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| # Posted 2008-03-05 20:47:19 | |
| bubo: | I´ve had very few opportunities to practice my yowsa skills this winter and the season for yowsa may well be over this year in Sweden.
We´ve had a very strange 'winter' - with cold weather for long periods of time but no snow coming down interchanged with long periods of mild weather but lots of rain. The combination of those would have been better for skiing, but unfortunately it has not been so. |
| # Posted 2008-03-05 21:19:44 | |
| Swampfox: | Tom (Hollowell) told me that this winter there has been a snow line about 2 hours north of Karlstad, and if you were north of that, then it's been a great winter for snow, and if you live south of it, then it's been a great year for scuba diving, ducks, and orienteers who love to run in the rain. I may be paraphrasing a tiny amount, but that was the gist of his comments, I believe.
Sometimes when it gets a little windy out, I think about how it could be to be running in the rain at night in the winter instead, and it's just amazing how my attitude shifts! ; ) |
| # Posted 2008-03-06 13:15:40 | |
| bubo: | Snow line has been a bit further north and west than usual but as you say in some places they´ve also had one of the best winters in a long time.
In Borlänge it´s been a bad (i.e. relatively snowless) winter while they don´t seem to have had very much problems in Mora for Vasaloppet. Of course they are putting a lot of effort into making artificial snow and distribute that, but there´s quite a lot of natural snow as well as a base. Skiing has been possible here in a few places all through the winter, but the rainy weather and the addition of travel has limited our skiing opportunities. My view is that skiing should be done in winter conditions and not in the rain on a narrow string of snow. There will almost certainly be more snow before spring is finally here but I think I may already have done my last skiing and skating for this winter. |
| # Posted 2008-03-07 07:51:09 | |
| Swampfox: | I just want to state for the record that I have had nothing to do with the snow disparity in middle Sweden, or even southern Sweden. But I am specifically excluding Skane and possibly even Blekinge as areas where I might not have had any influence whatsoever.
Personally, if the only skiing that was available to me was on a 1.5 km loop of artificial construct, I would go home and watch the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders tryouts on cable TV instead. Real skiers don't ski without snowsnakes lurking in the snowbanks, and that's for sure. |
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