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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: net.rec.ski
Subject: Re: summer skiing
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 04:19:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 29 04:19:30 1985
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> Can anyone recommend a good place to ski this summer, sometime between May
> and June?

Well, if you go to the Portland Usenix meeting in June you can ski Mt. Hood.
I skied from the summit after walking up in the moonlight on my birthday
several years ago.  It was the day after a Pascal Standards committee meeting
in Portland.  We should probably make a skiing contingent [U*nix].  You'll
get lots of letters from Tek and Intel on this I bet.

You have to be real careful skiing on glaciers, especially late season.
This is when crevices open up (May on).  In 1979, I was skiing, un roped
with four glaciologists when I fell into a crevice.  Fortunately,
the angle was such that one ski fell in and the other was downhill.
I swore the crevice was 30 feet deep.  Next day, I skied by, it was
only 15 feet deep! [shrunk a lot that night! :-)]  The Mt Hood ski area
has the advantage that it is a permanent snow field rather than a
glacier.  Also, the US ski team trains here.

You may ask, why ski unroped-- none of us expected crevices, it was mid winter.
You should have seen the expression on my friends' faces: knowing this
was their livelihood.

Canada does not really have much glacier ski except the heliski services
like CMH.  Again, use care.  Europe: try around Zermatt, I hear.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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