J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Mike from NS

Now I'm getting excited.

Mount Sainte Anne is only about 11 hours away (and mabye closer if I hurry :!:)).

Look here you lucky people in La Belle Province !!

http://www.mont-sainte-anne.com/1/Multimedia/webcam/tabid/310/Default.aspx

Mike :roll:

What an inviting picture :!:

Talk about the message in the medium .... I want to be there :!:

This may very well become my screen's background.

Thanks for showing how nice the fresh snow can really be.

Mike :lol:

Music can certainly ste the mood and sometimes the mood can set the music selection as well.

As Pavel knows, Judy (da wife), and I play music for some ballroom dances. When the dance hits a lull or seems to be dying, one of the best to "wake" up the crowd is Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop". If this works for skiing then ABBA's "Waterloo" will too - this works just as well on the crowd as does "Don't Stop"

So if the skiing is slow and appreciating the freshly fallen snow or freshly groomed trail I prefer melodic tunes like those found on ENYA's CD; "A Day Without Rain". Some of the tunes suit a smooth flow down the hill or a drive though the winding country side on the way to the hill.

When I first began skiing a friend suggested keeping "Tea for Two" going through my mind as a guide to rhythm. Now we Cha Cha to it !!

Another tune that would suit a defenite but graceful flow might be Boyzone's "No Matter What"

It all depends on the mood! Even Lou Bega's "Beauty on the TV Screen" should work!!

So in list form:

Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop"

ABBA's "Waterloo"

ENYA's CD; "A Day Without Rain".
- "Wild Child"
- "Only Time"
- "Flora's Secret"
- "One BY One"

Boyzone's "No Matter What"

Lou Bega's "Beauty on the TV Screen"

Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Angle of Music"

For getting down as fast as possible and with determination these tunes may not suit very well.

Happy dancing down the hills !!

Mike :wink:

Pavel,

I knew my "message" would be loud & clear to you :!:

The background had a few more items but not to take too much space it has been trimmed to this size. It certainly wasn't Pavel's Wall - but it was a meger beginning.

You have taught me well -- thank you!

Yes, I was going for the gestalt thinking and with Sunday River as the goal :!:

Mike :wink:

IceGhost wrote:Oh snap! where about are you? New York

I know... I know :!: ... But I'm not telling :lol:

Mike :roll:

freezywater wrote:
Hated it?? Ye gods man, thank god you had a change of heart, was it like an epiphany??

Exactly -- an epiphany :!:

Mike :roll:

Zorro - aka:frezzywater,

It's not photo shyness - I just don't want to tramatize any little kids that may tune in :mrgreen:

Usually we get about a week of -25C (-10F) during the third week of January and maybe a few other days as cold at any point during the winter. But last winter when the cold came it lasted the better part of four weeks and some nights were as low as -30 or colder. A warm day during that spell was around -15. So when you add the wind chill it felt like about -30 to -35C which is too cold for a fun ski day.

One day a year my wife and I go to the "other" ski hill; and last year it was -25 there before we left home for the 90 minute drive. We questioned any intelligence of the day's plan but it was worth it big time. Good conditions and no people. The cold has some pluses :!: There was little wind and despite the cold it was a good day. Within two weeks we had a huge rain storm and the hill was just about washed away.

On another day my wife was away on business so I decided to go skiing. I wanted to put in a full day with a goal of 50 + runs. At this hill (Martock) it is a 10 minute ride to the top and if you're in a hurry it's only a bit more than a minute back down. This day was one of our colder days at about -20 to -25 with wind. My efforts took me from the first chair at 9 am to 6:45 in the evening without a stop. Up & down...up & down. I did get to 51 runs but it took me the better part of a few days to get over a deep seated chill. The cold was not a pleasant factor that day but neither were all the school kids. We never went skiing when I went through school :cry: School must be fun these days.

Didn't mean to prattle on ... but we had our first snow last night .. so I'm a bit excited... :lol: We have a steep service road at the end of our street and if I could have beaten the kids there this morning, today would have been my first ski day for this year:!: But I cleared the driveway and put the snow tires on the car - missing that first ski day opportunity :oops:

If ... no - when you come to Nova Scotia and plan to ski be mindful the weather is very variable. What is forecast as a snow storm can just as easily turn to a rain storm (and that can go both ways)- all due to the close proximity to the Atlantic. We did get a 90 cm snow storm a couple of years ago that people still speak of as the blizzard of the recent past. Nova Scotia had powder rather than ice :!: :!: Not like the winters before I "found" skiing. There was always lots of snow then and not being into skiing I hated it. Glad I know better now :!: You can indeed teach old dogs new tricks.

Mike :-)

freezywater,

No fake tan here -- heck it's not even from wind burn from charging down a slope somewhere :!:

The red is one of those face masks for skiing in the -25C days when the air is crisp and the windchill makes it a -35C day. This one is made by "Peepers". And I bet my face was just as red due to the heat these thinks keep in.

It's what I use in photos since I'm so camera shy :lol:

Thanks for asking,

Mike :wink: