"Bob Lee" wrote in message
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Maxprop wrote:

Bob Lee wrote:

Maxprop wrote:

Walt wrote:

Maxprop wrote:

OzOne wrote:

I love the west coast. Spent a month there last year all around
Tahoe
but unfortunately it wasn't the best season there.

It wasn't the best season anywhere last year, sadly. I went to
Colorado
and experienced the worst snow I could ever remember. When I was a
pro
ski patrolman at Breckenridge in the Seventies, we typically had in
excess of 200" per season. Last year they'd had a bit more than
90"
by
the middle of February.

You guys don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.

"2005-06 was the first season since 1998-99 with more ski areas
having
above average snow than below. The Northern Rockies and Northern
Colorado
had abundant snow from the start, with Utah similarly blessed from
early
December and the Pacific States from the holidays onwards. Only the
far
Southwest suffered, with minimal natural snow before March." -
http://members.aol.com/crockeraf/seas06.htm

Colorado had record snowfall. Tahoe absolutely got *pasted* late in
the
season. Sorry you were't in the right place at the right time, but
last
year was a *very* good year (except New Mexico).

Could have fooled me, Walt. The snow was lousy and icy for the
entire
week
we skied. And there were bare spots everywhere. Were we in the
Colorado
of
a parallel universe? :-)

You were fooled - one entire week (or even a month) does not a season
make, Maxprop. Perhaps you should have claimed that it wasn't the best
week of skiing you'd had or whatever, but as Walt and a couple of
Colorado residents have pointed out, last season was very, very good to
Colorado (the *******s) and California. Your problem here is
projecting
from that one week to the entire season.

FWIW, I was skiing in Colorado as late as Father's day:
http://hyperion.usc.edu/~jrredho/Ind...6/100_0079.jpg

See my post to Let Mikey Ski It. I could have sworn it was last year,
but
it turns out we were there in 2004. Oh well.

Ah well, *that* is perfectly understandable. A little temporal
disorientation, after all who among us hasn't suffered from that? I
once thought I was like the Billy Pilgrim character from Slaughterhouse
Five and I kept revisiting various summers in my life, worried that I
might never have winter and skiing again.

My sympathies for having to expose your foibles to your better half.
Who knows what that will cost you over time - you'll be lucky if it's
only another ski trip.

Her last comment: "Europe on odd years, domestic on even years. Can you
handle that?"

Sheesh. I'm really going to screw up the plan and suggest we ski Canada in
'07.

Max