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- From: webb@oasys.dt.navy.mil (John S. Webb)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: Ski Report Euphemisms
- Message-ID: <30107@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 05:32:33 GMT
- References: <1jos4aINNqh0@meaddata.meaddata.com> <9301231318.AA10343@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
- Reply-To: webb@oasys.dt.navy.mil (John S. Webb)
- Distribution: na
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
- Lines: 53
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- In rec.skiing, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
- >You have to realize that ski reports are phrased in technical jargon.
- >Once you're familiar with the jargon, the reports are easy to understand.
- >
- >Jargon Explanation
- >====== ===========
- >Excellent conditions Fair conditions
- >Good conditions Poor conditions
- >Fair conditions Grass, rocks, and/or mud
- >
- >Packed powder Ice
- >Packed granular Ice
- >Loose granular Ice cubes
- >Machine-made-snow Shaved ice
- >
-
- and a few more!!
-
- Frozen granular Ice
- Groomed/machine worked A Snowcat went by, Ice before & ice afterward
- Wet packed powder It poured rain last night- your lucky (unlucky
- ?) were open. often still raining.
- 9 trails are open 3 runs open with 6 little interconnections
- the "R" word Rain - a word never used in reports at most areas.
- Spring conditions Ice in AM heavy wet mush in PM
- fog you can see about 3 ft.
- Packed powder(east) about 1 inch of snow over ice-scrapes off quickly
- 1 inch new after 3 inches of rain it snowed 1 inch.
- good snowmaking day the rain & wet snow froze into ice last night and
- we need to make snow for 3 days to cover the ice
- thin cover/bare spots huge patches of dirt almost close most runs
- sunny and warm the recent powder dump will set up into cement
- cold -20 degrees,flurries, 100mi/hr winds
- all lifts scheduled to it's so windy many or all lifts may be closed
- operate
- we made 10 in of snow all snow guns were in a circle aimed at the
- measuring stake in the middle
- firm packed powder Ice
- hard packed Ice
- roads snowpacked(calif) chains required
- windblown snow the new snow all blew away into the woods
- be aware of changing.. more ice
- powder (west) 4 or more inches of fresh snow,may be too heavy
- to ski
-
- Can someone other than management do ski reports?
-
- John Webb
- David Taylor Model Basin Hq. - Ski Till You Drop -
- Carderock Div,NSWC _ The Md state ski bum-
- Code 1523
- Bethesda,MD 20084-5000
- 301 227-1870 webb@oasys.dt.navy.mil (John S Webb)
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