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From: jans@orca.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.rec.ski
Subject: Re: Skiing New England - relying on Mother Nature
Message-ID: <1807@orca.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 11:58:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: orca.1807
Posted: Tue Oct  8 11:58:05 1985
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References: <1273@ihlpg.UUCP> <159@cadsys.UUCP> <868@lll-crg.UUCP> <134@codas.UUCP>
Reply-To: jans@orca.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Distribution: net.rec.ski
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

In article <134@codas.UUCP> mikel@codas.UUCP (Mikel Manitius) writes:
>> And to make it worse, they don't make snow for us poor xc-types.
>
>Ah, but they do make snow for X/C Skiers at Mt. VanHovenburg near
>Lake Placid, NY, they did it for the 1980 Winter Olympics, and they
>still do once in a while, although usually only for competitions, but
>if you go the week after competitions, it's great!
>
Yeah, great compared to mud skiing, but not much else!  I worked at the
`80 games, and had plenty of man-made-snow xc skiing.  Lippo's Loop, the
beginners' trail that has about 5 feet of elevation change over 3k was
so fast...  At first, I thought, "Gee, this is great!" but as I came to
the "hill" and realized that the "snow" I was on was hard as a rock and
there were real rocks just off the edge of the snow, I quickly lost my
nerve.

Man-made-snow (a.k.a. chopped ice) for xc is only really good at warmer,
slower temperatures, or as a base for some natural snow.  Given a choice
of cold m-m-s or ice skating, well, let's just say use the proper tools
and enjoy the frozen lakes!
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