how to buy Netflix shares in Hong Kong Just as the length of a wall tells us nothing about the size of a room, the one dimensional metrics that ski resorts have been throwing at us in their snow reports for years tell us nothing about how much terrain is actually open. When you want to get a feel for the size of a room, you’d probably ask for the area. When it comes to open terrain, you should be looking for skiable acres.
It seems as though the 2008/2009 winter is destined to go down in infamy as one of the deadliest years on record - and it’s only mid-January. Each week has brought another story of lost skiers, nasty falls, bizarre equipment failures, and massive avalanches.
Just this past weekend, another snowmobiler in British Columbia lost his life to an avalanche, bringing the total in Canada to 16 avalanche related deaths this season. The American total stands at 14 following two separate events on Saturday, putting us halfway to the US average of 28 deaths per season… and “avalanche season”, per se, is still a couple of months off.
trading forex online In the first three parts of our four part series, “Understanding & Choosing a Ski”, we’ve covered the major classes of skis (carving, all mountain, freeride, and backcountry), all of the most important characteristics of each particular model (waist width, sidecut, stiffness, and length), and even touched on why people make the decisions they do when buying a ski. In this final part, we’ll focus less on the actual components of the ski, and more on the buying process. When to try? Where to buy? What’s really in a brand name?
In part two of our four part series, “Understanding & Choosing A Ski”, we discussed the four major varieties of skis - All mountain, freeride, carving and backcountry. While these definitions can be helpful in narrowing things down, there’s still a lot left to think about. Within each of these categories, there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of models (no two of which are the same.) Making the most of your equipment means making an educated decision on which carver, backcountry, freeride, or all-mountain ski best fits where and how you ski.
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online forex broker Have you ever seen someone getting off a plane or bus picking up a bag full of skis and pondered… why do they need three pairs when most of us get by with just one? It’s a question that leads us into part two of our four part series: Understanding & Choosing A Ski. This part of our series will focus in on four major varieties of skis, and where each of them excels.
In the five years I’ve spent on the demo circuit, one thing that never fails to surprise me is how little some of the most experienced skiers I come across know about their equipment. Skiing is a gear intensive sport, and you’d expect that most people (especially those who strive to get better) would have a thorough grasp on what they like in a ski. The reality is that most people don’t. Read this first part of our four part series and learn how a technical knowledge of what you’re skiing on will improve your ability exponentially.
With 10,000 applications that have racked up 300 million downloads to date, it’s no wonder that there’s an abundance of skiing and riding applications in Apple’s iTunes app store. Unfortunately, weeding out the bad from the good can be difficult - many of the reviews in the app store seem to be less than honest (a lot read like they were written by the developers and their family members), and some of the apps just aren’t as good as others. Well, we’ve decided to do the legwork and pick out the standouts of the bunch. We’ll continue to update this post as the apps are revamped and new offerings become available.
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It’s been quite a week. The lead up to the typically busy holiday period was marked by three back to back storms which dumped between 8 and 24 inches of snow across the northeast, leaving things looking great, while many western resorts languished in a continued drought of snow.
Just 7 days later, the tides have turned completely both in the east and west - unseasonable warmth and several inches of rain literally cut trail counts in half at many eastern resorts, while huge dumps have buried many western resorts. With many New England resorts now in desperate need of some white stuff and cold temperatures to bolster their trail counts, we wait and hope that the next three snow producing events lined up for the rest of the week are biggies.
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In an effort to bring you an even better “user experience”, we’re making some pretty big structural changes. The content will be the same, and no, we aren’t going anywhere, we’re just going to get ugly for a few days before we emerge better than before. Sort of like plastic surgery, but without the swelling. Keep checking back, our new look should be up and running in the next couple of days. In the meantime, everything else should work!
It’s finally time to let your worries subside - New England just received a 72 hour pounding of snow under near zero temperatures, covering resorts from Vermont to Maine with 8-24 inches of dry, fluffy white stuff. Three distinct systems lined up to provide 10-12 inches each, starting early Friday afternoon and ending on Sunday night across most of the region.
The real winners were many of the smaller resorts in southern New Hampshire, where snowfall topped two feet in many areas. As of late Sunday night, Crotched Mountain was reporting 24 inches, as was Killington, Vermont. Nobody was left out of the action - snowfall totals in parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island topped 15 inches, while Sunday River and Sugarloaf in northern Maine received 4 inches. Read More…
