Magic Numbers all skiers should know!

ellistine wrote:

We seldom take advantage of the features of where we live. It is the same here

I've seen very little of the UK. I've never been East of London nor North of the Lake Districts. Last summer I bought a new Cabrio car so at some point I want to do a summer time tour of the UK. The trouble is I end up using all my Holiday during the winter (for obvious reasons). I currently have 4 out of my 26 days of Holiday left that need to last me until 31st of December!

When do you leave for Cornwall

Tomorrow 7am :thumbdown: - a bit too early for me.

Have a great drive !

I should have mentioned... also with the 1994 trip ... just as we were getting on the plane in Halifax my brother passed me a video camera and asked we get some footage of the TVR sports car plant in Blackpool - for his local motorsport TV program. We did request a tour and were treated royally.

I see they have been taken over and may still be in trouble. They were really nice cars.

Drive carefully - on the wrong side of the road for us North Ameriicans
:wink:

Mike

temperature at the top of the mountain?
sun's strengh (UV%)?
parking lot number?
can't wait to hear the answer. i'm really intrigued.

agusl wrote:temperature at the top of the mountain?
sun's strengh (UV%)?
parking lot number?
can't wait to hear the answer. i'm really intrigued.

Intrigued !! That's true for sure ... but are you enjoying the sleepless nights Agusl ??? That is the true sign of a "player" in the Great Pavel Springtime Quizz !!!

Mike :D

Dshenberger;

I must appoligize ... I have just reviewed the replies to this great (but puzzelling) quizz and I noticed you suggested the time to buy the skis may be one of the numbers as related by month. After your reply I included the same thing in one of my replies. (4 = April) as the best time to buy the skis as a money saving aspect. I didn't mean to "crowd" your number.

Mike :?

Haha! No worries Mike! :)

My newest idea. . . The number of years I think I can wait to buy a new pair of skis!

How many scratches are on my skis?? :P

I think we should all work together, and come up with a test for Pavel!!

Dshenberger wrote:Haha! No worries Mike! :)

I think we should all work together, and come up with a test for Pavel!!

Now there's a good idea... but we would be hard up to come up with as good a prize. I wonder if Pavel might remember the magical number of the hurricane which destroyed PPP in Halifax a couple of years ago? But this is too easy for the quizz master, himself.


I'm becoming so distracted that my daily work is falling behind ... :roll:

I have to confess I have finally done the google search ... has anyone else?

There are so many magic numbers out there that this quizz could be the quizz to end all quizzes.

For Example: Sunday River (as all resorts) have a magic number in temperature which signals to turn on the snow guns, the number of turns the legs can take before a rest is considered a "magic" number, 20 is thought to be the magic mumber for the number of times to run Birkebeiner to calim "membership" in an elite club, 74 mph is a magic number when speaking of hurricanes ... and the list goes on and on .

So what exactly numbers make the skis "magical"? That is the question.

The ski length and specifications as related to the skier and conditions make them magical.

How the ski is tuned and maintained make them magical.

The cost of the ski certainly must add to the magic and therefore the time to purchase brings about this magic.

The entire skiing experience is magical and is enhanced by the magical ski.

But "its all about the ski".

So let's try to put the numbers into these thoughts.

165 = ski length and 11 meters= ski turning radius

-5C= the temperature which I like when we "allow" the skis to run magically with the suitable waxes for the conditions for the ski base type.

0 degrees base bevel and 2 side bevel for solid grip.

20 the magic number of turns the ski let's us enjoy (depending on terrain and our ability).

And, again 4= April ... the best time to buy and save $$$ for the magical experience.

But I expect I will have a headache from banging my forehead as Pavel suggests, when the answer is revealed. It will be simpler than any of our answers so far.
We are thinking too far within "the box" but at the same time I've spiralled so far away from the target !!!

Ahhh, what frustration ... no, no , I mean what fun !!!

MIke

:( :wink:

I must congratulate both Ellistine and Mike for single handedly keeping this forum going through the dreary summer months!!! Sorry - you too Pavel! I must admit to being completly stumped, although at 165 the skis in question would be too short anyway, so good luck to both, being completly un-biased i would have to say; "come on ellistine!" sorry Mike but must support the home boy! By the way for someone who claims to be 1/4 welsh your countrymen would be aghast to hear you placing Chester in Wales, close but definately ENGLAND. Lovely place though, typical english cathedrl city (think York or Canterbury).

freezywater wrote:I must congratulate both Ellistine and Mike for single handedly keeping this forum going through the dreary summer months!!! Sorry - you too Pavel! I must admit to being completly stumped, although at 165 the skis in question would be too short anyway, so good luck to both, being completly un-biased i would have to say; "come on ellistine!" sorry Mike but must support the home boy! By the way for someone who claims to be 1/4 welsh your countrymen would be aghast to hear you placing Chester in Wales, close but definately ENGLAND. Lovely place though, typical english cathedrl city (think York or Canterbury).

You mean all these years I had thought I had visited Wales ... and I only got close :?: :!: Now I'm gobsmaked :( Must look up the tour company and send them an email saying "... on your bike!" :evil: tha'll get'em. How close? Maybe they parked the bus in Wales and we crossed the boarder into England! A friend's husband is from Wales. I must get her to ask him how close I was!!!

On the second trip we took the tour to Canterbury and we even "donated" to 2p or whatever it was for the pleasure of climbing all those steps in the tower for the great view from the roof. Well at least we saw the roof!.

165 is a good length for lively and snappy turns - as their prmo literature states. And if you didn't cheer on the native son - he might come and get you !

But, I hope you are spending sleepless night just the same -- the only way to fully "enjoy" Pavel's quizz!

Mike :wink: