Now, this is unfair...snow in Hawaii

[emmaurice2]

Photo by Ethan Tweedie

Snow on Mauna Kea & Mauna Loa...it happens from time to time but it just doesn't seem fair, right now.

More pictures here: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/slideshow?widgetid=46374

 

[andrec10]

Photo by Ethan Tweedie

Snow on Mauna Kea & Mauna Loa...it happens from time to time but it just doesn't seem fair, right now.

More pictures here: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/slideshow?widgetid=46374

Actually they have snow every year in Jan and Feb on the tops of the volcanoes. Nothing out of the ordinary!

 

[snowmonster]

There's skiing on Mauna Kea every year. Someday, I'll ski that in the morning then surf in the afternoon.

In the spirit of true surfers: Eddie would go!

 

[drjeff]

I'm pretty sure that if we in the Northeast had mountains that top out at a little under 14,000ft like Mona Kea, that we'd be having a much different (and snowier) winter than we've had!

 

[TheBEast]

I'm pretty sure that if we in the Northeast had mountains that top out at a little under 14,000ft like Mona Kea, that we'd be having a much different (and snowier) winter than we've had!

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but still doesn't seem right.....

 

[kingslug]

When I was there...I rally wanted to do it..they take you up in an SUV...never got around to it...

 

[emmaurice2]

There's skiing on Mauna Kea every year. Someday, I'll ski that in the morning then surf in the afternoon.

In the spirit of true surfers: Eddie would go!

That sounds like a great plan!

I didn't know it happened every year. My friend in Maui made it sound like it wasn't that consistent. Regardless, I think it's still pretty amazing and beautiful.

 

[St. Bear]

When I was there...I rally wanted to do it..they take you up in an SUV...never got around to it...

I could be wrong, but I thought I remember seeing that they stopped doing that and made it illegal to ski on the volcanoes because of the danger of falling on the lava rocks.

 

[Mapnut]

Here's a webcam on Mauna Loa, not the one they ski: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/MLcam/

Doesn't look like much right now because the flash didn't go off. Two days ago they had powder but yesterday it looked like freezing rain. St. Bear is probably not wrong, the rocks do look a little scratchy.

 

[legalskier]

it just doesn't seem fair, right now.

Understatement of the Year Award

 

[steamboat1]

There was a ski area up there at one time. The chairlift towers got covered in lava flow one year & the area never re-opened.

 

[drjeff]

There was a ski area up there at one time. The chairlift towers got covered in lava flow one year & the area never re-opened.

Think you've got he wrong volcano based ski area there Steamboat1.

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/maunakea/

Per the US Geological Survey, Mauna Kea last erupted approximately 4500 years ago

 

[steamboat1]

Think you've got he wrong volcano based ski area there Steamboat1.

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/maunakea/

Per the US Geological Survey, Mauna Kea last erupted approximately 4500 years ago

Nope, there was a ski area in Hawaii. Maybe not on that particular volcano but I have seen pictures of the chair towers submerged in lava. Can't find them right now, I'll look later.

 

[wa-loaf]

How about snow in Lebanon?

 

[marcski]

When I was there...I rally wanted to do it..they take you up in an SUV...never got around to it...

My fatherinlaw, who just recently passed away, has been to Hawaii a number of times, took his pedals and road shoes on one trip, rented a bicycle and cycled up to the top!

 

[marcski]

How about snow in Lebanon?

That is a ton of snow. But not so unusual, at least skiing in that vicinity...there is a ski area in Israel:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hermon

 

[snowmonster]

There indeed is skiing in Lebanon. I once had a Lebanese student. Took him to Sunday River on a powder day and it was still dumping when we got there. Somehow he couldn't manage the soft snow. He kept complaining how this would never happen in Lebanon. "How could they let people ski without grooming the pistes?" We wanted to push him off the chair after an hour of listening to this! Apparently, there's also a lot of good skiing in Iran and Afghanistan. Someday, perhaps it'll be quiet enough to get there. World peace through skiing!

Re: Hawaii - I don't recall any ski lifts on Mauna Kea. As I remember, only Mauna Kea had enough snow on it to be skiable. It was always a drive up affair. IIRC, the people who really skied there were usually the scientists in the Mauna Kea observatory. I don't recall any skiing on Mauna Loa. I'm curious about that claim about buried ski lifts.

Here's a trail map and some information: http://www.hawaiisnowskiclub.com/ski_hawaii.htm

 

[UVSHTSTRM]

There was a ski area up there at one time. The chairlift towers got covered in lava flow one year & the area never re-opened.

While I don't think this is true, I would love to be proven wrong.

 

[UVSHTSTRM]

There indeed is skiing in Lebanon. I once had a Lebanese student. Took him to Sunday River on a powder day and it was still dumping when we got there. Somehow he couldn't manage the soft snow. He kept complaining how this would never happen in Lebanon. "How could they let people ski without grooming the pistes?" We wanted to push him off the chair after an hour of listening to this! Apparently, there's also a lot of good skiing in Iran and Afghanistan. Someday, perhaps it'll be quiet enough to get there. World peace through skiing!

Re: Hawaii - I don't recall any ski lifts on Mauna Kea. As I remember, only Mauna Kea had enough snow on it to be skiable. It was always a drive up affair. IIRC, the people who really skied there were usually the scientists in the Mauna Kea observatory. I don't recall any skiing on Mauna Loa. I'm curious about that claim about buried ski lifts.

Here's a trail map and some information: http://www.hawaiisnowskiclub.com/ski_hawaii.htm

Lebanon actually has some real solid ski slopes/resorts. I think all the resorts and the one in Isreal (Hermon) are located in the same general vacinity. The resorts in Lebanon have a very comparable season length as that here in the eastern US. It's too bad there is so much instability in the area. Also to your point about Iran and Afghanistan, I believe Iran has the highest working lift in the world.

 

[wa-loaf]

While I don't think this is true, I would love to be proven wrong.

Mt Etna has skiing and I think they are periodically getting lifts taken down by lava flows. There are other ski areas located on volcanos that have the same issues.