At 01:14 PM 10/21/99 -0500, Chuck Holst wrote: >>> >Was surprised to learn that one can sometimes hear snow falling on >water. Anyone else ever experienced that? >>> > >Snow can be surprisingly noisy. For instance, stop on a packed ski >trail at zero degrees F. and rotate the point of your ski pole in >the packed snow, and listen to the snow squeak like styrofoam. Walk >across that same snow, and listen to it crunch. I always remember hearing that sound and knowing that it was going to be a good day because at that temperature conditions were usually really good. In "spring like" conditions that sound was more of a splash. While Snow can be surprisingly noisy it also can hinder one of the other senses. I was skiing one day at Squaw Valley when there was a combination of dense fog and blizzarding conditions. As I was making may way from the top of one chairlift to another that had a run with a protected bowl I was skiing through an area where the wind was blowing snow over a ridge across the run. At one point there was so much snow that I couldn't see where I was going so I stopped for a bit to wait for the wind to die down. At least I thought I was stopped until I felt myself go over a bump. There was so much snow that *everything* was white so I had no point of reference to tell that I was even moving. I just sat down and waited a minute until I could see the outlines of some trees. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 21 1999 - 13:04:12 PDT
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