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Correct - Manhattan is technically New York County. Queens is Queens County. Brooklyn is Kings County (go figure). I forget what the Bronx and Staten Island (Richmond County?) are, not that they'd show up on one of these lists.

Right - as opposed to every single one of your posts, where people are lining up to create RSS feeds so they don't miss a word. Was that really necessary?

That's fair, but let's take that thought exercise a little further. Gestalt is equivalent to "vibe", yes? If one were to visit Vail, Whistler, or any of the nearly identical, purpose-built base villages at places like Northstar, Squaw, Mammoth, Stratton, Aspen Highlands, Copper, Keystone...

Is that as true this year with the expansion terrain served by the new lift? Won't be true for long if WW continues with its development plan. I view their respective sidecountry areas as a wash - both provide easy access to excellent sidecountry funneling either directly to the base, or with...

Mt Baldy road can definitely be sketchy when you get those storms with the snow levels falling after a frontal passage. That said, I would argue that it's as much, if not more, from the other drivers as it is the conditions themselves. The switchbacks aren't too bad when there's no one in...

Yup. The scale here for what people consider "bad roads" is a lot different from what I'm used to back East. Went up to June Mtn this weekend and was desperate to leave early given all the dire predictions on road conditions with such low snow levels. Though I hit snow at exactly 5000' on the...

I like your goody room. How was the hitchhiking back up?

Tony - I'm sorry for your loss. It's difficult to lose a friend of 16 years. I hope that both you and Samantha can find peace going forward. As for MH, I pretty much agree with every thing you wrote, with a few small caveats re: Sawmill Canyon. The canyon floor actually runs NNE to SSW...

Not to get way OT, but attendance is really only a small part of the equation. What really matters for the NHL is two things: 1) Having a modern arena in place where you can generate significant revenues from luxury boxes and premium seating. This generally requires a large corporate base in...

"Ski Manitoba" doesn't exactly conjure up images of snow capped peaks. Reminds me of a poster in my high school science teacher's office: Ski Terre Haute.

Truth. I have no plans to return to Baldy until and unless they get something on the order of 18-24". That should be enough to provide sufficient covereage for the thin parts of Thunder while re-opening Ch 4. Until then, you're pretty much constrained to the groomers and a few, sheltered...

This is a good point. Where is the closest lodging?

A few thoughts: 1) The FTO article says the Alyeska is on the Kenai Peninsula. Is that true? I thought the peninsula is everything south of Turnagain Arm while Girdwood/Alyeska is to the north of it on the mainland. 2) From a location/access standpoint, this really isn't all that bad...

But there's the problem - most fun is in the eye of the beholder. It's entirely subjective. Based on your comments, it doesn't appear as though you got a lot of exposure to the best of what VT had to offer, so it's not necessarily fair to make judgments with so little info. The stuff out...

I thought his picture was taken from above the bottom of ch 1 at Baldy, WAY over on lookers' right above that little cliff area. On the far side of the canyon below, I can see the exit of Eric's with that little road/traverse that continues on up the far wall of that canyon. Did I just...

Have to agree with Tony here. Admin and I spent a few days in Jackson in March of an El Nino year. It hadn't snowed in a while and, while there were some spots of soft snow up in the North facing Bivouac Woods area, most of the rest of the mtn was refrozen or melted out/undermined garbage...

Correct. I guess I was confused. I thought Shifty was doubting that the terrain in question was accessed by the gondola. Maybe he was just confused b/c the pics from the TR I linked to weren't consistent with his memory of what the gondola looked like, so he doubted the veracity of my claim...

Keep on drinking your Kool-Aid. Need more ice for your sore hips?

As rfarren said, it's really not all that. I'm a relatively out of shape flatlander, and for me it's just a 20-30 minute hike up to the Chin from the gondi and then a gravity traverse(with occasional interesting turns and bushwacking) from there down into Hellbrook and environs. For someone...

If you're bitching about getting a booboo on your hip from ice in the New England, and you couldn't tell where that TR took place then, by definition, you don't know where to go. Joke's on you.