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Flurries in Moore township
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2 minutes ago, toast21602 said:
Yikes. I changed hairdressers because mine wouldn't wear a mask. Now I get my temp checked before entering and everyone inside has a mask on.
We just had the one who did everyone's hair for our wedding come to our house and cut our hair outside in our backyard. Everyone wore masks still.
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1 minute ago, saltyant said:
WJW, this is the epitome of first world problems.
Yup, no one's fault but my own that I still have stuff at my parents house and the in-laws house.
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2 minutes ago, saltyant said:
This is what I've been thinking. I used to quit biking from November through March, but this year I'm going to stick with it, even if just using the trainer. When we get warm days in the mid 40s I'll be biking if I can.
The current temperature range (e.g. purgatory) sucks because it's too warm to ski, and a little too cold for biking.
I guess mountain biking might be warmer since you're not going fast and are insulated from the wind by trees. If I find a good deal on a mountain bike I'll get one.
X-country skiing sounds fun too but we just don't get enough snow these days
Yeah I think you can comfortably get away with riding a mtb in colder temps than a road bike. I did a ~15 mile road ride last friday morning up and back to AC to go surf and wore mittens even though it was only in the high 40s when I left the house. On the mtb I'd still be wearing my regular thin gloves for those same temps.
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I want to ski as much as anybody, but maybe it's time to invest in some new hobbies? Coincidentally, if it's too warm to make snow, that usually means it's pretty much perfect weather for riding bikes. I dread the offseason much less since I got into mountain biking. Also I still need to mount up my new skis, and I have winter stuff spread across 3 different houses still. I guess I should get my act together in the event that it actually starts to get and stay cold.
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to add to what jlaw said... isn't snowbasin ikonic? you should definitely get up there too, since it sounds like you'll have a car. basin is kinda like a mini snowbird to me. I guess you won't really get the full benefit of the super nice facilities like gold plated toilets and whatnot, but you can ski 90% of the mountain off of the two gondolas, there's a lot of fun groomers, and some stuff that would be a good intro to skiing off trail for you.
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23 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Pretty funny I also have about $350 in Southwest credits. The nice think about living here in Allentown is that I can fly out of philly, Newark or Lehigh valley. Newark is often cheaper than Philly but I don’t think Philly people want to drive to Newark to save $100. One suggestion Schifdawg is to switch around dates..I find Tuesday flights to be the least expensive followed by Wednesday and Thursday.
Yeah, I'll fly out of Newark if the time + money equation comes out ahead of philly based on better flight itinerary, but if it's the same basic itinerary to save $100 on the flight alone, probably not.
21 hours ago, Schif said:OK, I need some honest feedback here. Most of PASR has been relatively nearby when I get on a pair of skis, not saying I ever keep up, but some of you guys have witnessed, even if it's brief, my use of skis. If I was to go out to Utah I was planning on snowboarding, but @skiincy is Ikonic and suggested Deer Valley and Alta in addition to Snowbird. If I, a relatively new skier, was go go to Deer Valley and/or Alta would I be able to ski the majority of the mountain and have fun doing it?
DV is intermediate groomer heaven. You'll have a blast there. As others have said though, Alta is a lot more challenging of a mountain. I haven't skied there much, but I don't remember much in the way of groomers compared to DV, PC, or Canyons.
5 hours ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:Alta still doesn't allow Snowboards - right?
Not on the lifts, but as far as I understand it, you can hike or cut over from snowboard and ride down Alta on a board.
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1 hour ago, Schif said:
I'm looking at flights to SLC right now and they are surprisingly expensive. 430 for round trip out of Philly. Can save a few bucks and knock it down to around 350 by taking longer layover routes through Tampa but that doesn't seem worth it. I'm hoping prices take a dip in the next week or so.
layover in tampa is not worth saving $80 over. american is usually not the cheapest, but their flights out of philly to SLC are usually at times. I'm sure flight schedules are all sorts of wacky right now, but their ~6:30pm out of philly would get you into SLC a little before 10pm mountain time, so you could essentially save one vacation day that you would have otherwise used for traveling. then do redeye on the way back if you're really trying to milk it. i have about $350 in southwest credit, not sure what i'm going to do with it yet. maybe we get lucky and one/all the vaccines pan out sooner rather than later and we return to pseudo normalcy by mid ski season and i'll use it for a late season trip somewhere. who knows?
