The Pow Clause (cf. Article 10. Section 8: Clause 4.)

By:  Greg
December 17, 2011 12:22 pm | Category: Quick Update, Skiing

Every non-skiing plan made during the winter months requires a “Pow Clause,” which, if you have never heard of such a thing before, governs the amount of snow that must fall from the sky so as to render said non-skiing plan null and void, thereby allowing all interested parties opportunity to schuss. Every non-skiing plan has a different priority level, is agreed upon by a different group of schussers, and so naturally every Pow Clause is different. Today for instance, our weather man Lionel Hutz is moving, and requires the assistance of the Eastern Bureau of FIS to move “the heavy things.” This non-skiing plan was supposed to involve us all meeting this morning to load a truck, drive it across town, and then unload the truck at a new place. There was of course a Pow Clause; today it happened to be “4 inches” (AKA Clause 4). After yesterday’s upslope event came up short when temperatures were unwilling to drop fast enough, we thought for sure the Pow Clause would be off the proverbial table. To our surprise and delight however, at 5:30am this morning we awoke to the unmistakable sound of pow brushing against the window, and reports of at least 3″ on the mountain. With it still snowing steadily, we executed the Pow Clause and decided to schuss rather than move, assuming 4″ would materialize by the time we got to the top of the mountain. Hey, it was no VTah VI, but it didn’t take any mental gymnastics to “get over it.” This was a nice surprise!

The skiing up high on the mountain started off kinda foggy:
foggy start

But as we descended, the fog broke up, and we were able to open it up a little bit. Something tells me Lionel Hutz was stoked to be making a schuss rather than a move!
schussing is greater than moving... ALWAYS

Kristin harvested some pow turns in the corner.
Kristin making some pow turns on the sides

Why have a Pow Clause? Look at this picture. I rest my case your honor.
I rest my case

Four laps later (and a few more inches), and we were ready to terminate the Pow Clause, return to reality, and move some “heavy things” for Lionel.
ready to move some heavy things.

Hope you executed a Pow Clause of your own and got sum! See you soon! Thanks for ready FIS.

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10 Comments

  1. Josh A
    wrote on December 17th, 2011 at 12:59 pm  
    1

    guess I shoulda gotten myself out of bed this morning

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    • Steve W
      wrote on December 17th, 2011 at 2:05 pm  
      2

      +1

  2. powhounddd
    wrote on December 17th, 2011 at 3:42 pm  
    3

    Right on!!! Good for you guys to get out there. We took the sun in the city and had a less-wintery groove…

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  3. rangerjake
    wrote on December 17th, 2011 at 11:18 pm  
    4

    So glad you made use of that fluff. It was just tormenting me on Elephant’s Head. But I knew you kids were gittin sum. Way to strike while the mercury was actually cold.

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  4. Willie
    wrote on December 18th, 2011 at 9:44 am  
    5

    Where was that? Stowe?

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  5. Williebikes
    wrote on December 18th, 2011 at 9:46 am  
    6

    Is that Stowe or jay?

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  6. icelanticskier
    wrote on December 18th, 2011 at 2:56 pm  
  7. Anonymous
    wrote on December 18th, 2011 at 8:34 pm  
    8

    Looks like Mt. Ellen to me: lower FIS

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  8. BGood
    wrote on December 28th, 2011 at 9:57 am  
    9

    I’ve got a similar clause for windsurfing imbedded in all my contracts, that I execute every time the wind is above 20 knots. You guessed right, it’s called the 20KNTS Clause.

    I’ve been building summer cottages in the Magdalene Islands for the past few years and this clause is mandatory in such a windy location, being surrounded by oceans on all sides with 360km of beaches available to put the Clause in use.

    Here are some images from my summer work surroundings :

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  9. BGood
    wrote on December 28th, 2011 at 9:57 am  
    10

    I’ve got a similar clause for windsurfing imbedded in all my contracts, that I execute every time the wind is above 20 knots. You guessed right, it’s called the 20KNTS Clause.

    I’ve been building summer cottages in the Magdalene Islands for the past few years and this clause is mandatory in such a windy location, being surrounded by oceans on all sides with 360km of beaches available to put the Clause in use.

    Here are some images from my summer work surroundings : http://www.flickr.com/groups/iles-de-la-madeleine_art_nature/pool/page13/

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