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Any reports from yesterday ? Coming up tonight for 4 days


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Scott talked to Hotrod today and he was able to groom the Renshaw trail decently last night because temps had dropped -5! About 12" of ridable snow, bluebird today!! Call the house when you get in, Jason and Gord want to hookup tomorrow! Higgs.
 

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Thanks Higgins. Will talk to the boys Sounds like it was pretty set up top with the cool down. Will provide an update for all tomorrow


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came down later yesterday from renshaw, trail is back to being very good. one more groom and will be excellent. snow has set-up a bit from the warm weather and now the cold but guys were finding some good stuff in the back. watch yourself on the steep stuff as there was some reports of avy activity, not large but still a sign of some unstable conditions out there.
 

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Some of our regular riding group has rode McBride the last couple days and report things have hardened right up!! Bluebird sky though! And trails back to excellent!

Oh, i also hear Gm3d was doing his best superman impersonation up on Belle!! LOL.
 
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Hey Higgy. Seams like ya got the full report! Gotta entertain the boys ya know! I was pretty hard, but still had some fun riding with Hot Rod, Jay and Guntter!! The Ol' Dogg had to come back to the truck with leftover fuel! No that is a sad day for sure!

Snowing hard here now and dispite sore musclse ad snow, e e gonna wander up and check out the cabn at Rehshaw and hang out(Doesn't look like ridin to be done with low vis!)

As usal, we are deing treat like royalty. Staying at Leona's sure set the bar HIGH!

Wil keep ya posted on the rest of the weeend!

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Dogg and Gm3d
 

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If we're gonna get that technical, it's spelled "slough".

[h=1]slough[SUP]1[/SUP][/h]
[slou for 1, 2, 4; sloo for 3] /slaʊ for 1, 2, 4; slu for 3/
Spell Syllables



noun 1. an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region.

2. a hole full of mire, as in a road.

3. Also, slew, slue. Northern U.S. and Canadian. a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater, or the like.

4. a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.


Origin Expand

Middle English


Old English



900

before 900; Middle English; Old English slōh; cognate with Middle Low German slōch, Middle High German sluoche ditch




[h=2]slough[SUP]2[/SUP][/h]

[sluhf] /slʌf/
Spell Syllables

noun 1. the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.

2. Pathology. a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.

3. anything that is shed or cast off.

4. Cards. a discard.

verb (used without object) 5. to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake.

6. to cast off a slough.

7. Pathology. to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough.

8. Cards. to discard a card or cards.

verb (used with object) 9. to dispose or get rid of; cast (often followed by off): to slough off a bad habit.


10. to shed as or like a slough.

11. Cards. to discard (cards).

Verb phrases 12. slough over, to treat as slight or trivial: to slough over a friend's mistake.



Expand
Also, sluff.



Origin Expand
1250-1300; Middle English slughe, slouh skin of a snake; cognate with German Schlauch skin, bag


Related forms Expand
sloughiness, noun
sloughy, adjective
unsloughed, adjective
unsloughing, adjective



Synonyms Expand
6. molt.





Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2015.

Examples from the web for slough Expand

  • Farther down, the doctors rummage under the slough of intestines as though through a poorly organized toolbox.
  • Cells that slough into the bloodstream can take hold at distant sites-and a metastasis is born.
  • It is far too complicated, automatically guarantees a slough of litigation and despond, and has minimal effect on college quality.
  • And even when it is time to slough that skin, after years of service, it does not come off easily.
  • They find the buck in a backwater slough thrashing around in six feet of water, having broken through the ice.
  • Eventually a red giant's gas envelope will slough off entirely, leaving behind a dense stellar corpse known as a white dwarf.
  • The hillsides often slough away draining the ponds into the surrounding watershed.
  • Fortunately, there's more than one way to slough off a layer of skin.
  • With ovarian cancer, metastasis occurs when cells slough off the primary tumor and float free in the abdominal cavity.
  • Our brains slough this ability away as a butterfly sheds its pupal skin.
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British Dictionary definitions for slough Expand
[h=2]slough[SUP]1[/SUP][/h]
/slaʊ/

noun
1. a hollow filled with mud; bog

2. (US & Canadian) ( sluː)
  • (in the prairies) a large hole where water collects or the water in such a hole
  • (in the northwest) a sluggish side channel of a river
  • (on the Pacific coast) a marshy saltwater inlet


