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ElbridgeGerry
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What's the craziest weather you guys have ever experienced while skiing, or if you've never had bad weather skiing, just bad weather in general.
May 6 2009 9:13PM
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ryan.c
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i saw it snow while lightning once...crazy shit
May 6 2009 9:15PM
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ElbridgeGerry
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Whaaaat? How is that even possible.
May 6 2009 9:18PM
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skijunkiedtm
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i went from a weeeeee bit of fresh snow, to thick ice crust from rain to sleet in 3 hours.
May 6 2009 9:21PM
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artfullydodged
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white-outs are crazy
May 6 2009 9:24PM
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ElbridgeGerry
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I was in Jackson Hole over the winter break a couple years ago, and it was like 40 below at the END of the day, I don't think they opened the lifts till about 10
May 6 2009 9:29PM
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SKETCHY_D
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i went from partly cloudy skies to whiteout as soon as i get in bowl in montana and with half anhour of traversing and at bottom of bowl go back to sunny
May 6 2009 9:49PM
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.AR6rider.
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A couple years ago my dad and I went out to Beaver Creek.  Our first day there we decided to head up for a few runs before they closed the lifts.  Halfway up the lift it became a total white out.  We couldn't see anything at all.  We tried to ski back down to the house where we were staying but we got lost because we couldn't see five feet in front of us (and neither of us had been there before).  It took us like an hour plus to get down and by that time the lifts were closed, so we had to hike back up to get back to the house.  It sucked. 
May 6 2009 10:20PM
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Slinger1x1
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fog in NZ was soooo bad one day, that i couldn't see3 feet in front of me. i had to follow a fence down the mountain
May 6 2009 10:27PM
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Beefcake
Posts: 378 - Karma: 10

vertigo sux.

theyve closed the lift down at mt,rose multiple times because of lightning, even when its like 25 degrees out.

May 6 2009 10:31PM
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jblaski
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Good ol' Wisconsin has given me all kinds of crazy weather that I"ve snowboarded in.

- Thunder snow. Super cool! I've only seen in 3 times.

- This year, we had a matter of 3 hours it switched from pouring rain, to freezing rain, to sleet, to dumping snow (6+ inches).

- 20 below zero air temperature. It's a double bandana day.
May 6 2009 10:37PM
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Ben.
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-35 at big sky. that was gnarly.

and i watched lightning strike a tree in front of my house once, that was gnarly. the tree just blew up
May 6 2009 10:39PM
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skiminnesota
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hail skiing. lightning, thunder.

ive gotta add this spring while skiing at Snowbasin i skied from 100% whiteout. into semi white out, (no snow) into snow, and down into sun. twas pretty cool.

-20f air temp.
May 6 2009 10:44PM
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Ben.
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to clarify it was -35 before the wind chill.
May 6 2009 10:46PM
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Piste.Off
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I have skied 1ft of powder then golfed in 70 degree weather that same afternoon
May 6 2009 10:50PM
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Rafe
Posts: 254 - Karma: 13
Skiing and hearing avalanches let loose is scary shit for sure it sounds like everything around you is sliding even if it's DOT blasting miles away.

Skiing in fog at night when there is no horizon line just bright spots and white. It made me want to lie down and think about what I was doing. I got super confused. seeing people ski away in white and having zero depth perception.
May 7 2009 12:31AM
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Deletedtoday
Posts: 4060 - Karma: 398
loudest thunder ive ever heard no lighting thought that i could see
May 7 2009 12:34AM
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skier_boy26
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young gun open at mt seymour - wasnt like crazy crazy weather, more of just a bitch, considering it was windy, white out, dumping, all that, and we had to hike it for hours and hours.

skiing at hood then a thunderstrom rolled in and sheets of lightning were goin across the sky above us as we mached down to the lodge.

otherwise generally pretty benign weather in washington.
May 7 2009 12:49AM
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