Citrus Growers Forum

gregn · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:26 am

Our local ski hill- www.grousemountain.com has extended is ski season through June to July 1st. A bit of a publicity stunt - but I guess if you have the snow, you mine as well open up a chairlift for some die hard skiers. Hard to believe, in 2010 we had to truck in snow for some of the Olympic events. There is still so much snow on our local mountains hills that there is no chance of a water shortage this summer here
Laughing

Last year , during the Olympics, NBC hosted the today show at "the peak of Vancouver"

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Gregn, citrus enthusiast. North Vancouver Canada. USDA zone 8. I grow In-ground citrus, Palms and bananas. Also have container citrus

Millet · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:27 am

This year the snow level in Colorado is 210 percent above normal. However, Colorado normally has skiing through the month of June. Actually, in some cases people could ski longer, but as the warm summer weather comes, people have other things they would rather do, so the ski slopes close do to the lack of eough interest. - Millet (588-)

gregn · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:19 pm

Millet, Whistler offers skiing right through the summer too - in the high alpine and on their glaciers. The the strange thing with Grouse Mountain is that its peak is at 4100 ft or about 1244 meters. The plateau is about 3500' which is only 3000 ' higher than where I live. We received virtually no snow - yet at the top of the local mountains the snowfall for the year approached 30 feet or 10 meters....

Have you watched any of the Stanley Cup Finals? This city is going crazy - IF the Canucks win the Stanley Cup it will be seen as a greatest event even more than when Canada beat the United States , in Overtime, to win Olympic Gold last February.
Cheers, Greg

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Gregn, citrus enthusiast. North Vancouver Canada. USDA zone 8. I grow In-ground citrus, Palms and bananas. Also have container citrus

Millet · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:15 pm

Greg, I have watched every single game toward winning the cup. Our sorry Avalanche team did not even come close to making the playoffs for the second year (and that is almost impossible in hockey). I have been rooting for Vancouver a team in our division, to win the cup.
By the way Colorado's Trail Ridge Road, the highest continuous highway in the United States. near Estes Park Colorado, opened today for traffic. It took almost a month to clear the road of snow. During June when you drive the road the snow is anywhere from 20 to 50 feet high on the side of the road. - Millet (587-)

Go Vancouver!!!

Selkirk · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:13 am

Snow and skiing in June!!! Y'all are killing us Houston TX folks, by talking like that.

Hit 105 degrees here on Sunday and again today. Records both days, we are burning up down here.

Selkirk