I hate snow

[Kathi]

I skied in about 10" of powder today! It's still coming down. So many skiers out that it wasn't much of a powder day but it made for great conditions.

I loved the Denver blizzard last Christmas, no one from the front range could get to the mtns. We couldn't get home! The mtns didn't get much snow but we had the ski areas to ourselves.

I also loved 60+ days of snow on the ground. I'm formerly from Ohio and had not experienced so much snow for such a long time.

[Sheesh]

I'm job searching this year, and am so hoping that I'll get a great job offer in a warmer climate! I just can't seem to escape the snow...

[Tri Girl]

I hear you, Sheesh. My sister and her husband just got relocated to St. Croix for 3 years. I know- bummer, huh? Ha!! From all she's said, it sounds like living in a dream down there. This time of year makes me long for those warmer, gentler, wind-chill-less climates.

[teigyr]

Seattle doesn't get much snow but I sympathize. Actually it's funny when we DO get snow because everyone freaks out! Including me

When I started work at LAX in Southern California, I lived at 6,000 feet elevation and had a 200 mile a day commute. I was hired in October and due to the fact I was on probation, I couldn't be late. We'd get feet and feet of snow...and due to the fact our road was a dirt road and due to the fact it was steep going up and down the mountain, chains were required for about 10 miles or slightly less.

I remember digging out the car. I remember parking on the highway and carrying my bike over my head out to the car if the dirt road wasn't plowed. I remember wrapping a chain around an axle because I can't put on chains well. I remember falling asleep at night listening to rain and if I didn't hear rain in the middle of the night I'd panic because many times it had turned to snow.

I can relate. It is fatiguing due to shoveling, it's stressful due to driving, and it gives me hypochondriac ulcers Those feelings followed me up here so when we get our bits of snow, I overeact.

I don't know how you snow people do it!

[Aquila]

I hate being cold, too (Want some cheese with that?)

[Tuckervill]

I hear you, Sheesh. My sister and her husband just got relocated to St. Croix for 3 years. I know- bummer, huh? Ha!! From all she's said, it sounds like living in a dream down there. This time of year makes me long for those warmer, gentler, wind-chill-less climates.

Until the hurricane shows up.

Karen

[mtbdarby]

Cheer up girl! We got over 7" this past weekend and woke up to -22F without the windchill yesterday morning - smashing the record. It's WAYYY too early to be breaking cold weather temps here, but what do you do?

Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather - just bad gear

[OakLeaf]

Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather - just bad gear

We-e-e-e-ll, you gotta admit that certain weather is entirely inappropriate to certain sports, no matter how good the gear. Waterskiing with chunks of ice floating on the river, for example... downhill snow skiing with bare muddy patches... almost anything in a lightning storm... or road cycling with ice or salt on the road IMVHO.

But anyway, this seems like a good place to share my discovery a couple of weeks ago that sleet is actually beautiful weather!

I went outside in the sleet to pick some oregano for dinner before it got dark, and I looked at the plant and there was a perfect six-pointed star, maybe 7-8 mm across, made out of sleet. It must've started out life as a snowflake and gone through a few partial thawing/water accretion/freezing cycles on the way down. There it was, a perfect little life lesson, sitting on my oregano

[RoadRaven]

You know... I could probably count on one hand the number of occasions I have been in real, deep snow...

The number of times I have been in real, deep fresh snow - zilch

I know the idea of snow is romantic, and the reality of constant snow is nothing like what it appears on the movies, but this thread is making me a tad wistful - despite all the reality checks in it...

Particularly when I look outside and see the brown grass stubble and wish for a week of rain and cooler days...