Get Over It (Part Two: Make Hay When The Snow Falls)!

By:  Greg
November 28, 2010 4:47 pm | Category: Quick Update, Skiing

For any new readers we’ve acquired over the last few months from out west, first WELCOME, and second, I don’t want to give off the impression with this “Get Over It!” series that all we do back east is ski grass, white ribbons of death, or worse. No, we do actually get the goods back here. The truth is though sometimes it just doesn’t want to be winter even when our climatology says otherwise. Indeed, the standard deviation of our temperature records is quite high on the east coast. In other words, even if the average temperature for the last week of November is 29 degrees F, that certainly doesn’t exclude the possibility that it’s 59 on Monday, 9 on Tuesday and 29 on Wednesday, all the while maintaining our “average” temperatures. To add insult to injury, this year’s La Nina global weather event seems to want to make our weather’s mood swings even more violent. And that right there is the reason we’re going to be saying “Get Over It” a few times in the weeks ahead. If you don’t make hay when the snow falls (perhaps literally as well as figuratively) you can’t complain; you’ve just got to get over it. Indeed, when the snow fell yesterday, it left more than a tiny bit of snow on the frozen-as-a-rock ground to make for great schuss conditions. Here’s what happened:

Christian started off with a V2 “pow-blem”
Christian on a V2 pow-blem

Some of us “got deep”…. in the grass
getting deep in the grass

Surfing was extant
extant surfing

Popping rollers happened
popping a spread eagle

Levitation occured
leviatation skiing

Oh… and one last thing. Up at the tippy top of the ski runs: Someone left the faceshot machine on.
faceshot machine

More on this wonderful faceshot machine at a later date. For now though it looks like we’ve got some rain coming around the corner. Brace yourselves right coasters! Hope your memories of this past weekend see you through what looks to be a rough week. If you need some reminders that’s what we’re here for.

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11 Comments

  1. cathy
    wrote on November 28th, 2010 at 5:21 pm  
    1

    All this and Thanksgiving dinner too! So much to be thankful for. Schuss on~

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  2. Bill
    wrote on November 28th, 2010 at 7:11 pm  
    2

    donde esta el quatro loco??

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    • K_C
      wrote on November 29th, 2010 at 12:23 pm  
      3

      el quatro loco está en la cara tiro máquina hombre.

    • K_C
      wrote on November 29th, 2010 at 12:27 pm  
      4

      ¡Ay, caramba! el quatro LOKO.

    • christian
      wrote on November 29th, 2010 at 6:21 pm  
      5

      did you find a four loko face shot machine?? vom.

  3. Dwyer
    wrote on November 28th, 2010 at 7:42 pm  
    6

    Thanks for letting us borrow the faceshot machine over in UT. We’ll have it back by mid week, but might need it again next weekend.

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  4. Harvey44
    wrote on November 29th, 2010 at 9:36 am  
    7

    Great pics Greg. The grassy knoll (#2) is a classic. Eastern skiing is what it is, and we love it. That’s the beauty of FIS. Find it and get it.

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  5. powhounddd
    wrote on November 29th, 2010 at 9:24 pm  
    8

    la maquina de los efaceashots es muy choloso
    que superduper!

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  6. ILOVE2SKI (MICKY O)
    wrote on November 30th, 2010 at 6:24 pm  
    9

    Nice update as always. Looking forward to lots of blog updates with the sweet pics as usual. We’ll have to make some turns this winter!

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  7. Beef Wellington III
    wrote on December 2nd, 2010 at 9:33 pm  
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