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The Death of Winter?

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#2 ·
I'm in the Midwest and this weather has just sucked. We got real cold then a 68* day followed by rain, an entire resort of blown snow had disappeared. My local resort is still not fully open and not looking good for the week leading into Christmas break as well. A huge revenue generator that week when all the kids are off. I can actually visualize a 2 month riding season if this doesn't change soon. SAD!!!!!
 
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Less snow sucks, however there is opportunity...such as a dh bike trails or disc golf. So ya all that are having a sucky winter, perhaps get some folks togather and start building trails and getting the hill owners to see there are other options....perhaps even bigger ones with longer seasons. I ran into a friend who is also in his 50's and recently did a disc golf tournament at crystal; he noted that folks were launching disc 1500+ feet on a single throw. And the kids are doing crazy stuff dh here in pnw...which looks abit too gnarly for me, but I recall more mellow stuff in the midwest with dirt/loam that would be a blast. Anyway no affliations but...


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I was dating a guy who was a former meterologist and now does climate research for NASA (I live right by a NASA hub, cute guys but ALL freaks) He kept telling me that there will be no more snowboarding in 20 years and all sorts of other nasty things that are awaiting our future here on earth.


aaaaaaaaaand I had to dump him because I couldn't take the doom and gloom he was always spouting off about. :blink:

Ill just move to antarctica or AK when that happens.
 
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Plan B: In 15 years, build giant friggin domes around all the ski resorts in the Rocky Mountains, cool the insides, have some kind of artificial climate control that will hopefully be invented by then to make it dump snow, open for business ALL YEAR LONG. The people who run the resorts and own the land should make enough money to cover the construction and materials costs in the first year of operation. They should be completed in about 5 years, which is why I say start in 15 years.

It sounds perfect, we just need more engineering students today and we should be able to pull it off. I'm pretty sure that with the desire to go snowboarding again, people will also volunteer to help in the construction process. The government might also support it because being able to have the winter sports industry operational all year could be a way to stimulate the economy; with more people paying the taxes on tickets, food, and products. They wouldn't need to increase the taxes, because a shit load more people would be paying the same taxes all year round. Everybody wins.
 
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No more snowboarding in 20 years?

Damn. Better teach my future kids how to skateboard, then.
 
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Snowboarding isn't going extinct in 20 years, you'll just have to drive further north :laugh:

The one thing I'm interested in though is what melted icecaps will do to the current oceanic-atmospheric currents. Oceanic salinity plays interesting roles in weather patterns, and injecting that much freshwater into the system is going to change something.

The Day After Tomorrow movie is very loosely based off of scientific hypothesis of the above scenario.^
 
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