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- From: mueller@delta.cs.fsu.edu (Frank Mueller)
- Subject: Re: New Mexico snow/ski report
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.201634.25136@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Sender: mueller@delta (Frank Mueller)
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- References: <1jk7t6INNo73@lynx.unm.edu> <1993Jan21.173344.26340@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan21.192954.26660@sj.nec.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:16:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.192954.26660@sj.nec.com>, paul@hagar.tdd.sj.nec.com (Paul Gordon x3856) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan21.173344.26340@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> puckett@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Jim Puckett) writes:
- > >dlawren@salsa.abq.bdm.com (David P. Lawrence) writes:
- > >> Base('') New(24hrs) New
- > >>Taos 90 4 8 storm
- > >>Purgatory 85 6 26 week
- > >
- > >Something's funny here - I was in Purgatory last week, and they had a ski
- > >team up from Taos because (they told me) there was so little snow in Taos!
- > >
- >
- > Thats because New Mexican inches seem to be smaller than the CO variety!
- >
- Have you seen the spot where they measure in Taos? It's left of the top of
- the Phoenix lift (the left-most lift on the mountain), on the way to Huntziger
- Bowl. It's also right below Katchina Peak and in some trees. If it snows, it
- will snow there. And twice at much. And it doesn't become packed powder at all.
-
- So, 90in there means about 60in on top slopes and at most 30in (incl. snow-
- making) on bottom slopes. Well, and then there are all these rocks which need
- about twice the snowcover than anything else...
-
- Frank
- mueller@cs.fsu.edu
-