HOW IT WORKS:

If you have a cell phone, rubberSNOW is a service you can use to receive accurate snow conditions simply without having to wait for the radio report, busy phone lines or booting-up a computer.   It's all there waiting for you as you want it. Here's how it works:

1. You sign up by customizing the reports, time, snow amount criteria & ski areas you want to receive. (report descriptions below)

2. Your cell phone receives only filtered reports that match your personalized profile.

3. No snow, No messages and never any Wham (Wireless Spam)

When you sign up you have the ability to choose from over 15 million possible report combinations.  No bells or whistles, just a customized text snow reports sent directly to your cell phone.

REPORTS:

New Snow Report -- Get a text alert in the morning when new snow has fallen at any of the mountains you have chosen.  Sample: Sugarloaf: PDR, new:11", base:48-56" ot: 100% lo:5/6.  New Snow Alert includes:

Weekend Conditions (called the Thursday report) --  Every Thursday you will receive a separate text alert for each mountain you have chosen. Sample: Killington: WETSN, base:48-56" ot: 100% lo:9/16. sm: 60%. New Snow Alert includes:

Signing up is simple. It takes only 60 seconds to sign-up.  Membership is totally FREE and you can opt out anytime. Give it a try...

EXTREMELY CUSTOMIZED:

Sign up for the information you want, so that you're in control of the content you receive.  All messages sent to you are personalized to your liking.

Location - Indicate which ski areas you want to receive conditions for.  We have added nearly 500 locations in the United States and Canada. - NEW FOR 2004

Time - Indicate what time of the morning you want each message sent.  For example, you want to receive New Snow Alerts at at 7am, but the Weekend Report at 6pm. -- NEW FOR 2004

New Snow Amount - You can choose how much new snow drops before you get a text message.  For example, In November, you want to receive new alerts only when mountains receive over 5 inches of new snow, but in January you change that to 8 inches.  -- NEW FOR 2004

Signing up is simple. It takes only 60 seconds to sign-up.  Membership is totally FREE and you can opt out anytime. Give it a try...

SURFACE CONDITION:

These standard terms, created by SnoCountry and used by ski areas, can help you prepare for your day on snow.

	Powder	PDR	freshly fallen fluffy snow
	Packed powder	PP	packed by skiers or groomer equipment
	Hard packed	HP	firmly packed, "edgeable" dense snow
	Loose Granular	LSGR	loose "sugar" snow
	Frozen granular	FRGR	frozen "sugar" snow
	Wet packed snow	WETPS	high moisture content, like mashed potatoes
	Wet Granular	WETGR	soft granular snow that is wet from warm temperatures, rain, or humidity
	Spring Conditions	SC	a late season mix of conditions created by sunny or rainy days and above freezing temperatures
	Windblown Snow	WBLN	powder or granular snow blown into drifts in some places, leaving a firmly packed surface
	Corn	CORN	large, loose snow crystals about the size of corn, frozen at night, loose during the day
	Ice	ICY	hard and slippery, glazed or see-through surface, bulletproof
	Variable Conditions	VC	no primary (70% or more) can be determined and a range of surfaces can be found
	Wet Snow	WETSN	powder snow which has become moist and heavy due to a thaw, or rainfall, or fell moist