It's turned cold over here too. Let's hope Steve has the first decent snowfall of the year to play on. Would have been a shame to go over to Franace for a bit of boarding to find only grass.
My house over there is in the north of the Lot and last January I arrived for a couple of weeks working trip, first job go and collect and install wood burner and flue, woke up the next morning to 1/2 metre of snow, trailer almost invisible and my Trooper very snowed in. No wood burner for me, fortunately it went very quickly unlike the year before when it hung around for weeks and was excruciatingly cold hitting -16C one night. MInd you, my house is about 2000m above sea level in the foothills of the Massif Central and about an hours drive from Aurillac, officially the coldest place in France!
I was talking to a friend who lives near my house in France last night, apparently it hit -21C one night last week, I thought it was cold two years ago when it hit -16C, I can't begin to imagine what -21 feels like!
It snowed virtually all week in Tignes, with almost 2 feet over night! Not much you can do when it's like that other than strap some planks of wood on your feet & throw yourself down a hill!!
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Oh, and it hit -22C without windchill factor - buurrrr!
I've been in northern Finnland when it has hit -56 with a six hour power cut. the hotel must have had some kind of backup system as I never noticed from inside. It was overnight so I did not go out.
They must have had one hell of a genny! and -56 don't bear thinking about; I had double layer thermals on, body armour, helmet - you name it! & I still froze my n**s off on that chair lift!!:eek:
The things we do for pleasure!
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It's quite possible the hotel kept a lot of the heat, a large building would do that. In Finnland it is also the dry cold that I associate with Canada. Nowhere near as damp as ours and not getting through to your bones, it will still get you so it is more dangerous in that way.
That's very true. I was in Whistler (British Columbia, Canada) a few years ago & the bottom station temperature was -25C, probably -35C 1500M above that & -40 to -45C with wind chill factor, and it felt OK. Any exposed skin was ******** but didn't feel at all cold with all the gear on; as you say, it's the damp cold that gets yer. Still, wouldn't want to be exposed to those temperatures for any length of time without the correct gear!:eek:
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Whistler is some place to be. I am very familiar with Banff, lake louise and Canmore. Lake Louise gets an average of 12 ft. of snow in a year, Whistler gets 29. Only trouble is you are pretty much tied to Whistler. From Banff etc visiting the others is easy and Calgary is less than two hours.
Whistler is special. Never seen snow like it & I like the Canadians. I was lucky enough to be staying with a friend who emigrated there so digs were free. (I'll keep that quid a week on the lottery!!)
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