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Yes, we paid $417pp roundtrip to Bangkok in 2016 on China Southern, with layovers in its Guangzhou (Canton) hub.

I heard a rumor that originally Season 3 was going to be in a ski resort. FYI Mike White as a former graduate was the commencement speaker for my son Adam's Polytechnic School graduation in 2003.

Yes, welcome to the late 1970's/early 1980's.

Often, when the stock market falls, the money goes into bonds. This time investors wanted no part of bonds with the inflation fears, so both bond and stock prices were crashing at the same time.

The best way to store skis is in a hotel. Even if you are staying at the hotel on just one end of the trip, they will normally store your skis for multiple days while you are doing non-ski activities. My recollections: Lima 2007 while we were in Cusco and hiking the Inca Trail before skiing...

I would expect Deer Valley to be complete slop in the current weather.

Yes, it's Trump's obsession with trade deficits. That chart with list of countries and two percentages, the second one (half of the first one) being Trump's tariff rate? The misleading implication is that the first number is the other country's tariff rate. That first number is actually the...

Weather Thursday was a rerun of Wednesday. The town of Mammoth Lakes was warmer, topping 70F. On the mountain seemed similar as there was more of a breeze in the afternoon and there was still an overnight freeze with the clear skies. After Wednesday it was easy to time the sunny areas...

I knew the Convict Lake road turnoff was opposite the airport, which is also visible in my link. But an examination of Google Maps shows Convict Lake behind the small ridge that is behind the unnamed lake (red arrow) in the picture.

Supposedly it was the bond market and ensuing alarms from the Treasury Dept. It's not a surprise that the bond market would view the tariffs as inflationary. There is also dissent from Elon Musk:

Weather is full on spring this week, but with the clear skies there was still an overnight freeze. So like most spring days at Mammoth we could find pleasant snow conditions as long as our legs could hold out. We got on the hill 9AM, met Elissa and skied was partially softening Stump Alley...

This was the point I highlighted. The bindings were pre-releasing on test/setup runs. It's one thing to blow off parental warnings (I had an overprotective mother, whom you can imagine I ignored countless times). But obviously the bindings are critical and his two buddies warned him not to...

We saw Dead and Company at the Sphere last May; That seemed a logical act for a state-of-the-art light show. Liz spent some time there on her first eclipse tour, which was to Turkey in August 1999. I was supposed to port call there on a Mediterranean cruise in June 2004, but the port call was...

That's for a specific piece of terrain. It's often easy to get pleasant conditions all day long by being in the right places at the right times. Hopefully we will demonstrate that the next two days at Mammoth.

This was not unlike the difference between April 3 and 4 at Mammoth. From much experience I can confidently say the culprit was wind. When first day powder is churned but not skied enough to get packed down, it can get stiffened overnight by wind. That was my observation on Climax. Dave's Run...

:eusa-clap: :eusa-clap: :eusa-clap: We now have conclusive proof than JimK is aging more gracefully than I am. I can reminisce about the times I was comfortable hiking and skiing Baldy, the first time being in 1990 after driving the night before from SoCal. 3/13/2007 with Ben and Stefan...

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 the Dubai Fountain, the jets being mounted in the pool structure showing just above our heads. It is the world's largest choreographed fountain, with some...

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 and 20% in the afternoon. Wind prediction was 10 with gusts to 20. The morning was 90% overcast and afternoon about half. The wind forecast was about right...