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:eusa-clap: :eusa-clap: :eusa-clap: We now have conclusive proof than JimK is aging more gracefully than I am. I can reminisce about...

At Burj Khalifa they take your picture in front of a blank screen, then insert it over an entertaining background., The view down is to...

Sad indeed. What jumped out at me was that this:

My thoughts exactly. Even if Collins is overrun at opening bell it usually settles down to a reasonable wait after an hour or two.

Weather forecasting is usually good for storms, but not so much for wind and cloud cover. Today was predicted 50% cloud in the morning...

The Sierra storm this week was first predicted to last most of the week, but when it was revised to wrap up by Wednesday we decided to...

Even though he lives there, IIRC James learned to ski in Colorado and not that much of his lifetime skiing is in the Northeast. Surely...

My first reaction was "south facing?" but James' link provides more context. The key upper lift is east facing, and the overall ski day...

I read comments like those tseeb saw, made about Phoenix a lot. Great Basin/desert environments seem extra sensitive to urban heat...

This linked article was the surprising one to me. Santa Barbara County, the main subject of the article, is similar. I have...

I wonder why Fraser went there when he's been posting all season about how threadbare the lower elevations are. Exposure is not great...

The end-of-day run down to La Daille was fairly close, mostly about the ice skating rink surface, but the number of bodies was a major...

Perhaps not as slow as the warmup at Obergurgl we had two years ago. A vast majority of west facing in spring can be a detriment as...

It's called the Gulf Stream. One of the doomsday climate scenarios is that melting continental ice shuts down the Gulf Stream...

Yes, predictability is worth something. I'm infamous in certain quarters for my critique of Jackson's snow preservation and...