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skiing through the summer???
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Sorry - no great ideas from me, I tend towards hiking once the approach:ski ratio is much greater than 1, so I haven't gathered much useful data.
Edited further to add that with sharp edges, the blue ice at Killington (Sunday River, Stowe, Sugarloaf, Loon, etc.) is eminently skiable, so there must be some reasonably smooth ice somewhere that will serve the purpose this summer.
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<br><br>I've been feeling the same way lately. Just a little new snow right now simply hides the rocks that are waiting to provide a core shot - to skis or body. I just picked up my skis from Pro Ski - repaired a core shot courtesy of Silver Basin fluffy snow over hidden rocks - and got to see some amazing damage on other skis due to rocks (huge core shots, blown out edges). If we start getting sustained dumps, things will improve, but right now the days are short, gates are still closed, and there's very little snow in the woods. Ullr willing, I will get my 100th month next month, but if we're to September conditions in April or May, I may retire the streak. As Jim suggests, the mountains will still be there and there should be some good early season hiking.I've got to be honest, lately I've been kind of craving spring and summer. Snow coverage in the summer is about the same as now but at least then we have more sunshine, longer days and easier access.
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<br><br>I'd highly recommend New Zealand as well...though I was there trekking/climbing in the "off-ski season" (March), the possibilities for great backcountry skiing seemed endless...even in March, the approximate equivalent of September here in the Cascades, many of the places we hiked/climbed would have offered amazing corn skiing; if I had brought skis of course; though the approaches would have scored some high torture points (the steep and occasionally exposed approaches seemed brutal enough without skis, but the experiences were all worth it ). Skiing year-round on the South Island seems very feasible. I'd like to go back and ski the Mt. Aspiring area sometime:<br>www.cascadesfreak.com/gallery/newzealandi know it is a long far away, but if you ever get the chance try New Zealand.
Anyway, back here at home I may be trying to find some more sand dune stashes this summer ;) or chasing those remnant snow patches like Winchester while they last (though as Skip mentioned, there may be less snow on Winchester now than there was in September '03).
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<br><br>good point jim_oker! alright everyone, give it up...<br>Geez, no one can suggest anything closer than New Zealand (great info, by the way - thanks!) or the small patch on Winchester?
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<br><br>I should have known , I mean yeah I double got you Skip probably didn't fall for it. That's the great thing about the internet: it being often difficult/impossible to depicher sarcasm from sincerity in the text (without smilies) I had thought such as reply was odd coming from the "stash master" himself ;D<br>--Chris<br><br>Guess I should use more smilies.<br>I was being facetious, too, Chris. Now I feel bad to have inadvertently bullied you into an unneeded apology. Or else you double got me. I'm the one who should be giving up stashes (if I could remember where in the hell they were). Ain't this internet great? A never ending source of surprise turns and blind sides, eh?<br><br>
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<br><br>well, if you don't mind the "hike", there might be snow this summer here:<br><br>- Spickard/Redoubt area ( TR and more photos )<br>- Ruby Mnt. <br><br><br>... give it up...<br>
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