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Originally Posted by Malsua
I'm fair skinned but since I've been living here in Florida, a couple hours in the sun and I don't turn into a lobster. I do that at the Jersey shore and it's over Johnny. The angle definitely makes a difference. I've been able to actually get a healthy skin color since living here but not what anyone would consider a tan.
My worst sunburn ever was a warm spring day at Steamboat. We were skiing in blue jeans and a tee shirt. It was only about 2.5 hours in the afternoon, skiing one of the lifts that goes to the top and about half way down. That evening I burned and blistered so much that the rest of the week, I wore a tee-shirt on my head, face poked out the neck hole, sleeves tied together. Not any exposed skin. The sun angle and less atmosphere to space(~10,000 ASL) was brutal to me. Reflective snow probably didn't help either.
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Steamboat is a great place, or at least was back in the mid-70's. I worked there building condo's one summer with some guys who were total ski bums (worked all summer, skied all winter) and fearless nutcases. I was roped in to driving the truck behind them one full-moon night, giving them some extra light - while they skateboarded down Rabbit Ears!! With one foot on the brake and one on the gas, after being told to stay as close as possible to them (knowing if one fell, I would run over him). I did it once only and told them that they were crazy and never again! LOL