What will cause your ski season to end

[bojans]

Just as it says, what will cause you to stop skiing for the year

[bojans]

A little of weather and fatigue for me. Plus the shirking daylight makes week night skiing difficult.

[Fam-man]

Cool fall and less daylight means we are losing water temperature fast. Would love to keep going but eventually have to say enough is enough.

[oldjeep]

Cracked rib and some torn muscles have kept me from skiing for the last month. Seems like the weather is going to shut me down before I get a chance to ski again.

[h2onhk]

Weather is usually what drives us out, but just to keep pushing the envelope we created a little competition a few years back with some other folks on the river. The semi-annual FiLo Crown is awarded to the last guy/gal on the water in the fall and the first guy/gal out on the water in the spring. Any means of water skiing is allowed and the only rule is no wetsuit or drysuit. Life jacket and swim trunks only. Winner gets a certificate and the fashion rights to wear the great big fuzzy purple crown until the next season. The banter gets better and better the later it gets in the season. Lots of fun. :)

 

 

 

[Than_Bogan]

As a few others have already mentioned, daylight is one of the biggest factors.

 

When the time change happens, we're done for sure.

 

But we usually wrap up just a little before that, because once all the leaves go off the trees, the conditions in early November tend to be pretty awful. Sometimes in October we can get great water conditions, so it's worth racing out of work and throwing on the drysuit. But when you add poor water conditions to the freezing temperatures and short days, it's time to pack it in.

 

Most years we make it to the last weekend before Halloween.

[Bill22]

@h2o.nhk that sounds like a fun competition but with the no wetsuits rule, I am out for sure! I can't stand to be cold in the water.

[BrennanKMN]

I try to ski pretty late in the season, but once October hits the skiing diminishes quickly. Daylight and water/air temps keep me waiting for only the best days.

If I lived on a lake and didn't have 30 min of trailering each way I suspect I'd ski much later.

[bojans]

@h2o.nhk does the winner have to actually get in the water? We used to ride jumpers, do a dock start and ski back and sit on the dock.

[BraceMaker]

One boat pulled already.

 

Have played the winterized on lift . Usually end with pulling boat in gailforce wind

[h2onhk]

@bojans, not necessarily, but most of the docks are out of the water by then so it kind of forces the issue or requires you to get real creative. ;)

[Zoro957]

We are starting to run out of water depth, so that will likely end my season up north, but heading to my new place in Orlando for winter time skiing after that!!!

[jetpilotg4]

Never stop skiing in S Florida

[keithh2oskier]

Once the rains start our lake will get low enough so that you can no longer ski. By then its just no longer fun.

[Wish]

Switching between skis and boot systems..geeez that will mess ya up.

[UWSkier]

2015 ended 6 days before ice-in for us. 2016 started two days after ice-out. If the lake never froze, the short days would force our hands.

[ScottScott]

NONE OF THE ABOVE...... As stated before, ski season doesn't end in florida. Hell, I didn't even use a wetsuit last year.

[lpskier]

If you have the right gear, it's never too cold. Until the lake freezes. Historically, we ski daily until the Columbus Day tournament at Trophy, then call it a season. A couple weeks will pass by and a nice day comes along and we are back to skiing the nice days at lunch until the lake freezes. Nowadays, Trophy isn't having tournaments and I'm spending winters down south, so after the LaPount Ski Park tournaments October 22 and 23, I ski until I'm too beaten up and then take a month's rest.

[Nando]

Darkness- water and air temperatures are a consideration, but up on the tundra the end of the work day will be getting too close to the end of daylight pretty soon, so it'll be the occasional weekday session with a bit of weekend skiing before long.

[jedgell]

Had our second child Wednesday so I'm done for the year. Most of the year has been a let down anyway, both ski partners out most of the season due to injuries.

Looking forward to 2017!

[Porkfight]

Drought.

