Snowboarding and the outdoors
Just got back from a nice little Snowboarding trip in an undisclosed location. What fun.
Looking forward to leaving NYC someday (probably soon).
It was strange, after being in the mountains for a week, coming home, turning on the TV and hearing about War and Terrorism again. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
Strange how fast a week in nature changes your outlook on things and how fast the human mind can purge itself of media remnants.
Anyone else snowboard?
Looking forward to leaving NYC someday (probably soon).
It was strange, after being in the mountains for a week, coming home, turning on the TV and hearing about War and Terrorism again. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
Strange how fast a week in nature changes your outlook on things and how fast the human mind can purge itself of media remnants.
Anyone else snowboard?
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Not interested in snowboarding in the least but I'd like to take up snowshoeing someday.
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<strong>I ski but with living in the UK the season is really short.</strong><hr></blockquote>
But Switzerland is only a hop, skip and a jump away! :cool:
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<strong>Well, I'm proud to say I've conquered the highest mountains in the land, <a href="http://www.lowefoto.com/lakes/lakes13.html" target="_blank">Scafell Pike</a> (England) and <a href="http://snowdonia-information.co.uk/snowdonian-photography/gallery/mountains/snowdon/36.Snowdon from the Pyg track.htm" target="_blank">Snowdon</a> (Wales), all 3,210 feet and 3,559 feet of them. </strong><hr></blockquote>
...how much of them are snow trails or are they suicide-friendly (snow wherever you want)?
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...how much of them are snow trails or are they suicide-friendly (snow wherever you want)?</strong><hr></blockquote>
The pictures in the links, especially the Snowdon one, are quite misleading. For most of the year you wouldn't find any snow at all (and there's even a railway running up the back side of Snowdon, with a cafe on the summit). <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
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I've been skiing in France (the Three Valleys, "the largest ski area in the world" ) but the last couple of years were my degree's honours years, so I was a little busy . I'm still watching for last minute baragains for this season.
A mountain is a mountain, wherever it is, but the only UK (snow) ski areas are in Scotland .
The UK doesn't have year round snow/glaciers anywhere. There are exceptional seasons: my parents have been skiing on the 25th of May :eek: in Scotland (sometime in the 1970s)!
A shame that you miss out on year round snow and glaciers. Glaciers are the win. Too bad all of the midlevel ones around 5000 feet or so are melting out due to global warming. But the ones higher up seem to be doing just fine, at least here in the US. One nice thing about being in an area with mild temps, lots of precipitation and some respectable elevation is that you can find snow in August, it still strikes me as odd everytime I see it but it is quite fun. On the bright side, you must have a longer hiking season. Here, if you go above say 4 or 5 thousand feet the snow doesn't melt out till June or July in most places.