Post here if you can see more than 4 feet of snow in a year.

8/19/2005 10:48:33 PM

I don't know about that shit but I do know that if you learn to ski in SW NC (ie Cataloochee) you can ski anywhere. Seriously, I've been to Utah and Colorado and been like "OMF!!!! SNOW!!!" in NC it just various forms of ice.


If you're talking about blizzards ask me about "The Great Blizzard of '93"

Different story... 10/14 days w/o power.

8/20/2005 2:25:03 AM

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"I do know that if you learn to ski in SW NC (ie Cataloochee) you can ski anywhere."

that is horribly incorrect.

8/20/2005 8:21:12 AM

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"I do know that if you learn to ski in SW NC (ie Cataloochee) you can ski anywhere."

that is horribly incorrect.

8/20/2005 8:21:12 AM

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"The Great Blizzard of '93"

Oh sweet god, the GReAT BLIZZARD!!! Dumped all of what, 20 inches?

North Carolina doesn't get much snow, sorry.

Oh, and

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"that is horribly incorrect."

8/20/2005 3:06:15 PM

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"that is horribly incorrect. "

yeah, you'll be good at skiing on ice and shitty snow, but the first time you go out west and see something truly steep, you will be a student skiier all over again. not to mention the first time you ski deep powder.

8/20/2005 5:26:05 PM

I'm only 200 miles away from Vermont now, so I imagine I'm in for some winter treats.

8/20/2005 5:27:09 PM

thats AT LEAST a 6 hour drive in the winter.. unless you want to do the shitty ones. I prefer the ones farther north though.

8/20/2005 6:19:15 PM

yeah, learning to ski in NC is nice to learn to deal with ice, but there are no steep slopes anywhere in the state. Go down Corbet's couloir in Jackson Hole, or Great Scott at Snowbird and tell me there is anything like it in NC.

8/20/2005 8:23:49 PM

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"I prefer the ones farther north though."

But isn't your only skiing experience Snowshoe?

8/22/2005 10:51:15 AM

nah I went to Vermont the last 2 times I was up to CT..

8/22/2005 11:06:39 AM

oooooooooooooh

8/22/2005 11:14:29 AM

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"Oh sweet god, the GReAT BLIZZARD!!! Dumped all of what, 20 inches?"

that depends where you were. In Boone/Blowing Rock we had upwards of 3.5-4 feet, with 4+ feet easy on mountains like Beech and Grandfather Mtn. It was a damned mess, but it happened in late March I think (right on Spring/Easter break if I recall), and temps went up within a few days and it was mostly gone within 10 days.

Now granted Boone and the NC Mtns (northwestern mountains) are nothing like CO or out west, or even in New England, but it does get bitterly cold up there compared to Raleigh and the Piedmont, and has significantly higher winds and more snow. e.g. check out this comparison between Raleigh and Banner Elk, and look at the record lows. http://tinyurl.com/asyu5
Banner Elk has recorded negative temperatures in 5 months of the year (and snow in all months except August), where as raleigh has only been negative in 1 month. Windchills up there go to -30 to -50 or less several times through each winter

8/22/2005 12:15:38 PM

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"4+"

I think locals have a tendency of exaggerating the effects of the storm, I know that people in Asheville certainly did. The highest listing I saw for Boone was 30"+, anything over that may have been a snow drift.

At any rate, my point was to put down the comment

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"If you're talking about blizzards ask me about "The Great Blizzard of '93""

The snow storms here are incomparable to the Rockies, and as you pointed out the NEasters.



[Edited on August 22, 2005 at 1:15 PM. Reason : .]

8/22/2005 1:14:23 PM

I like how the ski reports in NC always say stuff like "100 inch base" and you get out there and see bare spots. Most of the time Sugar might have 100 inches of base if they piled all the snow on the mountain in a 10 square foot area.

8/22/2005 2:29:06 PM

^^ ok, yeah - i think no matter where you're from you tend to exaggerate your weather extremes.
So here's info about the 93 blizzard from "Fred's general merchantile", a store on the side of Beech Mtn - http://www.mountaintimes.com/mtweekly/2003/1106/beech_weather.php3
They confirm that 48" fell in that storm, so no, not "4+ easy". But boone and the surrounding areas also had about that - ~3.5+.
so yeah, that's a hell of a big difference than Buffalo where they were getting something like 6' per week or something re-donkulous a year or two ago. but hey, we're still considered "in the south", so that's not bad - again, especially considering the drastic difference from just an hour down the mountain.

8/22/2005 3:03:01 PM

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"piled all the snow on the mountain in a 10 square foot area."

winner. they measure the height of the banks that the groomers form

8/22/2005 6:11:43 PM

You can get to 7 world class ski mountains in under an hour and a half from my new apartment. My pass is going to work for 5 of them.

BobbyT, when do you want to come skiing?

8/23/2005 10:48:25 PM

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"Now granted Boone and the NC Mtns (northwestern mountains) are nothing like CO or out west, or even in New England, but it does get bitterly cold up there compared to Raleigh and the Piedmont, and has significantly higher winds and more snow."

NC mountains are nothing like CO in terms of size, steepness, or snow. However, I generally feel colder going up to ski in NC than in CO. The air is more dense and less dry, carrying away more heat from your body even if the actual temperature is a bit warmer.

8/24/2005 8:48:43 AM