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  1. EMSC

    Powder Mountain, UT: Feb. 19-26, 2013 (from the old Epicski forum)

    The road is also nearly entirely in the bottom of a 'canyon'/creek drainage so almost no exposure to drop offs, cliffs, etc... So more narrower valley but more LCC or BCC-ish with risk being slipping into other traffic at 30-40 mph. Or maybe I'm just used to Eldora Shelf Road, Loveland and...
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    U.S. Presidency #47

    There is one problem in that sentence. Democrats still have no idea how and I'm pretty sure simply don't want anything resembling Orderly when it comes to immigration. And of course Trump/current republicans want nothing to do with anything resembling Humane or Comprehensive when it comes to...
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    Wasatch Interconnect

    Building true real world infrastructure is not even in the ballpark of building some software and maybe an anonymous data center in an industrial area. He thinks very highly of himself though just like the 20 somethings that had bought Powder Mtn before selling to Reid Hoffman after much failed...
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    LA Fires: Jan 2025

    Wait, an English professor is pretending to be definitive about weather/science attributions to fires? And claiming to know the science of toxins in the air, soils, etc... That's interesting at least and more potentially a big red flag. Especially for the NYT. I thought they were all about only...
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    Pandemic Disney World, FL, Aug. 21, 27, 2020

    I also am glad to be done with Disney. I took my son to each of the parks about 4 years a part, the 2nd one being World in fall of 2019. Of course that only happened because my wife had a conference at one of the Disney hotels so her plane ride and the room were free as it were. That made the...
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    Fire threatens Tamarack, ID again ...

    ?? It's less than 2/3 of a mile to the lake edge from the lift. That's quite short in the scheme of pipelines. But it sounds like they have no water rights for any water that is in the lake and thus have to pump it from a well. Many ski areas have much, much longer pipelines to their water...
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    Fire threatens Tamarack, ID again ...

    Their insurance might try to help some, but it's unrealistic for the most part. You have an entire cities worth of infrastructure scattered all across the mountain in typically rather rugged terrain. It's far too much to try to protect the whole place with a small crew which is what insurance...
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    Lobster Rolls

    Much of the south and oddly the UK over the pond is a seemingly endless pile of brown and tan foods with few veggies or exceptions anywhere in sight (at least when eating out at local focused food joints).
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    Golf

    Now that's a break. My full break was only about 15 years. But I also had a stretch of another almost 10 years where I only did one or two charity golf events per year. Just restarted 2 years ago and have only managed a small handful of driving range and rounds per year. My game is both short...
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    All About The Ivy League

    @Sbooker , US News and World Report is the college ranking publication everyone uses and also loves to hate... they put Dartmouth at #15 in the US. US College rankings @ChrisC , Felt odd for you to randomly mention my undergrad school in your listings of only a dozen or so top schools in the...
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    U.S. Dialect Map

    Interesting. I have never heard that term ever used in New England states myself. Though I obviously never lived directly in NE either. I can say that there is zero use of said term anywhere in upstate NY though. In fact I never heard that such a term even existed for a water fountain until I...
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    U.S. Dialect Map

    But did your family of 5 order Sheet Pizza's from there on occasional weekends or for parties? Semi-staple order if we ever got Pizza (pickup only, no deliveries back in the day) They are the typical Pudgies greasy and also HUGE. "Sheet 26"x18" 32 Slices" or rarely the combo meal "Sheet...
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    U.S. Dialect Map

    I've seen variations of this quiz in several publications and internet sites over the decades. For reference I grew up calling it "Soda Pop" along the southern edge of CNY which not even an option in the quiz. Was confusing when I moved to Atlanta where all of that type of substance is called...
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    LA Fires: Jan 2025

    Especially clear it's revenge since it always hits the US mid-west and east while those parts of Canada are having good air quality. ;) I forget again, what was it that Canada supposedly did that was far worse than Mexico (since Mexico has a lower tariff rate)?
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    Lobster Rolls

    That sounds a lot like Charlie Chaplin's famous line: "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member." Don't worry all I eat is lobster and Bon-bons 24/7 :p. No Speedies? (granted more Binghamton-ish than Syracuse, but regionally important to CNY food scene).
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    Oz/NZ 2025

    Meh, Try +21c at 2pm followed by -26c by 5am the next morning without ever travelling any distance at all (a few trees died from that one). Or +23C at noon followed by snow and -5c by 3pm (and absolutely howling winds bringing the cold front in). I even have a screen shot somewhere showing...
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    U.S. Presidency #47

    They did? I don't recall anything from Kamala other than "Exact same as sleepy Joe but without the sleepiness". Not all that much of a platform IMO (especially when espoused in a typical word salad jumble). Disagree. Trump repeatedly made various campaign promises as the months went along...
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    Lobster Rolls

    Can confirm that going rate. I just spent much of July back east in basically all of the New England states and upstate NY. That it was. I also mostly dislike Mayo or at least the way it is used in the US. I like it fine as a small volume combiner to help say chicken, tuna, potato salad hang...
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    Oregon's Insurance Crisis

    Invalidated based on current Oregon laws/constitutional amendments. Trial lawyers Association(s) are likely throwing large sums at lobbyists to prevent the legislature from passing any new laws or putting state amendments on the ballot to legalize changes helpful for recreation industry in any...
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    Oregon's Insurance Crisis

    Operates in literally every state in the US with a ski area, except Oregon as of now. The trial lawyers in that state must have a supersize amount of cash flowing through lobbyists or something. I remember reading about this topic about 2 months ago and figured something would get resolved, but...
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