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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 2/2/2008, 7:32 am Post subject: Snow and more snow, lots and lots of injuries. |
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There hasn't been a better year for cross country skiing since I moved here. I went to Pole Knoll yesterday afternoon, near perfect conditions, and almost 3 feet of snow on the ground.
Rentals available at the Sweat Shop in Eagar, at the gas station in Alpine and at Sunrise General Store. About $10 per day.
Speaking of Sunrise Ski Area: Downhill skiing and snowboarding can be dangerous! My boss's husband is on the local Volunteer Fire Dept. and has a radio scanner turned on all the time. He doesn't do ambulance runs, but says there are four to five runs PER DAY for our local White Mountain Ambulance Service to Sunrise, which isn't the only service that goes to Sunrise! I asked, types of injuries? He said broken collarbones, broken legs, head injuries, broken arms. Every single day. Think about it. The ambulance goes there (25 miles one way), picks up patient, returns to Springerville Hospital, gets another call, goes back to Sunrise again. All day long. Do you really want to be stuck in Springerville Hospital with a head injury? Waiting for a helicopter to come get you? I didn't think so.
Cross country skiing and snow shoeing are the real wilderness lover's snow sports! |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 2/2/2008, 7:34 am Post subject: |
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Charleston is getting pounded, again, and will be through Monday. It is getting to be as deep as it was 3 years ago when we had record pre-cip. Getting closer to spring I'm sure there is going to be a fantastic bloom this year. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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SkyIslandHiker
Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 186 Location: Sahuarita (Tucson) AZ
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Posted: 2/2/2008, 7:45 am Post subject: |
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Looks like the sky islands of Southern Arizona are in store for some snow (woo-hoo!):
NORTHERN GREENLEE COUNTY-UPPER GILA RIVER VALLEY-
TUCSON METRO/MARANA/GREEN VALLEY-SANTA CRUZ COUNTY-COCHISE COUNTY-
309 AM MST SAT FEB 2 2008
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH
MONDAY AFTERNOON ABOVE 5000 FEET..
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM
WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY
AFTERNOON.
SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE DAY SUNDAY...AND INCREASE
OVERNIGHT INTO MONDAY. SNOW LEVELS WILL START NEAR 8000 FEET
SUNDAY AFTERNOON BEFORE FALLING TO 6000 FEET BY MIDNIGHT AND
ABOUT 4500 FEET MONDAY MORNING. STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 6
TO 12 INCHES ABOVE 5000 FEET AND 12 TO 18 INCHES ABOVE 7000 FEET
ARE ANTICIPATED...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE AT THE
HIGHEST ELEVATIONS. SNOW LEVELS MAY FALL EVEN FARTHER MONDAY AND
MONDAY NIGHT...BUT MOISTURE SHOULD BE DECREASING FROM THE WEST BY
THEN.
Bill _________________ TucsonHikers - Southern Arizona's Hiking Network!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TucsonHikers/ |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 2/2/2008, 7:55 am Post subject: |
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Wow, that's an impressive forecast. Now let's wait and see if the little weather dudes got it right this time! |
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 2/2/2008, 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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I'd love to sit this out at Power's Garden, crank up the stove and watch it come down, worry about getting out sometime, oh, in a week or so. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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