[Orlando76]

In Orlando we have endless summer but come March and April when the Yankees venture out when the ice thaws, we get blown in with heavy wind.

[Glydon]

Once the time change hit , dawn patrols and sunset sesh are no longer an option ... time to move onto the snowmobiles!

[RazorRoss3]

I'm a polar bear living in Texas, the season has no end.

 

Oh, and I'm single and in my 20s.

[skialex]

It doesn't end where I leave either!

Maybe for 2-3 weeks in February when it is void windy and rainy.

"Leave your myth in Greece" B)

[ozski]

Queensland Australia = comfortable skiing 12 months of the year. We seem to get better conditions through winter if anything.

[MillerTime38]

Yeah where the option for it doesn't?

[gregy]

Looks like knee surgery soon but last we didn't miss a week without skiing.

[kingshredd]

Nor Cal. Will eventually get cold and run out of light for weekday afternoons, and the elbow and I.T. Band are starting to yell at me more every day! But, I got some Cal Pro Am finals to go watch tomorrow and back at it on Sunday! So forget that stopping talk for now

[Glock]

You also forgot an injury tab. Tore up my should last weekend, season is done. At least it's toward the end of my season, but man I was skiing good. Best season so far.

[gsm_peter]

Boat will freeze when no longer used daily.

Nights with freezing start in October or November.

It is to dark to see the boies even in the middle of the day....

This year club plans are to stop late November...

However I can only ski weekends if wind are OK.

[GaryWilkinson]

ACL tear while free skiing at -35 to get a rhythm.

Oh well, better now than in June!

[Nautibynature]

Hunting Season is already in, right now it's dove, September goose and teal so I'm still skiing, but not as much. Once deer and duck season come in that's all she wrote till February.

[ForrestGump]

A titanium bar and 7 titanium screws.

[bishop8950]

Partly temp, mostly tired of driving 3hr round trips to ski.

[mopowpow]

Temps, too much wind, and gross algae.

[Lovell]

Ruptured Achilles ended it sadly on July 20.

[ToddF]

I can't remember if rod noise from engine was an option :'(

[foxriverat]

52 degrees right now should be 56 in an hour when I ski. Probably have another month. Already signed up for fall winter hockey league.

[MISkier]

I'll probably stop mid-October with regular sets. The club boat will be out of the water about then. We can use our own boats, but the shrinking daylight hours eventually make the after-work weeknight sets nearly impossible. Weekends start to fill up with home projects and other stuff.

 

We will freeze over by late December or early January, but that is not the initial thing that stops us.

[Greg Banish]

90 degree displaced Medial Malleolus (inside ankle) Fracture. At least it happened in the course. Two screws and surgery later, I should at least be swimming again in a couple weeks.

 

[PatM]

After being out for 11 weeks this year I am trying to extend my season as long as possible. Unfortunately up in Massachusetts that is usually mid October at best. It gets to cold to be fun or productive. Not to mention the glare you get at that time of the fall.

[slvrbulit]

Weather, I guess that's what you would call it. The lack of rain this summer has dried up the local lake so much that It's to hard and worrisome trying to lunch the boat at the boat ramp.

[sixball]

I go north for dear hunting so I pull my boat early Nov. just cant take the chance of freezing before we get back. In Michigan its hard to go much into mid or late Nov. Been in as early as March 17.

[Rivvy]

Ice

[shyskier]

The boat ramp gets closed mid Oct.

[VONMAN]

Nothing, moved from Michigan to Florida. Retired now and loving it!

[oldjeep]

Definitely be weather now. 1st time skiing in 7 weeks since I cracked the rib. Was windy, choppy and I skied poorly but the body was fine. Was funny to see everyone in heater shirts and short suits already. Water is a little brisk the first time but refreshing every time after.

[ALPJr]

Friends winterize their boats

[oldjeep]

@ALPJr I must be doing this all backwards ;). 5 friend and family boats to winterize next month.