[Newsbot]

Title: Tourism industry upset about windchill
Category: Environmental
Posted By: bootlegga
Date: 2009-02-12 09:59:47
Canadian

[mtbr]

WTF...only in Ontario

[BartSimpson]

Yah, the wind chill should not be mentioned so we can make more money at the ski lifts and so what if a few people lose their lives over this?

[acidcomplex]

makes a pretty good point though.

[Brenda]

Why?
People are just too f*ckin stupid. Going skiing with -5 temps and full sun might sound nice, but if you have a little bit more wind than 0, you freeze your freakin head off.

[newfette]

where as people here know that if they are gonna go skiing in -25 degrees, theres no skin exposed. you can do anything in any temperature as long as you dress for it

[acidcomplex]

newfette wrote:

where as people here know that if they are gonna go skiing in -25 degrees, theres no skin exposed. you can do anything in any temperature as long as you dress for it

Exactly.

[Brenda]

newfette wrote:

where as people here know that if they are gonna go skiing in -25 degrees, theres no skin exposed. you can do anything in any temperature as long as you dress for it

Read my first (full) sentence... "People are just too f*ckin stupid"

If you don't think it will be -25 (with windchill) and the weather said its only -5...

I live 25 kms from the skimountain, and it is WAY colder up there than it is here. Yet, the weather forecast is not solely based on the mountain...

[coaster_dot]

acidcomplex wrote:

newfette wrote:

where as people here know that if they are gonna go skiing in -25 degrees, theres no skin exposed. you can do anything in any temperature as long as you dress for it

Exactly.

For real...

I went snowboarding when it was -26(C) with high winds. I just wore 2 pairs of gloves, t shirt, sweat shirt, jacket, wool socks, and a full fur hat with the eat flaps (whatever you guys call those), and my helmet....I couldnt move that well but I wasn't cold at all

[newfette]

Quote:

I went snowboarding when it was -26(C) with high winds. I just wore 2 pairs of gloves, t shirt, sweat shirt, jacket, wool socks, and a full fur hat with the eat flaps (whatever you guys call those), and my helmet....I couldnt move that well but I wasn't cold at all

and you had that extra padding for when you fell

[coaster_dot]

The funny thing is though, I didn't fall that day and I even tried the roller coaster rail

But then a week ago when it was 4(C) I went in a t-shirt and jeans and I fell really bad scrapping up my back.

[newfette]

well thats what you get for snowboarding in a t shirt silly

[coaster_dot]

Hey when you experience winter for 3-4 months then you get 4-5(C) it feels like summer!

And summer =

[newfette]

i live in newfoundland winter here lasts 5-6 months depending on how pissed off mother nature is that year. so i know what you mean by 4 degrees being warm. but i'm by no means gonna hurl myself down a hill on a piece of fiberglass wearing a tshirt

[coaster_dot]

Yeah we still have about 1.5 months of winter left

March-May and end of September-October are like "ok...is it even going to be warm today"? Then June-August just fly by.

Upper Wisconsin sucks.