riverc0il
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Who knows what I am talking about? Frantically digging through pages upon pages of online content and weather looking for that one report that validates your decision to drive 4+ round trip hours to go ski.
Don't get me wrong, not that I don't want to ski today. But if the natural setup poorly from the mix and the warmer weather at Jay, I ain't driving two hours each way to ski two trails worth of groomers. Conditions have been too good for frozen groomer track skiing... call me greedy.
I start reading into the weather report. When they say "it is finally cold enough to turn the snowmaking back on".... I suddenly pause and reconsider my plans. Then I read about suspect skiing at MRG and Wildcat yesterday on SkiVT-l along with powfreak staying on the groomers because the natural snow trails had frozen up day old tracks. Uh oh....
JD might say you don't know until you go. But I hate going four hours out of my way to ski two trails worth of groomers. I can be disappointed in the conditions and still have a good time but after two powder days and a ton of snow falling earlier this week, a groomer isn't going to cut it any more for four hours worth of driving. I might just as well sit tight today and head up to Cannon tomorrow which will probably offer better cruising than Jay despite getting less than half as much natural snow.
Any ways... do you get bogged down in the Go/No Go Decisions? Or do you make plans and go no matter what, frozen groomers and rain be damned? Does distance factor into the equation as it does in my example above? This question would apply to decisions not involving pre-booked lodging for which there is no option.
Don't get me wrong, not that I don't want to ski today. But if the natural setup poorly from the mix and the warmer weather at Jay, I ain't driving two hours each way to ski two trails worth of groomers. Conditions have been too good for frozen groomer track skiing... call me greedy.
I start reading into the weather report. When they say "it is finally cold enough to turn the snowmaking back on".... I suddenly pause and reconsider my plans. Then I read about suspect skiing at MRG and Wildcat yesterday on SkiVT-l along with powfreak staying on the groomers because the natural snow trails had frozen up day old tracks. Uh oh....
JD might say you don't know until you go. But I hate going four hours out of my way to ski two trails worth of groomers. I can be disappointed in the conditions and still have a good time but after two powder days and a ton of snow falling earlier this week, a groomer isn't going to cut it any more for four hours worth of driving. I might just as well sit tight today and head up to Cannon tomorrow which will probably offer better cruising than Jay despite getting less than half as much natural snow.
Any ways... do you get bogged down in the Go/No Go Decisions? Or do you make plans and go no matter what, frozen groomers and rain be damned? Does distance factor into the equation as it does in my example above? This question would apply to decisions not involving pre-booked lodging for which there is no option.