3. despair or degradation



Derived Forms
sloughy, adjective


Word Origin
Old English slōh; related to Middle High German sluoche ditch, Swedish slaga swamp





[h=2]slough[SUP]2[/SUP][/h]
/slʌf/

noun
1.any outer covering that is shed, such as the dead outer layer of the skin of a snake, the cellular debris in a wound, etc

2.(bridge) Also sluff. a discarded card


verb
3.(often foll by off) to shed (a skin, etc) or (of a skin, etc) to be shed

4.(bridge) Also sluff. to discard (a card or cards)



Derived Forms
sloughy, adjective


Word Origin
C13: of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German slū husk, German Schlauch hose, Norwegian slō fleshy part of a horn





[h=2]Slough[/h]
/slaʊ/

noun
1.an industrial town in SE central England, in Slough unitary authority, Berkshire; food products, high-tech industries. Pop: 126 276 (2001)

2.a unitary authority in SE central England, in Berkshire. Pop: 118 800 (2003 est). Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles)






Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for slough Expand
n. "muddy place," Old English sloh "soft, muddy ground," of uncertain origin. Cf. Middle Low German sloch "muddy place," Middle High German sluoche "ditch." Figurative use (e.g. of moral sunkenness or Bunyan's "Slough of Despond," 1678) attested from mid-13c.

"cast-off skin" (of a snake or other animal), early 14c., slughe, slouh, probably related to Old Saxon sluk "skin of a snake," Middle High German sluch "snakeskin, wineskin," Middle Low German slu "husk, peel, skin," German Schlauch "wineskin;" from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE root *sleug- "to glide."

v. "to cast off" (as the skin of a snake or other animal), 1720, originally of diseased tissue, from Middle English noun slough "shed skin of a snake" (see slough (n.)). Related: Sloughed ; sloughing.




Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

slough in Medicine Expand
slough (slŭf)
n.
A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, a sore, or an inflammation. v. [FONT=arial,sans-serif][SIZE=-1]sloughed[/SIZE][/FONT], [FONT=arial,sans-serif][SIZE=-1]slough·ing[/SIZE][/FONT], [FONT=arial,sans-serif][SIZE=-1]sloughs[/SIZE][/FONT]
To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

slough in Science Expand
slough
(slŭf)
Noun The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or an amphibian.

Verb To shed an outer layer of skin.

The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.

Slang definitions & phrases for slough Expand
[h=3]slot[/h]noun A slot machine; : The slots are going day and night (1950+)


The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.
Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers.
 

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slough[SUP]1[/SUP]


[slou for 1, 2, 4; sloo for 3] /slaʊ for 1, 2, 4; slu for 3/
Spell Syllables



noun 1. an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region.

2. a hole full of mire, as in a road.

3. Also, slew, slue. Northern U.S. and Canadian. a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater, or the like.

4. a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.


Origin Expand

Middle English


Old English



900

before 900; Middle English; Old English slōh; cognate with Middle Low German slōch, Middle High German sluoche ditch




slough[SUP]2[/SUP]



[sluhf] /slʌf/
Spell Syllables

noun 1. the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.

2. Pathology. a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.

3. anything that is shed or cast off.

4. Cards. a discard.

verb (used without object) 5. to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake.

6. to cast off a slough.

7. Pathology. to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough.

8. Cards. to discard a card or cards.

verb (used with object) 9. to dispose or get rid of; cast (often followed by off): to slough off a bad habit.


10. to shed as or like a slough.

11. Cards. to discard (cards).

Verb phrases 12. slough over, to treat as slight or trivial: to slough over a friend's mistake.



Expand
Also, sluff.



Origin Expand
1250-1300; Middle English slughe, slouh skin of a snake; cognate with German Schlauch skin, bag


Related forms Expand
sloughiness, noun
sloughy, adjective
unsloughed, adjective
unsloughing, adjective



Synonyms Expand
6. molt.





Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2015.

