Days getting shorter, here comes winter

**huckasoreass** · 06-22-2005, 08:51 AM

Well, maybe we've got a ways to go, but the days are growing shorter for the next six months!

Bizarre question: What would you rather have?
1) The standard winter for five months, with sporadic good snow days
or
2) A seasonless year, during which you might get 2-3 powder days a week year-round, with no snow and 50-90 degrees every day in between?

**snorkeldeep** · 06-22-2005, 08:56 AM

id like it to be always cold and dumping in the mountains, always hot at the beach, and right around 70 in my house all the time.

**Below Zero** · 06-22-2005, 08:57 AM

Huh? 2-3 powder days with no snow. Am I the only one not understanding this question?

**Laps** · 06-22-2005, 08:59 AM

Maybe the powder he is talking about isn't snow.......

**El Chupacabra** · 06-22-2005, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by huckasoreass

Well, maybe we've got a ways to go, but the days are growing shorter for the next six months!

Bizarre question: What would you rather have?
1) The standard winter for five months, with sporadic good snow days
or
2) A seasonless year, during which you might get 2-3 powder days a week year-round, with no snow and 50-90 degrees every day in between?

I'll take door # 3): repeat the winter of 2004-2005, every year, except that I'd like it to dump a little less in Reno, and we can skip that whole month-long inversion too. Basically I'd like massive storms hitting the Sierras about every 2-3 days, but with a snow level of 5300 feet on the eastern side.

I think the PNW mags would rather skip any repeats of the 2004-05 winter though.

13 · 06-22-2005, 09:13 AM

I kinda like snorkeldeep's version.

**huckasoreass** · 06-22-2005, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Below Zero

Huh? 2-3 powder days with no snow. Am I the only one not understanding this question?

'No snow' on the days that aren't pow days. In other words, you're not able to ski groomers, play in the park, hike to snow, anything after the mid-July sick powder day, because there isn't any snow whatsoever. Like a surfer having an ideal day, only to wake up the next morning to find the ocean completely flat.

**Below Zero** · 06-22-2005, 09:19 AM

Gotcha! I like the anticipation of powder days though, so I guess I would take #1. You know, monitoring the radar, checking the websites, getting up early, calling the snowline and then finding out it has dumped like 10" (OK, that's big for CO). That's a thrill even before you get on the snow!

**powstash** · 06-22-2005, 09:24 AM

In that case - I'll take a normal 5 months of winter. Can't hit big lines in the Wasnatch without a little high pressure and sunny days.

04-05 season could just repeat itself for years to come. This season started in October and was still alive last week. I'm all about minimizing my summer.

**belgian** · 06-22-2005, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by snorkeldeep

id like it to be always cold and dumping in the mountains, always hot at the beach, and right around 70 in my house all the time.

I'm digging on this idea.

**bcrider** · 06-22-2005, 09:38 AM

A normal season is only 5 months?

I can’t remember the last season I only skied for 5 months.

**cj001f** · 06-22-2005, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by belgian

I'm digging on this idea.

May I suggest California? I'll take the real winter.

**Monique** · 06-22-2005, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by powstash

04-05 season could just repeat itself for years to come.

OW OW OW OW OW OW OW!!! Enough salt in our wounds!

As a NW mag I vote for real winter, like any of the past ten years EXCEPT this one. But if you vote for me as Czarina of Winter I promise to assign different years to different regions, i.e. 04-05 for Sierra and Wasatch, 01-02 for the Cascades, etc.

**PNWbrit** · 06-22-2005, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Monique

OW OW OW OW OW OW OW!!! Enough salt in our wounds!

As a NW mag I vote for real winter, like any of the past ten years EXCEPT this one. But if you vote for me as Czarina of Winter I promise to assign different years to different regions, i.e. 04-05 for Sierra and Wasatch, 01-02 for the Cascades, etc.

Please can we have a 98-99 for the Cascades?

**Monique** · 06-22-2005, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Please can we have a 98-99 for the Cascades?

And so, you shall!

**bdog** · 06-22-2005, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Please can we have a 98-99 for the Cascades?

Copy THAT! Bring on La Nina! We want the little girl!

**bdog** · 06-22-2005, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by Monique

And so, you shall!

You have my vote for Zarina, Emperess or whatever .. if it brings on the dumpage.

**FreakofSnow** · 06-22-2005, 11:15 PM

I'd like to buy a vowel

**MOHSHSIHd** · 06-23-2005, 01:41 AM

Originally Posted by Below Zero

Gotcha! I like the anticipation of powder days though, so I guess I would take #1. You know, monitoring the radar, checking the websites, getting up early, calling the snowline and then finding out it has dumped like 10" (OK, that's big for CO). That's a thrill even before you get on the snow!

dude..i dont know...its different here or something...10-14 inch days in CO have felt equally epic to the hyper deep Utah days i had this year.....

i like choking on really cold snow when your face is numb from the cold fluff...

but, to answer the thread i would take year round winter...

im enough of a slacker to make good use of mid-week pow in july..