Is it worthwhile going down to Perisher on Monday? And other mulesings.

[Andy]

Okay just joking.

This was the worst ever ski season I have encountered.

Add that to the fact that skiing on the west coast of canada was not so
flash the past season, and it all spells trouble to the ski resorts.

Blame global warming.

It is not going to get better I fear, what with the drought now
entering its 6th!!!!! year.

Anyone for the beach?

Oh I forgot Canadians don't have beaches only logs. About time you
fellas come over here for a visit and maybe imigrate. We are short of
engineers and scientists.

[Norm]

Post by Andy
Okay just joking.
This was the worst ever ski season I have encountered.
Add that to the fact that skiing on the west coast of canada was not so
flash the past season, and it all spells trouble to the ski resorts.

Wasn't epic, but it had its moments. The season before was a disaster for
the entire Pac Northwest. BC interior survived, but barely.

Post by Andy
Blame global warming.
It is not going to get better I fear, what with the drought now
entering its 6th!!!!! year.
Anyone for the beach?
Oh I forgot Canadians don't have beaches only logs.

http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/silverbe.html
http://www.shuswap.bc.ca/Beaches.htm

Not quite Malibu, but the ski resorts here aren't quite Vail and thats kind
of the point isn't it?
If I choose todrive more than 45 minutes from my front door I could find a
few more.

Post by Andy
About time you
fellas come over here for a visit and maybe imigrate. We are short of
engineers and scientists.

Where is "over here"? When you post thru google we don't know if its Alberta
or Afghanistan.
Perisher is Aus, isn't it?

[Walt]

Post by Andy
Anyone for the beach?
Oh I forgot Canadians don't have beaches only logs.

Um....no. There are some pretty nice beaches along the Lake Huron
Shoreline.

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The skiing's nothing to write home about, but the beaches are nice.

Post by Andy
About time you
fellas come over here for a visit and maybe imigrate. We are short of
engineers and scientists.

Don't tempt me.

//Walt

[Damien McBain]

Post by Norm

Post by Andy
Okay just joking.
This was the worst ever ski season I have encountered.
Add that to the fact that skiing on the west coast of canada was not so
flash the past season, and it all spells trouble to the ski resorts.

Wasn't epic, but it had its moments. The season before was a disaster for
the entire Pac Northwest. BC interior survived, but barely.

Let's hope Whistler is fantastic in January.

< some snippage>

Post by Norm
Where is "over here"? When you post thru google we don't know if its Alberta
or Afghanistan.
Perisher is Aus, isn't it?

yep, the biggest of our few humble ski resorts.

[BigAir]

yep, [perisher is] the biggest of our few humble ski resorts.

It was the resort that held out the longest for the season - just one day later
than Falls Creek and a week later than Mt Hotham. Through-out 2006, I went 5 times
to the snow (all the way from Adelaide) and apart from the trip I made to Mt
Selwyn during the mid-year school holidays, all the other trips coincided with
some snow falls. I ended up having a decent time and it was worth the 12 hour trip
each time.

[JQ]

Post by BigAir

yep, [perisher is] the biggest of our few humble ski resorts.

It was the resort that held out the longest for the season - just one day later
than Falls Creek and a week later than Mt Hotham. Through-out 2006, I went 5 times
to the snow (all the way from Adelaide) and apart from the trip I made to Mt
Selwyn during the mid-year school holidays, all the other trips coincided with
some snow falls. I ended up having a decent time and it was worth the 12 hour trip
each time.

I thought I was crazy driving 7 - 9 hours to ski.

JQ
Dancing on the edge

[BigAir]

Post by JQ

Post by BigAir
It was the resort that held out the longest for the season - just one day later
than Falls Creek and a week later than Mt Hotham. Through-out 2006, I went 5 times
to the snow (all the way from Adelaide) and apart from the trip I made to Mt
Selwyn during the mid-year school holidays, all the other trips coincided with
some snow falls. I ended up having a decent time and it was worth the 12 hour trip
each time.

I thought I was crazy driving 7 - 9 hours to ski.

....hey!!....that was a fast reply.....I thought no-one would read anything in
here until the next OZ snow season.

I do work in the Alpine area so it is a working holiday (so to speak). Plus, I
own a 12-seater bus and so I took other people with me and they paid me enough
money so that my fuel costs were covered.

