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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: New Mexico snow/ski report
- Message-ID: <11801@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 21:16:31 GMT
- References: <1jk7t6INNo73@lynx.unm.edu> <1993Jan21.173344.26340@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
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- Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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- 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:
- >
- >>New Mexico ski/snow report for 1/20/93:
- >
- >> 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!
-
- I have seen Taos reporting a base of 100" and then observed bare spots
- with what looked like about an average of 6" packed snow on the expert
- runs on the lower part of the mountain. On the same day, the base on
- one of the runs on the Ridge seemed bottomless (a pole stuck in handle
- first did not hit anything). It is entirely possible that Taos had
- excellent skiing in the trees and on some sides of the mountain but
- the conditions might not be suitable for ski team training on the
- slope where they set training courses.
-
- Taos is big and has a lot of vertical. It is much cooler on top and
- the sun exposures vary a great deal from run to run. Its latitude is
- like Tennessee and N. Carolina, so elevation is everything. Taos also
- measures its snow depth in a place in the trees that is not typical of
- an open run with some sun exposure and is higher than many of the runs.
- Thus the snow settles and packs much less on this site than it does
- where other places measure their depth.
-
- I have always found this disconcerting, since the midwestern places where
- I grew up skiing would measure adjacent to a slope where the snow depth
- was comparable to the actual packed depth on the run.
-
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