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Here I was upset it only got knee deep on my lawn instead of waist deep......

Video from the end of the season here. It's best to go TO Vimeo for this.

20" for the SEASON????

Interesting link. We didn't do all that bad here. http://missoulian.co...19bb2963f4.html Whitefish Mountain Resort sees 4th highest number of visitors last winter By TRISTAN SCOTT of the Missoulian| Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:30 pm | 1 Comment Font Size: Default font size Larger font size CRAIG MOORE/GlacierWorld.com Conor O’Neil of Whitefish skis off a rock at Evan’s Heaven at Whitefish Mountain Resort on a bluebird powder day. WHITEFISH – Despite postponing its scheduled opening for a full week due to a lack of snow, Whitefish Mountain Resort closed its season with 294,000 skier visits – the fourth-highest number of visitors in the resort’s history. Riley Polumbus, a spokeswoman at the resort on Big Mountain, said a sluggish start to the winter season meant fewer skier visits in December, but when the snow finally arrived in earnest, so did the skiers and boarders. The total number of winter visitors fell short of last ski season’s banner year, when the resort ushered in a record 318,222 skiers and snowboarders. The mountain has only broken 300,000 visitors twice in its history, according to data compiled by the University of Montana’s Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research. But accumulations of snow in January, February and March of 2012 were even higher than in 2011. The snow piled up to 7 feet in January, while 20 inches of snow fell on Big Mountain in one 24-hour period on Feb. 26 – the most single-day snowfall recorded in years. March had the most days of measurable snow, with 23 days of accumulation totaling 6 feet 3 inches. “The season started out a little scary, but the consistent snowfall was spectacular,” Polumbus said. “We are excited that each season has shown a growing trend and that the average number of skier visits keeps bumping up. Considering that we lost a full week because of the late opening, we can only imagine what the numbers might have looked like with a normal December.” Still, when the resort closed for the season on April 8 the summit had accumulated a total of 303 inches, more than four feet below last year, when a La Niña winter delivered 355 inches. But 294,000 visitors is a figure that sits well above the resort’s five-year average, and Polumbus attributed some of the trending growth to the affordability of lift tickets and ski vacations, as well as to local support of the mountain. Skiers can often purchase a day of skiing and a night of lodging for less than the price of a lift ticket at bigger resorts, and military personnel receive deep discounts off lift tickets. Whitefish Mountain Resort and its namesake town also received several accolades during the 2011-2012 winter season, with Ski Magazine readers ranking the resort in the Top 10 for grooming and scenery. National Geographic named Whitefish one of the world’s 25 best ski towns and then ranked its popular winter carnival one of the top 10 in the world. “We’re quite pleased with this year’s results. Despite a difficult start to the season, the snow and the skiers still came in very good numbers,” Whitefish Mountain Resort President Dan Graves said. “We’re lucky to be positioned in the northern Rockies for consistent year-in and year-out snowfall and certainly we are trending positive over the course of the past several years regarding the number of people visiting.” Read more: http://missoulian.co...l#ixzz1uIgJV94M

Sorry, like I said, I don't understand ANY of what you just said. Don't worry about trying to explain it. Did you ever try to explain tuning or the workings of a PC to your grandmother? This would be the same project. LSD to me is something that comes on a blotter.

Well, I do know the old Audi had a differential lock and this one does not...or at least, I've never found that button (was sort of hidden on the old one) Found this, but don't know what it means... There is more of this garbledygook here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_(four-wheel-drive_system) Not a car person. Auto Repair for Dummies would almost certainly be over-optimistic about its chances of educating me. But, to the main topic, will they work on a truck that is checking fences out on the range? I think so.

So, with these things, I'm guessing that the wheel without power is being turned by the track as it passes over the snow being driven by the other wheel/track set? Is that what you are saying? Or are you implying that they've done SOMETHING to the truck that is non-standard?

You can see it working on a truck in the video... Probably won't work on AWD. I've never heard this one wheel-on-an-axle thing before, but then I'm not a car expert. More about all the complexities of drives here: http://www.motortrend.com/features/consumer/1105_4wd_vs_awd/viewall.html But, for 4WD, there was nothing in that article that I understood to say only one side of the car was getting power. I saw something like that for some AWD cars, but they are not the same as 4 WD. Of course, I barely understood that article.

Did you watch the video? The snow is about 12 inches or more deep around the :50 second to 1:20 mark. So...define your "deep". The clearance is certainly there for deeper, although most of the footage the snow is six inches or less.

In that one, the tracks are on the axle. In mine, you just back the vehicle into the things and they clip on the TIRES. Seems like way less work, plus providing even higher clearance for those really deep days.

Define "bad". Thought you just HAD "bad".

Actually there was 2-3 inches of fresh the day before. Corn snow here (where it is cold at night) is always icy in the AM. However, that particular bowl skied great by midday. Conditions seem to go from ice to perfect corn IF THERE IS NO NEW SNOW. Unfortunately, if we get a skiff of fresh, that stuff is really grabby in the PM. Siblet is nursing badly hurt shoulder due to this phenomenon.

Closing day. Survived the year but almost didn't survive the parking lot. Landed on my head, now sporting a swollen face and two black eyes.

Nice corn snow today.

Today, North Bowl area:

Sun destroys the snow quality. It's short sighted to enjoy the sun, it just softens things during the day (nice) but the sun goes down, stuff freezes into hard ridges that only a groomer can fix. Or a foot of snow. Plus there are a ton of "I only ski when I can see" types on the slopes getting in my way.

People who make a left hand turn from the right hand lane. Just had a guy today, heading down the Ant Hill, ducked into the trees on the left, then came out, cut clear across the slope to exit to another run on the right. NEVER LOOKED UP HILL.

Summit today. Too much sun.

Clearly that person doesn't ski here is all I can say. The only thing in the article I resonate with is people straightlining trails because they clearly couldn't buy a turn with $100 in their pocket. Another of my pet peeves is young teens bursting out of the trees right onto trails without checking the traffic on the trail. I swear that there is a huge learning gap in our PSIA instructors, i.e. the skier's responsibility code.

Good spring conditions today.

Ice Coast special. A skiff of snow over ice. Hold onto your fillings on the ungroomed runs.

This was from last Tuesday. I saw the hexacopter from the chair. You can see my chair mate wave at it at some point.

No blue skies here. Snowed all day. Tomorrow should finally mean off piste is good to go again.

Near as I can tell, he's mentally moving to summer kayaking.