Ski lift maintenance made easy

[ckissick]

At Bear Valley south of Tahoe.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Send some my way!

[Scott Douglas]

Is that when a 'ski lift' turns into a 'rope tow'?

[stevej37]

Better than a Poma Lift.

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by stevej37

Better than a Poma Lift.

Pomas are brilliant snowboard repellents. (and awesome for running despite high winds) I always liked the surface lifts as they kept your weight on your feet and kept the blood moving - so warmer feet.

We're jealous out here in NM that, while we've had an average winter, some of that hammering that CA is getting would be welcome here. I'd like to ski and play golf on the same day, hopefully after Easter.

Nonetheless - that monster snow is crazy. I might not want to live with it, but I'd surely like to play with it for a bit...

[gregpark]

That's 18 miles from my cabin. I think I'm buried

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by gregpark

That's 18 miles from my cabin. I think I'm buried

It's 5 miles from my future cabin site in Shy High Ranch, Tamarack. And yes, the houses there are totally buried.

[Mike Andrew]

July closing like A Basin?

[gregpark]

Their lease forces them to end the ski season after Easter. Its national forest land so we've run our snow mobiles up there and continued the ski season. Legal and fun. No groomed runs though ha ha

[gregpark]

Originally Posted by ckissick

It's 5 miles from my future cabin site in Shy High Ranch, Tamarack. And yes, the houses there are totally buried.

I'm down at the river at Board's Crossing (turn at Dorrington) a lower elevation but I'll bet I have 6' or so there now. You guys at Sky High get hammered. Keep a snow machine at the bottom!

[Mike Andrew]

Snow machine is a good work around.

[stevej37]

^^^
In my 'neck of the woods' we call them snowmobiles or sleds.
A snow machine is used to make snow for the skiers.

But thats Michigan....just sayin.

[Mike Andrew]

I actually prefer Cheddar Sleds.

UP Saturday for a few days to finish the ski season and stock up on pasties.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by Mike Andrew

I actually prefer Cheddar Sleds.
UP Saturday for a few days to finish the ski season and stock up on pasties.

Love those pasties! It's been a few years for me.
They offer them here in some grocery stores, but they aren't nearly as good.

[Mike Andrew]

Rigoni's Bakery in Ironwood. Mmm the best- original or Cornish. I'll bring home a dozen frozen.
And they make great cookies��

[stevej37]

^^^ My younger sister lived in Laona, WI for a number of years. Would always go through the UP to visit her. Pasties were the reason for not going around the southern way (thru Chicago) The distance was almost identical either way.

[pwd72s]

What I'm seeing is lots of water for California "drought stricken" reservoirs.

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by gregpark

Their lease forces them to end the ski season after Easter. Its national forest land so we've run our snow mobiles up there and continued the ski season. Legal and fun. No groomed runs though ha ha

As a CO skier in the '90s (and occasional engineering student) it just killed me how the leases would force closures in early April. Heck, March is traditionally the snowiest month in that part of the rockies. "Sorry kids, we have to close with our 130" base and endless bluebird conditions because of this law..."

April golf is ok-ish, but April skiing is awesome! So is it in May. June even from year to year.

We're getting just a little of the "river" here in north NM so we'll have at least a weekend or two more in the season. The sun and very dry winds just destroy the snowpack though. Our season is set more by the sun exposure to the slopes than anything else. Once it hits, the snow's quickly gone and we get to play fire-season.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

What I'm seeing is lots of water for California "drought stricken" reservoirs.

Yep, the rains were good, but I assume the snow is even better as it is more like a "time release" formula. From what I've heard, Cali is still so far down, that this won't replenish them back to normal levels.

Subsidence is a big deal in Cali. That's from pumping water out of the ground. I assume it takes a lot of rain/melt a long time to replenish aquifers, and if the water comes hard and fast, I assume a lot or most of it runs out into the ocean instead of soaking in like Cali needs.

I added the bolding. Crazy stuff.

Some of the greatest subsidence in the state occurred in the Long Beach area during the 1940s and 1950s as the result of oil production. By 1951, the rate of subsidence exceeded two feet per year and total subsidence reached as much as 29 feet in the center of the subsidence bowl. In the 1950s, the city of Long Beach determined that water injection would repressure the oil formations and stop the surface subsidence.

Half of all of the subsidence that has occurred in the United States has occurred in California.

The most severely affected areas were in southern and western portions of the San Joaquin Valley as irrigated agriculture expanded. Between 1925 and 1977, land near Mendota sank by nearly 30 feet. By the 1950s a broad area down the west side of the valley to Kettleman City in Kings County sank by up to 25 feet, and on the eastern side of the valley, Tulare and Wasco area farms sank 12 feet. At the extreme southern end of the valley, the ground sank 8 feet. Even in the wetter Sacramento Valley, in the Zamora and Knights Landing areas of Yolo County, the land sank by 4 to 6 feet. Portions of the Antelope Valley near Lancaster, northeast of Los Angeles, have sunk by 6 to 8 feet from 1930, according to USGS.

[gregpark]

Originally Posted by stevej37

^^^
In my 'neck of the woods' we call them snowmobiles or sleds.
A snow machine is used to make snow for the skiers.

But thats Michigan....just sayin.

Up at Sky High some folks have cats to move the family up the un plowed hill. My buddy up there has this model Tucker, one bad ass snow machine