Help I've messed up

[Charlie Jones]

Although there is this PAR- If we keep showing them how nice it is without it, they'll just come down here. Then the water here will be as crowded as the up north scenes I've seen.

So maybe we should be quiet ;D

Snow and cold are wonderful things- keep enjoying them;D ;D

It's a lovely 72 here now with clear blue skies and a 8 knot wind.

[PAR]

Good point Charlie, but I think the cat's out of the bag anyway.

Tonight will be cold again, but it'll be low 70's tomorrow, mid 70's Friday and back into the low 80's by the first of the week. Maybe I'll go surfing . . .

[Rod Thompson]

Charlie made an important point about humidity.  On the Canadian prairies we like to joke in January that "at least it is a dry cold".  I have camped many times during winter.  Coldest being -52 in the Rocky Mountains.  The coldest night of my life was on a beach on Vancouver Island.  Rats chased us out of a old wooden building onto the beach.  A fog rolled in, soaked our sleeping bags and crept to the bones.  The air temperature was above freezing but the humidity transports heat away from the body. Will take the dry cold any day.

For you sailors who are bad mouthing snow I'm sure that you could empathize with those of us who get a kick out of gliding over sparkling snow with ski's.  Sky so blue it hurts your eyes.  Air pure enough to wake every pore of your body. 

Have R60 in the ceiling of my house Ray.  Grain (Rye) augered into a pellet stove keeps this cottage warm.

[PAR]

Rod, I like to glide over sparkling clear blue 80 degree water on ski's. The current water temperature in the closest ocean beach I'd go to is in the mid 70's, but the gulf is still warm and a lot prettier.

[Ken_Potts]

  Okay, I'm a Southerner who was born in a cold area (Midwest, but not far enough North to be called the North).  My ideal climate would be two weeks of spring, nine months of summer, two weeks of fall and two months of raging Montana winter.  I hate cold but I like to ski and there's nothing more beautiful than the clarity of a winter sky at night.  Sleeping in a snow cave is pretty cool too (and I've actually done that in North Carolina).  The thing that gets me is all the rainy 34 (or worse, 30) degree weather around here in the winter.  That's when I'm at my most miserable.  I've never felt closer to freezing to death than in the South.  I'm certainly not claiming that winter in the South is worse, -25 is -25 no matter what but those ice storms are downright uncomfortable. 

  One day when I'm rich (maybe next year?)  I'll start swapping hemispheres and chasing whatever climate I'm interested in at the moment.

[Rod Thompson]

A market niche Graham could explore is hard-water sailing.  Nothing like scooting across a freshly frozen lake (wait for a couple inches of ice) with clear water below.  Feels as if your flying above the ground.  Actually messes with your sense of balance.

Once winter sets in the trick is to design ski-skates that can handle a mixture of ice and wind swept snow. Come spring there is window for bare ice again.  This time three feet thick with cracks of open water.  Jumping over those is a thrill.  Have done that with a sail board rigged with steel runners.