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Potentially for not all that much longer though: Great Salt Lake Drying Up/Overuse Similar to when the great lakes freeze over in winter, once the fetch gets too small the lake effect will be over pretty quickly.

Ironically it all started as a requirement for/from the defense department for R&R location. But given the developable land nature and the entire lack of opportunity for development nearly anywhere else in the Wasatch from NIMBY and etc... someone decided to go HUGE with the development. As we...

I looked up a couple of east coast places for comparison. Sunday River claims 10K GPM, Blue Mtn ON claims 14K GPM, and Seven Springs PA claims over 30K GPM in ideal conditions. Shockingly Killington only claims 2.5K GPM! Most ski areas of course don't ever mention GPM and instead talk about...

So the real capacity is 10K GPM. Very large for the western US which is usually in the 2-5K GPM or less range. (The "extra" 5K is actually just pumping half that capacity on the upper part of mountain from the original 10K being pumped uphill from the base). By my counting that is only about 5...

I don't buy the waybthat was written. The number of pumps and separate primary lines headed up the hill as well as power requirements makes that wildly unlikely IMO. While it may be impressive numbers (whatever they actually are) there is no way they can run all 1200 guns simultaneously.

It's always hard to tell for some terrain pods when it is a capacity problem or capacity blessing. eg how many people do you want hitting Corbets in a day? Hobacks skied out in 10 minutes with lots of moguls? Then again, 99% don't even consider going down the signature terrain. I always want...

Meh; The poor, dirt-bag ski bums will still get dramatically more and better ski laps in per hour than the chumps paying for fast passes ever will anyway.

Whoever painted that forgot that they needed to use a copious amount of brown to represent real life conditions on that side of the hill :p

As backed up by Tony's data, why do you think there are/were fire lookout towers built in the various mountain ranges in the Northeast? Primarily due to the inconsistent but occasional very dry summers/falls.

I hadn't even looked till today, but on desktop I was forced to click on the rightmost option several times to get the 'chips' to move and display more options to the right... Eventually giving me the wet bulb option. Not convinced it is accurate. Abasin shows very favorable wet bulb next couple...

Not sure you can get away with it now, but even in grad school living in Buffalo I would cross the border to get a couple cases of certain Canadian beers (once in a while, not every week or something). Go across the bridge, grab a couple cases and then drive right back over the bridge to the US...

Abasin, Copper and Keystone have all run small amounts of snowmaking a couple nights ago. More along the lines of system tests than anything given the tiny amount of snow made. That said, at least overnight snowmaking should begin in earnest sometime in the next week given forecasts. There...

Here are some stats of the insanity from Timberline: Oregon Insurance blog post.

Interesting. I was always told: "If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts it'd be christmas every day!"

Actually Horseheads is too far from either for lake effect and only gets like ~35-40" of snow per year. I know that odd fact from going to Grad school at University at Buffalo and race coaching weekends at Holimont for a few years. For everyone's reference, most years Erie freezes enough...

Lake Erie is so shallow, any decent winter is basically going to shut off the lake effect. And any winter that doesn't freeze the lake is so warm that there is likely very little snow that winter anyway. If I recall one of the differences for Say Holiday Valley vs Peak and Peak is that the...

Spiedie meat in the local grocery store. Map of a small portion of the roughly 100 wineries on the Finger Lakes wine trail. Ridiculously nice weekend for October. Reds aging in white oak barrels.

Did not know this about HKD. I went to school and ski raced in the Mid-Atlantic for 4 years with Seven Springs being a regular on the circuit. At the time I felt that Seven Springs and Wisp Maryland had the 2 most impressive snowmaking systems I had ever seen (even betterthan Hunter). Could...

I've been to the Dr. Konstantin Frank winery before. He was famous for getting any grape to grow well in the area which had never worked out before. The winery was/is most famous for rieslings. Plenty of other wines made in the region now of course but still many other regions that try to...

Don't worry in the short term. Current versions of AI are greatly overhyped relative to it's true capabilities. I have seen exactly nothing that is even in the ballpark of heading toward a 'general AI' so far. Right now it is massive burn of $$ and electricity for very advanced heuristics...