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I was reading a NYT article about the importance of how you ask Generative Artificial Intelligence for any kind of feedback. If you don't want to read the whole piece, here are summaries of the three recommendations: Ask “for a friend.” Present your questions or opinions as someone else’s...

Based on a search, I appear to be the FTOer who's always had a bee in his proverbial bonnet about industrial ski tourism, going back to my 2008 rant. More than a decade later, Tony brought up my use of the term "industrial ski area" (which I borrowed from the German-speakers on Alpinforum). From...

Since our son is leaving in nine days to attend a school in Scarsdale NY, we went yesterday on our annual September ride in the gorgeous Shawangunks 65 miles north of us. My Minnewaska reports are all pretty similar, for example this classic from 17 years ago. It's like listening to a...

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Given what this article claims, can we assume that a gulf stream collapse would be good news for ski areas in Europe and its disappearing glaciers? :eusa-think: "It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into...

Just so you know, I'm not working any magic inside the XenForo forum interface. All I'm doing is downloading your pix to my laptop, rotating them, and reposting. Maybe check in your phone that they're being saved right side up? There's no reason that XenForo would flip them 90 degrees.

While posting in the Lobster Roll thread about the word "youse," I ran across this 2013 NY Times article (a gift link/not paywalled) with a 25-question quiz that plots your U.S. English dialect/usage on a heat map, It uses obvious giveaways like sneakers vs. tennis shoes, highway vs. freeway...

Here's an Epicski report from April 2017 at Barèges-La Mongie here. An American hardcore and his wife were earning turns on what he describes as Chamonix-level steeps. Even more impressive is that he was 68 years old at the time -- hiking up and skiing down some DFU terrain.

Another reminder about using the archive.is page to access most paywalled articles. Insert the article link into the black box shown in the screen grab below.

While visiting family in Denver last week, I was reminded of something that drove me nuts during my time in Colorado's Front Range and Albuquerque decades ago -- how many (the majority of?) people and businesses out west plant grass and landscaping elements that are more appropriate to the...

We've often discussed the many challenges of renting cars domestically and internationally; however, I couldn't find a dedicated thread, so here it is. Maybe I should aggregate previous interesting discussions here. To start off, here's a NYT article about something I've often wondered about...

"It's always Mammoth! Mammoth! Mammoth!"

A NYT article reports on life for many ski-industry employees in Frisco, CO.

A sad story about a skier who didn't clear the road on Highway 40 near Winter Park: link

You may have noticed that I'm a big fan of skiing alongside bodies of water. I lined up these pix a couple years ago during off-season and never got around to posting them but since Tseeb seems to be throwing down the gauntlet above to jimk above, maybe now's the time. Following are mine taken...

Same for the most part. I don't like the 2-3 weeks every summer of hot/humid in the northeast and despite the tired cliché ("but it's a dry heat!") that people love to repeat in the western U.S., it doesn't matter to me how dry it is once the temp gets above 95F/35C. Knowing this, a friend who...

While the previous four days on this trip were at new-to-me places that finally pushed my count over 200, to close out this visit I opted for a return to a locals area on the south edge of picturesque Lake Lucerne that I skied on a powder day nine years ago. Starting out at lake-level 754m, I...

Before I get started with the proper trip report, here's a perfect opportunity for a minor grumble about European skiing, the dreaded hyphenated resort name: Engelberg-Titlis, Warth-Schröcken, Silvretta-Montafon, Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Damüls-Mellau, Mundaun-Obersaxen, St-Luc-Chandolin...

As this high-pressure system continues, I had to make up my mind whether to hit another big name in the Swiss skiing pantheon despite the lack of recent snow. I decided to go ahead with it because the following two days will likely have some level of cloud cover. Composed of the renowned Titlis...

I mentioned in the Europe 2024-25 thread that the Magic Pass -- which is basically made up of what Tony refers to as "James areas" (I've already skied at 19 of them) -- will be growing and they just announced a number of new mountains for 2025-26, in yellow below. I was surprised that the Gstaad...