Recent content by jamesdeluxe

According to the map, it appears that half of the western Cats snowfall is lake effect-related? Look at the bullseye on West Virginia.

The film industry: stolen from West Orange, NJ like the Dodgers were pilfered from Brooklyn. https://www.nj.gov/nj/about/arts/movies.shtml

Very sad. I remember it in high school around 1980. Good beer and the logo was iconic. The fact that it came across the country from San Francisco made the brand seem a bit exotic back then. Along with Montreal-based Moosehead (founded in 1867), those were first microbrews I ever tried.

Harvey and Jason have posted or linked to NOAA radar maps of those Lake Ontario streamers on NY Ski Forum over the years. The western Catskills claim is up there with "the 2020 election was rigged." Former Admin mentioning lake effect in 2004 with the map below: not west coast atmospheric-river...

I may have exaggerated how limited my beer palate is, although I'm certainly not a connoisseur of Sbooker's or Tseeb's level. I tend to prefer stout during the cold months and wheat, hefeweizen, Belgian blonde, and lagers during the warm months. The writer of the article describes my general...

I moved the discussion about how we manage ski relationships with spouses and significant others to a separate thread.

Mine won't go away. Two different job offers in the Alps in the early/mid 2010s that I wasn't able to act on due to family responsibilities here. :icon-mad:

This NY Times article nails several points that have soured me on the craft wave: IPA overload, annoying adjectives (hazy, dank, etc.), dumb names, and silly graphics. The truth is, the craft beer boom got ahead of itself — bloated on branding, locked in an arms race of hops, and distracted by...

Good grief: 6.3 inches of rain! I know that it depends on humidity, ambient temp, etc. but isn't the general snow/rain ratio at 10:1? Apropos the title of this thread: that would've gotten Wolf Creek open...

So that means the ADKs have two ski areas that average approx. 80 inches these days. Wow, that ain't much. New York Ski Blog has good coverage of both over the years, including: Harv's report from Hickory in January 2024. Here's an article after it joined Indy Pass; however, it's opened very...

I like the composition of that Pitztal photo. I asked a bot which ski areas in the Alps bank snow from the previous season. As in virtually all advances in ski area operations, they're well ahead of North America in this area too. Interesting about the part in red: * * * Multiple ski areas in...

We've discussed this technology before; however, I didn't know that it had a proprietary brand name: https://snowbrains.com/snow-secure-a-pioneer-in-large-scale-snow-storage-and-snowfarming-solutions-named-to-time-best-inventions-2025/

Also home to this! https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-deadliest-spider-in-the-world-ends-lives-in-hours-but-its-venom-may-inspire-medical-miracles-48107?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

If I'm not mistaken, Snowshoe appropriated that helpful feature from the British "Where To Ski and Snowboard Worldwide" series (I hadn't seen it elsewhere). The map below is Les Arcs from the 2013 edition. I wonder why they didn't continue the map captions with their transition to books on...

I'm partial to my father's version. The ending has a certain poetry.