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March 2012........Happy Sping


Mr Torchey

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No, skins are a back country ski component. Often called climbing skins they are a type of laminate that adhere to the bottom of your skis and usually clip to the tip and tail to provide traction for climbing up inclines. They sort of turn your ski into a snow shoe for getting up high in the back country and then you peel them off for your downhill descent. They are necessary for steeper ascents (real steep requires snow shoes with skis strapped to your pack) but for slight to moderate climbing grip wax will do just fine. You would only use skins for back country telemark skis set ups or for randonee (girly-man) back country bindings.

Skins hanging off poles drying off before being packed away for the descent.lol Cold Miser has a dirty mind, he'll have fun with that one.

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Hovered in the low/mid 30s here overnight so the snow melt was arrested temporarily. One last morning of a white landscape before we lose almost everything in the sunny areas today with a forecast high of 62.

Actually saying up to 1/2 inch tonight after the fropa as temps plunge into the 20s. I don't get the NWS point forecast high of 39 tomorrow with 850 temps of -12C, seems too high.

47.5/45...Off to the races already

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I worked at a Roy Rogers that summer of '88. LOL It was really hot working in the backroom making their fried chicken. But then I went to Germany to visit family etc. around August 1st and escaped the heat armageddon for the rest of the summer.

I worked construction and at a supermarket in 1988. That was an awful summer. Endless humidity

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sorry my focus is not IMBY anymore but NWS has it in their forecasts and the Euro shows it. Kevin has not gotten one forecast right since October. 1-2 seems good for those Kev said would never see snow again, according to the Euro

I could see it ending as some snow, but not sure about those accumulations.

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