Melbourne snow
Submitted: Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:16
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Well I took my liitle girl to Mt BawBaw on Saturday for her first experience of snow and she had a ball, didn't want to leave. The weather was great and the place was pretty empty, kind of like having your own private ski resort. Sunday went for a drive from
Walhalla up Mt Useful (no snow) and then up to Mt Skene. The day was quite warm (quite different from when I camped up there the other week) and there is still good snow up on Mt Skene at the moment althought the warm weather is going to play havoc with it now. Still amazed at all these vehicles that fit chains and then dig themselves nice holes to get stuck in when if you treat it like sand and air right down and be careful with the loud pedal you just go for a nice drive. Anyway had a blast and looking forward to some good snow driving again next year.
Reply By: Member - glenno (QLD) - Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:23
Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:23
Im 40 years
young and still havnt seen the snow . LOL
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Follow Up By: Member - Jack - Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 16:47
Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 16:47
I'm 59 years
young and don't care if I never see snow - give me the tropics any time, and I will look at the snow on postcards ...LOL
Jack
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Follow Up By: cj - Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 21:38
Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 21:38
I love the tropics but snow is cool too.
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Reply By: Tim (VIC) - Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 13:08
Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 13:08
The snow is great in a car but If you go skiing it is like sitting in a freezer tearing up $50- notes
Cheers
Tim
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Follow Up By: Utemad - Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 13:30
Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 13:30
Sure it's not cheap but skiing is great. I went sking in the June/July school holidays (I'm a uni student & wife is a teacher so no choice in timing). Being Brisbanites we discovered it was cheaper to go for a week in
Queenstown NZ than it was to go to the Oz skifields. Go figure!
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Reply By: DARREN - Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 17:18
Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 17:18
Cj, , homework for next year, What psi do you go down to on the snow?
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Follow Up By: cj - Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 21:37
Monday, Sep 20, 2004 at 21:37
I'm running 31x10.5R15's on a LWB Vitara with a road pressure of 20psi and I dropped them down to 12psi for the snow. I could probably go further but haven't needed to. The psi for you will be dependant on your tyre size and vehicle weight. Think sand driving as a comparison. I feel that chains are really best suited to icy roads to break through the ice. In softer snow aired down tyres seem to work fine and I've watched people fitting chains and getting stuck pretty quickly as they just seem to dig down instead of driving along on the snow. This might be fine if the snow is shallow but if it is deep you will just end up stuck on your diffs. Please keep in mind these are just my ravings in relation to my limited experience and what I found works
well for me.
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