http://www.powderblog.com/skiing/2009/03/23/snow-reports Powder skiing in the Tetons and beyond. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:55:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.powderblog.com/skiing/2009/03/23/snow-reports/comment-page-1#comment-238 snowman Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:26:16 +0000 http://www.powderblog.com/?p=500#comment-238 My foggy memory doesn't recall ever criticizing a snow reporter. I was just musing about why resorts still have difficulty doing timely and accurate ski reports when procedural failures in this area can cost them lost business. I was out of town that day, but my friend reports that it is highly unlikely that the extra few inches he found at 9 could have fallen in the less than an hour time span between the 8 o'clock update and the 9 o'clock lift opening, but I can't verify that. My foggy memory doesn’t recall ever criticizing a snow reporter. I was just musing about why resorts still have difficulty doing timely and accurate ski reports when procedural failures in this area can cost them lost business.
I was out of town that day, but my friend reports that it is highly unlikely that the extra few inches he found at 9 could have fallen in the less than an hour time span between the 8 o’clock update and the 9 o’clock lift opening, but I can’t verify that.

]]> http://www.powderblog.com/skiing/2009/03/23/snow-reports/comment-page-1#comment-237 Ex Snow reporter Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:38:30 +0000 http://www.powderblog.com/?p=500#comment-237 It was actually snowing up at the ghee the morning of the 23rd---we showed up knowing it was going to be good (after taking our own personal initiative to look at the weather radar) so the additional snow was falling after the 8am snow report. Lighten up guy---and get over it. If you feel content to diss the presumably underpaid snow reporters up at the ghee---you should apply to do the job yourself. I've heard they get bitched at if they over report---so under reporting an inch or two is really not a big deal. Be happy---and get out and ski. Do you really need an excuse to ski??? It was actually snowing up at the ghee the morning of the 23rd—we showed up knowing it was going to be good (after taking our own personal initiative to look at the weather radar) so the additional snow was falling after the 8am snow report. Lighten up guy—and get over it. If you feel content to diss the presumably underpaid snow reporters up at the ghee—you should apply to do the job yourself. I’ve heard they get bitched at if they over report—so under reporting an inch or two is really not a big deal. Be happy—and get out and ski. Do you really need an excuse to ski???

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