Gary Roberts wrote:
Yep, although having said that we got some grapfel (sp?) a few minutes ago. Clear again now though.
yea we had a little sleet and small hail here earlier too.
I beg to differ. There has been less snow this year than in previous years, nd there was bugger all snow in those years too. I work on mountaintops quite often and I cannot recall a time when there has been so little snow up on them.
Depends where you are I guess, I know parts of canterbury aren't going so well, like the craigieburns, but by all accounts Mt Hutt is miles better than 2005. But I ride in the southern lakes, mainly coronet and remarks, and to be quite honest, while the depth has been down slightly at remarkables (coronet is about bang on mean snow depth) the very cold conditions early on have ensured the snowpack has lasted well up till when the goods arrive, ie now. Hell I've spent just as much time in backbowls so far this year as I have any other year. By the way, I never said the snow was fantastic, or tried to exaggerate, although it has been pretty good, I simply countered your statements that implied that all the skifields are crap this year. Which is rubbish. One more thing, snow guns? Der.
Yep it happens, some of us go up there and enjoy it twhen it actually is good. Snow reports are run through the marketing dept. after all. That's what webcams and the osc climate station etc.. are for.
I'm quite fond of it myself, but not to the extent that I will pretend it exists when it doesn't.
I'm not pretending it doesn't exist, simply clearing up rather misleading statements made by yourself.
OONCE-OONCE-OONCE-"RAD-WICKED-RAD-WICKED!"-OONCE-OONCE-OONCE-"RAD-WICKED-RAD-WICKED!"-OONCE-OONCE-OONCE... Troyz, Shanez, and the Boyz in their lowered Legacy wih Milo tin exhaust, doing 180 kph through the town and past the school...
Or,
"So I said to Penelope, why don't - TRISTRAM! Stay away from those people! They're wearing *overalls* for God's sake! - Where was I? Oh that's right, I asked Penelope why we don't just get the money from her Uncle - you remember him? He's on the board at Fletchers... - Anyway, I told her that we should just get the money for the new tennis courts from - Oh. My. God! Jemima, don't look. Behind you. There's a woman who looks as if she fell asleep at the end of the 2005 season and she's just woke up still wearing the same ski pants! Honestly, they'll let just *anybody* into this place nowadays! But as I was saying, the new courts..." - Annabelle Forbes-Smythe, on her cellphone just before she blasts away through the town at 180kph in the Porsche Cayenne her dad bought her.
yes there are idiots who like snowsports, but you get that with anything...
but the example you just made is a dangerous and misleading stereotype, and any time other than the july school holidays, nearly non existent.
Then the reports come from trustworthy sources, rather than skifield operators, I'll start cartwheeling around my office.
Such as the mountain safety council? Farmers? Truck Drivers? All generally pretty trustworthy with these things, getting it right is a bit more important to them....
I believe things (and report them) when I see them. You pray for snow. See the difference?
and I have seen and heard reports of this happening. You discredit things you don't like/can't handle.
You come across as one ignorant prat, with a seemingly limited knowledge of something you spout about like some sort of pseudo expert.
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Bunch of stupid dishonest p*":&*, the lot of them.
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