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Jan 7, 2010, Mt. Rainier, Mazama to Stevens canyon

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Posted by Andrew Carey on 1/7/10 7:52am
Bulletproof; rain runneled in places; wind scoured in places; scrape, scrape but a beautiful day.
See those old tuas woulda worked just fine.
Bring us some powder and then I'll grant you your new skis work best!

Was it really 46 degrees up there at 2PM as the Paradise telemetry reports?
1-7-2010
    Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center
    Paradise, Mt Rainier National Park, Washington

     MM/DD  Hour  Temp    RH  Wind  Wind  Wind  Hour Total 24 Hr Total
             PST     F     %   Avg   Max   Dir Prec. Prec.  Snow  Snow
                 5550' 5550' 5500' 5500' 5500' 5550' 5550' 5550' 5550'
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
       1 7  1700    41    71     4    10   313     0     0     1    82
       1 7  1600    38    84     7    11    69     0     0     0    81
       1 7  1500    31    84     7    13    76     0     0     1    81
       1 7  1400    46    63     3     9    76     0     0     0    80
       1 7  1300    45    74     6    10    67     0     0     0    80
       1 7  1200    41    75     4     9    76     0     0     0    81
       1 7  1100    43    74     7    11    63     0     0     1    81
       1 7  1000    39    81     7    12    70     0     0     0    81
       1 7   900    29    96     8    15    74     0     0     0    81

not according to the thermometer in my truck; it seems the weather statiion has been reading much higher than my truck thermometer lately, which generally agrees with my weather station at home.  But compare NWAC with SNOTEL (its 300 ft lower).

Temp peaked at SNOTEL at 2 p.m. at 37 then dropped quickly

author=Robie link=topic=15092.msg63143#msg63143 date=1262912470]
See those old tuas woulda worked just fine.
Bring us some powder and then I'll grant you your new skis work best!


I actually wished I had them (or my snowwolfs) but I wanted to try my Manaslus in hard stuff and they worked fine.  Narrower, stiffer skis, would have been nicer; the rockered tip on the Manaslus makes for some unexpectedly sharp turns.

author=acarey link=topic=15092.msg63169#msg63169 date=1262965014] I wanted to try my Manaslus in hard stuff and they worked fine.

They are impressive on the hard stuff, that's what sold me on them at Marmot Demo Night last January riding bulletproof courderoy.  Great ski, and sooo light!

Hmm, are you telling me it may be time to consider retiring my first-gen FR100's Silas?

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