i can't believe i am even responding to this, but i have the time right now so:
YOU GUYS ARE NUTS ](*,) :lol:
..ice, unlike some on the board i've grown to appreciate the unbridled enthusiasm you have.. some day when i don't have to work anymore i hope i can do the lifestyle thing like you do...the problem with SOME OF your reports sometimes is that yes, even though conditions and hapiness with them are relative to some degree, the objective person can be forgiven for questioning the credibIlity of some of your reports....
dudes, I was on the hill on Monday.. ice , you were on a beach…. There were hardly any lifts spinning , it was windy and the surface was refrozen granular from a meltdown on Sunday….anything ungroomed was unskiable…
Tony- this was the case everywhere in NEW ENGLAND…. It had nothing to do with loon.. stowe sucked, K sucked, Jay sucked….if you notice, no one put up a report on tuesday except the hampton beach report from ice :roll: … I was the only one on this board, apparently who skied on Monday and bothered to post…
ice, the NOAA forecast from Sunday night showed a very good possibility that wed would be a good day….but it was not a lock… if you don’t think the crew and I were agonizing over the computer on Sunday trying to figure out what to do, you are just wrong…the decison was made easier on monday....i came home, made some money, and saved the vaca day for when the real skiing starts in april
I was off on Monday and Tuesday and was debating whether to use vacation time on wed…the forecast on the NOAA site said , CLOUDY ON WEDNESDAY WITH TEMPS IN THE MID 40’S WITH POSSIBLE RAIN…. I’ve been doing this long enough to know that 1) sometimes you never know until you go and 2) mid 40’s with no direct sunlight often times will not soften it up enough….tony , IF and only IF we , we had decided to roll the dice, loon actually would have been the right call because of it’s lower elevation would have provided better odds for softening….
So it’s Monday at 1030… 2 runs in, it’s about 10 F on the hill… the 24 hour says Tuesday might get into the upper 20’s and low 30’s with some freezing rain and then the probable but not locked wed limited sun warmth….and too boot, there were gusts up to 25 forecasted ](*,)
It’s very easy to Monday morning quarterback this ice, but you would have a lot more cred if you came on the site before Tuesday night at 947pm and said in response to my Monday report... “ dude roll the dice, wed is a lock”….my employer needs a bit more notice than that..
nothing is a lock in feb in New England…it’s a guess and a calculated gamble….i saw no reason at all to ski in the mountains Tuesday, as apparently you did not either ice ( good call ) …. I determined wasting 2 days and hanging around for a possible good day on wed in which I would have to burn time off was not worth it….and tony, is was the same gamble whether I was in stowe or jay or the dreaded loon…NEW ENGLAND SUCKED ON MON AND TUESDAY….that DOES NOT, make me angry man…. But I don’t have a problem telling it like it is up there… I thought that was the point of the site … when it’s epic , I say it.. there are plenty of reports where is say it was epic….i accept that skiing in NE , 50 to 60% of the time it is going to be less than good…
Tony, I’ll pm you my home address…. When the certified check doesn’t come in the mail for the balance of the note on the property, I’ll know it’s from you.. :wink:
It’s easy to play Monday morning quarterback boys !!!!!
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tony, you keep forgetting that a good 40% of my ski days are out west for 20 days straight.... in whistler, in the summertime.... the only time to ski
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