[Damien McBain]

Post by BigAir

Post by JQ

Post by BigAir
It was the resort that held out the longest for the season - just one day later
than Falls Creek and a week later than Mt Hotham. Through-out 2006, I went 5 times
to the snow (all the way from Adelaide) and apart from the trip I made to Mt
Selwyn during the mid-year school holidays, all the other trips coincided with
some snow falls. I ended up having a decent time and it was worth the 12 hour trip
each time.

I thought I was crazy driving 7 - 9 hours to ski.

....hey!!....that was a fast reply.....I thought no-one would read anything in
here until the next OZ snow season.

I still check aus.snow every day :)

Post by BigAir
I do work in the Alpine area so it is a working holiday (so to speak). Plus, I
own a 12-seater bus and so I took other people with me and they paid me enough
money so that my fuel costs were covered.

I live in Perth - it's a plane fare for me, there's no way I'm driving 40
hours for anything! I can't wait to get back to Melb.

[BigAir]

Post by Damien McBain
I still check aus.snow every day :)

Great!!!....another dedicated snow-buff. Nice to meet you, Damien.

Do you ski or snowboard?....or both?

Post by Damien McBain
I live in Perth - it's a plane fare for me, there's no way I'm driving 40
hours for anything! I can't wait to get back to Melb.

Fair enough....and the way the snow season went this year, the snow would have
melted by the time you got there.....hahaha.

[Damien McBain]

Post by BigAir

Post by Damien McBain
I still check aus.snow every day :)

Great!!!....another dedicated snow-buff. Nice to meet you, Damien.
Do you ski or snowboard?....or both?

Ski. I tried snowboarding in 2004 at Hotham (bloody awesome snow) only
because I got shin splints and couldn't ski. Snowboarding looks like fun
but my time at the snow is too precious to spend alternating between my
face and arse buried in the snow :)

Post by BigAir

Post by Damien McBain
I live in Perth - it's a plane fare for me, there's no way I'm driving 40
hours for anything! I can't wait to get back to Melb.

Fair enough....and the way the snow season went this year, the snow would have
melted by the time you got there.....hahaha.

I was lucky enough to be at Falls in the first week of August - the only
week that was even half decent - so I'm pretty happy about that. Whistler
in January 07 - oooo yeah.

[BigAir]

Post by Damien McBain
I was lucky enough to be at Falls in the first week of August - the only
week that was even half decent - so I'm pretty happy about that. Whistler
in January 07 - oooo yeah.

Now you are talking!!!!....I am hoping to go to Japan next January for snowboarding.
I own 8 boards 'cause I share with other people and I can use the best one to suit
respective snow conditions and landscape.

[Roger Caffin]

Post by BigAir
Now you are talking!!!!....I am hoping to go to Japan next January for snowboarding.
I own 8 boards 'cause I share with other people and I can use the best one to suit
respective snow conditions and landscape.

Just out of curiosity: will you take all eight boards to Japan?

Cheers
Roger Caffin
(backcountry skis and snowshoes)

[Paul Day]

Post by BigAir

Post by BigAir
Now you are talking!!!!....I am hoping to go to Japan next January
for

snowboarding.

Post by BigAir
I own 8 boards 'cause I share with other people and I can use the
best one

to suit

Post by BigAir
respective snow conditions and landscape.

Just out of curiosity: will you take all eight boards to Japan?

That sounds like an expensive excess baggage bill. :-/

Although if you fly to/from/via North America, you get to take two bags
in econ. class, not the normal one.

PD

[BigAir]

Post by Paul Day
That sounds like an expensive excess baggage bill. :-/
Although if you fly to/from/via North America, you get to take two bags
in econ. class, not the normal one.

Quite right.....although I saw some good tips in a magazine about how to fly with
a snowboard (considered oversize/overweight) but in the normal airfare without
being charged extra. I'll try what they say and if it works, I will post the tips
here!!

[Paul Day]

Post by BigAir
Quite right.....although I saw some good tips in a magazine about how
to fly with a snowboard (considered oversize/overweight) but in the
normal airfare without being charged extra. I'll try what they say and
if it works, I will post the tips here!!

