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| iced dogwood |
After a brilliant snow storm that gave us such nice skiing snow, we had a thaw. The thaw was long enough to get a few skates in, looked like the runners were happy to have open pavement.
After the thaw, freezing rain, snow sleet, more freezing rain and then......a nice white coat of snow. about 1 inch of thick powder. So the ground is encased in ice....over which is a thin veneer of snow.
I am realizing that this is becoming a kalamazoo weather blog. Fine tuning your fun exploration to the prevailing conditions though.....has some merit.
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| yeh, i was a little crabby. Over my right shoulder is the hill that brought me to Angell field in the first place. The "face" was all sledded up, but i still found some powdered sugar freshies. |
Thinking that I would like to get a little more skiing in this winter i went down to Angell Field and toured around. The climbs were an exercise in busting through the ice...the downs were alternatively powdery...powdered sugar over ice which led to big slide turns and straight up ice....which required pointing the skis down and hanging on.
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| it is all elevens until i initiate the turn and then it is a slide turn...not the curvaceous" S" but a thick " J "of a line. |
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