to Alta around 11 AM today. Super Blue Sky, and lots of nice little powder stashes around. Yes, there was some pretty "firm" stuff on some aspects, but the woods beyond Catherine's were sweet. Met a new guy who really knew the mountain and he definitely earned a couple of beers showing...

If you decide to cross the border into Canada, you better find out if you will need your US Passport to get back into the USA?

Is that why it rains when Sharon comes west? She brings that "eastern Karma" with her? #-o We gotta get Homeland Security to put her on the "No Fly List" :wink:

Refer to: http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards ... 9887#29887

Refer to: http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards ... 5345a0796b Nuff said.

I never had a problem physically getting to the ski areas in the east with my own cars. Even an unplowed six inch "dusting" has been no trouble for me when staying on the Killington Access Road and taking either the "back" way up to Bear Mt. base, or the road up from Rt 100 next to the SKYSHIP...

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk, why so sensitive? My original post in this thread was a COMPLIMENT. To wit: "Great pix.." I don't recall spreading "gloom and doom." It is simply a fact that eastern powder has higher moisture content and rapidly turns to "packed powder" or, perish the thought, crust and...

Having a job with a very rigid calendar, and living 165miles (Hunter) or 300 miles (Killington) each way from those "powder dumps" resulted in exactly what I said above. Those "Pow" days were were very rare indeed. If I had lived in the plume of "lake effect snow" (I looked up Camillus,) and...

Great pix! Enjoy it while it lasts. I remember how rare (and great) it was when I lived in the east and managed to catch a day with real powder. After an occasional day like that I was more motivated then ever to go live in a place that had dumps like that on a regular basis. Of course, I...

Thanks Marc, that's good to know. BTW, I bought a new Subaru this afternoon. I'm picking it up on Wed. No more bus or bugging people for a lift up the canyon road when it is restricted to 4WD or chains!