snowski/swimmouse
Angel Diva
I left SC at 8:45 Fri AM in my sedan seeing snow after about 35 minutes. I followed and truck with a heavy equipment trailor most of the way and we were blessed with a plow/sander for the 6-7 worst of the mountainous roads, so I got to Sugar fairly easily and was again blessed to get the 2nd parking space from the lodge! The snow was perfect both under my skis and from above while I was there. When the chill factor plummeted, the crowds showed up and the snow blowers were turned on, I went to pick up my slalom skis from tuning at Alpine. I'd just gotten about four inches off my car. While I was in Alpine, about twenty minutes, there appeared about three more inches!!!!! OK, this is serious! So I got under the car and put cables on my two front-wheel drive tires. What else can one do for a SC sedan than only sees real serious snow once every two or three years!!! It took an hour and a half to drive from the foot of Sugar to the foot of Appalachian where we were to race Saturday. There I drove beyond the foot of the Cliffdwellers Inn and turned around to get a running start up the hill and beyond the parking lot.
There I backed down getting a running start again to get up into the parking lot and an actual parking space.
Noone who saw the car later believed I did that (seven or more inches at that point, but it went to 16 inches before the snow was done). I was born in a blizzard and I did take my NY road test at 16 in 8 inches of snow. One of my roommates for the night arrived three hours later and barely made the lot with her 4 wheel drive Jeep. The third roommate's van spent the weeknd at the bottom of the hill on the edge of the highway. We used the Jeep to arrive on time for Saturday's races only to discover that they'd been cancelled early Friday afternoon!!!! 
Whoever heard of cancelling a ski race due to ~too much snow~!!! 
And how come only two clubs didn't get this message!?!?!? GRRRRRRRR I was sooo disappointed because I just knew this was MY weekend on the real white fluffly stuff! :Cry: We did ski both days on great snow with zero lift lines. But it was about 10:30 this morning before there'd been enough digging to get my Buick LaSabre out.
There I backed down getting a running start again to get up into the parking lot and an actual parking space.
Noone who saw the car later believed I did that (seven or more inches at that point, but it went to 16 inches before the snow was done). I was born in a blizzard and I did take my NY road test at 16 in 8 inches of snow. One of my roommates for the night arrived three hours later and barely made the lot with her 4 wheel drive Jeep. The third roommate's van spent the weeknd at the bottom of the hill on the edge of the highway. We used the Jeep to arrive on time for Saturday's races only to discover that they'd been cancelled early Friday afternoon!!!! Whoever heard of cancelling a ski race due to ~too much snow~!!! And how come only two clubs didn't get this message!?!?!? GRRRRRRRR I was sooo disappointed because I just knew this was MY weekend on the real white fluffly stuff! :Cry: We did ski both days on great snow with zero lift lines. But it was about 10:30 this morning before there'd been enough digging to get my Buick LaSabre out.
Consider me one green mouse. We raced at Beech this weekend where it snowed lightly all day Saturday-mostly on quite icy slopes. My sedan did a spin just before the resort entrance but I didn't hit anything-noone around at that early hour. And someone who left before me went off the main Beech Mtn road blocking everyone for awhile at the end of the day. But the 4-5 inches we got really helped everything today. And YAY for the superbowl; NO LIFTLINES!!!