Any tips on getting a second 20kg bag full of equipment on an economy
flight with AirNZ in December? :)

My brother did stacks of kayaking around the world through-out the 90s.
One time (on a Qantas plane) his boat "wouldn't fit" so to get it in the
hold they snapped the front 1 foot off the nose of the boat - a rather
expensive Canadian boat made of moulded kevlar, which obviously couldn't
be fixed to quite its original condition. ;)

And yes, he'd paid the excess baggage for it. :)

PD

[BigAir]

Post by BigAir

Post by BigAir
Now you are talking!!!!....I am hoping to go to Japan next January for

snowboarding.

Post by BigAir
I own 8 boards 'cause I share with other people and I can use the best one

to suit

Post by BigAir
respective snow conditions and landscape.

Just out of curiosity: will you take all eight boards to Japan?

hmmm.....nah.

I'll probably take just my wide MadHouse board seeing as it seems to "float" in
power snow - but it's not so good in tight corners. I love the Santa Cruz board
as well.

[Paul Day]

Post by BigAir
I'll probably take just my wide MadHouse board seeing as it seems to
"float" in power snow - but it's not so good in tight corners.

How did it like the grass and the rocks in Australia's winter this year? ;)

PD

[Damien McBain]

Post by Paul Day

Post by BigAir
I'll probably take just my wide MadHouse board seeing as it seems to
"float" in power snow - but it's not so good in tight corners.

How did it like the grass and the rocks in Australia's winter this year? ;)

It was a good season to hire :P

[Paul Day]

Post by Damien McBain
It was a good season to hire :P

Indeed. And every time I'd hear that "crack" and "scape" I'd be worried
next time it'd be my butt going over one of those exposed rocks and not
the hire skis. ;)

PD

[BigAir]

Post by Paul Day

Post by BigAir
I'll probably take just my wide MadHouse board seeing as it seems to
"float" in power snow - but it's not so good in tight corners.

How did it like the grass and the rocks in Australia's winter this year? ;)

I took a pounding.....chips, scratches, dents - total abuse.

But I seem to have more fun on it than any other bouard I've used.

[Two Buddha]

Hey, whatever happened to Anthea Kerrison? Bitch finally figure out that
people read usenet and figured her out as a psychopath?
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Post by Damien McBain

Post by BigAir

Post by Damien McBain
I still check aus.snow every day :)

Great!!!....another dedicated snow-buff. Nice to meet you, Damien.
Do you ski or snowboard?....or both?

Ski. I tried snowboarding in 2004 at Hotham (bloody awesome snow) only
because I got shin splints and couldn't ski. Snowboarding looks like fun
but my time at the snow is too precious to spend alternating between my
face and arse buried in the snow :)

Post by BigAir

Post by Damien McBain
I live in Perth - it's a plane fare for me, there's no way I'm driving 40
hours for anything! I can't wait to get back to Melb.

Fair enough....and the way the snow season went this year, the snow would have
melted by the time you got there.....hahaha.

I was lucky enough to be at Falls in the first week of August - the only
week that was even half decent - so I'm pretty happy about that. Whistler
in January 07 - oooo yeah.

[Damien McBain]

Hey, whatever happened to... <snip>

Plonk!

[Two Buddha]

Hey, whatever happened to that cunt Anthea Kerrison?
Plonk!

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Hey, whatever happened to... <snip>

Plonk!

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Post by Two Buddha
Hey, whatever happened to that cunt Anthea Kerrison?
Plonk!

Well, we do know what happened to that cunt, Scott Abraham. "Two Holes"
is still chasing his own fat ass on RSA. Ya know if you had put all
that time to good use, you could have had that job you always dreamed
of (and were qualified for) - like head usher at the local movie
theater or bus boy at Taco Bell.

[Two Buddha]

Travellingsexshow? What's that mean? You pull you pud whenever you travel?
You put on donkey shows with Anthea Kerrison?
Amazing.
Just another dickless wimp.....
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Post by Two Buddha
Hey, whatever happened to that cunt Anthea Kerrison?
Plonk!

Well, we do know what happened to that cunt, Scott Abraham. "Two Holes"
is still chasing his own fat ass on RSA. Ya know if you had put all
that time to good use, you could have had that job you always dreamed
of (and were qualified for) - like head usher at the local movie
theater or bus boy at Taco Bell.

[Paul Day]

Post by Andy
Oh I forgot Canadians don't have beaches only logs. About time you
fellas come over here for a visit and maybe imigrate. We are short of
engineers and scientists.

Especially in Calgary? :)

PD