Examples from the web for slough Expand

  • Farther down, the doctors rummage under the slough of intestines as though through a poorly organized toolbox.
  • Cells that slough into the bloodstream can take hold at distant sites-and a metastasis is born.
  • It is far too complicated, automatically guarantees a slough of litigation and despond, and has minimal effect on college quality.
  • And even when it is time to slough that skin, after years of service, it does not come off easily.
  • They find the buck in a backwater slough thrashing around in six feet of water, having broken through the ice.
  • Eventually a red giant's gas envelope will slough off entirely, leaving behind a dense stellar corpse known as a white dwarf.
  • The hillsides often slough away draining the ponds into the surrounding watershed.
  • Fortunately, there's more than one way to slough off a layer of skin.
  • With ovarian cancer, metastasis occurs when cells slough off the primary tumor and float free in the abdominal cavity.
  • Our brains slough this ability away as a butterfly sheds its pupal skin.
Expand


British Dictionary definitions for slough Expand
slough[SUP]1[/SUP]


/slaʊ/

noun
1. a hollow filled with mud; bog

2. (US & Canadian) ( sluː)
  • (in the prairies) a large hole where water collects or the water in such a hole
  • (in the northwest) a sluggish side channel of a river
  • (on the Pacific coast) a marshy saltwater inlet


3. despair or degradation



Derived Forms
sloughy, adjective


Word Origin
Old English slōh; related to Middle High German sluoche ditch, Swedish slaga swamp





slough[SUP]2[/SUP]


/slʌf/

noun
1.any outer covering that is shed, such as the dead outer layer of the skin of a snake, the cellular debris in a wound, etc

2.(bridge) Also sluff. a discarded card


verb
3.(often foll by off) to shed (a skin, etc) or (of a skin, etc) to be shed

4.(bridge) Also sluff. to discard (a card or cards)



Derived Forms
sloughy, adjective


Word Origin
C13: of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German slū husk, German Schlauch hose, Norwegian slō fleshy part of a horn





Slough


/slaʊ/

noun
1.an industrial town in SE central England, in Slough unitary authority, Berkshire; food products, high-tech industries. Pop: 126 276 (2001)

2.a unitary authority in SE central England, in Berkshire. Pop: 118 800 (2003 est). Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles)






Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for slough Expand
n. "muddy place," Old English sloh "soft, muddy ground," of uncertain origin. Cf. Middle Low German sloch "muddy place," Middle High German sluoche "ditch." Figurative use (e.g. of moral sunkenness or Bunyan's "Slough of Despond," 1678) attested from mid-13c.

"cast-off skin" (of a snake or other animal), early 14c., slughe, slouh, probably related to Old Saxon sluk "skin of a snake," Middle High German sluch "snakeskin, wineskin," Middle Low German slu "husk, peel, skin," German Schlauch "wineskin;" from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE root *sleug- "to glide."

v. "to cast off" (as the skin of a snake or other animal), 1720, originally of diseased tissue, from Middle English noun slough "shed skin of a snake" (see slough (n.)). Related: Sloughed ; sloughing.




Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

slough in Medicine Expand
slough (slŭf)
n.
A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, a sore, or an inflammation. v. [SIZE=-1]sloughed[/SIZE], [SIZE=-1]slough·ing[/SIZE], [SIZE=-1]sloughs[/SIZE]
To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

slough in Science Expand
slough
(slŭf)
Noun The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or an amphibian.

Verb To shed an outer layer of skin.

The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.

Slang definitions & phrases for slough Expand
slot

noun A slot machine; : The slots are going day and night (1950+)


The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.
Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers.
 

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Less of an English course please, and more pictures. Haha. Is there a place a guy can check area maps? Haven't been into dore for a few years and want to make sure there's no area closures back there.
 

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Well.......can't argue that explanation!!!!!! LMAO!

Dore Rivers, get a hold of Barry (BBToys), he's got all the info on that area! The good stuffs closed!
 
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Well, another day of riding in the books! Snowing pretty good up top on Renshaw. Lot of the gang just hanging at newly reno'd cabin. Looks great. Hoping it just keeps dumping overnight. We checked out Higgy's heavenly honey holes and they were hammered! Need more snow!

Back at Leona's B@B. The Dogg and I are so full. Great meal topped off with home made lemon meringue pie. May need wheelbarow to bed Simply awesome!

RCMP were doing roadsde checks on the way back to town. Were VERY reasonable to deal with! Be sure your stuff is straped down and you leave the drinkin till your parked for the night!

Cheers!
 

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Rode renshaw as well yesterday first ones up a nicely groomed trail, good job on the cabin. Took a quick peak but did hang there at all. Snowed hard for the most part all day an into the night. We were able to find some good snow that wasn't tracked. Just got up and peaked out window and I see clear sky's that or I'm still half asleep. As well mentioned above RCMP check stop great guy excellent to deal with.
 
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