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No pics (it was low vis most of the day anyway) but I figure folks might want a quick report. The storm brought more snow sooner than expected, leaving ~26" at Main by 2am last night. Woke up today to bluebird, but a quick check of the radar warned that the clear sky wouldn't last long...

I would argue that it is contrary to the spirit of the Olympic games to grant exclusive television rights to any entity in the first place. The games should be easily viewable live and for free by anyone.

I'm considering Baldy on Sunday since mammoth for the weekend feels like a waste with fri/sat being storm days. Hopefully the storm comes in cold enough to snow to the parking lot on Friday, I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure.

The year I lived there, I happened to be in Utah and Canada during most of the major storms.

:-s But yes, the last two days have been extremely good here. Yesterday, I saw two people drop the big rock under the lift on 22, then 3 hours later it was filled in enough that a 3rd hit it in the same spot. Today was even better, with more overnight snow and less wind in the afternoon. 22...

The unhappy poor people are all dead or displaced to other states?

Not as much as you might think. As standards of living rise, population growth falls. Essentially all first-world nations are at zero or negative growth right now. Japan is at negative growth (to the point that it is possibly a problem for them), western Europe is neutral or negative. The US...

But the criticism of Fox News is more than just the usual media hype and pundit idiocy that makes up the bread and butter of Daily Show fodder. He rails on everyone for the general circus-act nature of cable news, but Fox seems to have a special talent for graphics "mistakes" and other...

Late to the game and minor nitpick: I'd have to check my old notes to be sure, but I seem to remember that the majority of "clean coal" technology focused on reducing particulate pollution and nitrous oxides, as opposed to CO/CO2. So it's "cleaner" in the sense that it reduces local...

FYI the embedded player gets chopped by your tables (at least for me in Chrome).

one word: Marte.

Of course a 9" deficit in base depth isn't significant when you're talking about a base of 6 feet, but when the base is on the order of 18-27", surely 9" is significant then isn't it? That's 33-50% less snow.

So instead of saying "there's enough snow for back country but not lift-served skiing" he should have said "there's enough snow for back country but not enought at the base for list-served"? And instead of saying "there's not much October snow left" he should have said "there's not much October...

On the statements in question: -Little october snow is left This is a logical extension from the delayed opening. The (obvious) assertion is that if most of that snow was still there, then there would be no need to delay opening. This can be refuted by claiming that the October snow would not...

How's he changing the frame of reference? The statement was "Utah is definitely below average at the moment.," and he's referencing.... the historical average. "Total hogwash" is a strong statement. Tony's claims are all reasonable conclusions to draw from the fact that Alta is delaying...

You know, Friday's game starts at 1, if we left straight from there we'd be leaving town around 5...

this is... pretty much the opposite of what the El Niño pattern predicts for the west. :-k

Denver is the default starting point because Simon lives there thus that's where the car is. If we wanted to drive from SLC, someone would have to drive Denver->SLC (or Tahoe->SLC or LA->SLC) anyway, or we'd have to all fly and rent a car which isn't really worth it.

To get back to new trip planning, here's what's been on the burner lately. Being on a semester schedule this year, my Christmas break is extremely long. First day of classes for spring semester is Wednesday January 20th. I have a friend at school in Boulder on a similar schedule, and a third...

"wait, what attitude?" "ohhhhh. that one."