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Truthful Ski Resort Conditions At Your Fingertips
Ever visit a ski resort’s website, read a report stating they just got 15cm of fresh, only to arrive and discover the number to be greatly exaggerated? Ever want to see what the locals are saying about ski conditions right now? A new iPhone app courtesy of skiresort.com now lets you discover the truth. I stumbled across the app via this article at The Globe and Mail.
The application, which is free, delivers all the basics one would expect from a snow condition app: recent snowfall reports, number of lifts open, temperature, and base depth. But it also contains a live stream of comments and reports from folks on the mountain, as well as live webcams. It’s these last two features I would find extremely valuable. The Whistler report, for example, contains a lot of recent entries from folks saying it’s currently wet (it’s raining) but still very decent. The current conditions on Whistler’s site make no mention of rain.
You can find more details on the app here.
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That’s pretty cool. I’ll check this out on my ipod touch.
Ipod apps are starting to pop up like Gremlins (you know, like Gizmo). It’s gotten a bit out of hand.