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42 minutes ago, Zonked said:
In the long run - who knows. I feel like healthcare costs are always in the fast lane. I handle the benefits for our company and BCBS notified us that they will be issuing a one-time medical premium relief credit for the month of December. We will not withhold medical insurance payroll deductions for any of our US employees in December. Which is nice for alot of our lower paid employees with families. That could be a few hundred back in their pockets. Even looking at our stats/claims over the past few months, its so odd compared to a normal year. We are just hoping it doesn't backfire when we go to renew and they want some crazy % increase.
sounds like a great case for universal publicly funded healthcare
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I picked up some black diamond mittens for stupid cheap. Last year's colorway saved me about $50! Mine have a more reddish brown than these.
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what kind of helmet do you have @NMSKI? goggles can fog for a number of different reasons, but having a helmet and goggles that fit well together, with vents in the helmet that can force air down into the top of the goggles definitely helps. I know oakley doesn't make them anymore, but I've never had my crowbars fog up on me aside from the lens that I cracked, or suuuuper warm/wet days. No issues with a buff tucked up under the goggles on normal days.
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i rode a gondola in quito, ecuador that is part of their public transit system. looks essentially the same as the k1 at killy, but it was designed with every intention of people riding down as well as up. used it for a day of mountain biking, where the guide i was riding with worked with a local shop to get the city to install bike racks on a few of the cabins so locals could use it for DH laps. place was awesome, it gave you an almost 3k ft descent and topped out close to 13k feet above sea level.
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On 10/24/2020 at 11:34 PM, Shadows said:
Like the outside of a merry go round as opposed to the inside.
Pretty sure if your merry go round is spinning at a constant rate, your velocity at the outside would be higher than the inside. Changing where your cable is in relation to the center of the circle, while maintaining the same linear cable speed, would just change how fast the wheel rotates, not how fast the chair on the cable is actually moving. Someone feel free to correct me on that, been a long time since my last physics class.
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1 hour ago, Lift Blog said:
Hate to break it to you guys but it's not a high speed detachable. "High speed" fixed grip quad.
how high speed are we talkin here? high speed in the loading zone + gapers = carnage. hope they got a cam pointed at that one!
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6 hours ago, RidgeRacer said:
That's very generous of you. You must've seen this photo of us swirling around.
we have that book! clearly that's a picture from camelback. blue mountain skiers have enough sense to wear helmets and not ski in jeans.
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That's not true at all, at least not at Blue.
In the middle of busy weekdays and any weekends it's not skiing, it's a torture. Snow's shit, part of the mountain is closed for racing, the rest is overcrowded by front platers because that's the earliest when they can start reaching the slopes.
Spring days are terribly slow, sticky and wet. Only by 5pm does it get firm and fast enough for skiing to become enjoyable.
Then they groom, and the entire mountain freezes solid overnight, so early morning hours are like skiing on a grater.
If it's not spring, but early or midseason when they still blow snow, then night skiing is exquisite, esp. if it's somewhat windy. Guns are roaring, snow is blowing, floodlights amplify the effect, and it becomes like skiing in a blizzard. There are no stupid conversations on the lifts like "beautiful day today, isn't it?", folks go up like ruffled birds, looking grimly at the elements below, self-administering a couple of sips of 80-proof heat from time to time (this ain't some watery crafty pocket beer for sissy days, this is the real stuff), thoughts drowning in the sound of guns and screaming for mercy airpods.
IDK what kind of snow days other people have paid for when they were buying their snowpasses, but I definitely was looking more for some of the latter than the former.
Wtf did I just read
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no one who can ski during the day prefers to ski at night. let's all just stop kidding ourselves
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1 hour ago, eaf said:
Losers. That's like forcing all night clubs to open at 6am 'cause you know, it's the best time to drink and party.
can't drink all day if you don't start first thing in the morning
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Blue used to have a T bar.
Also, I hope it's stupidly cold this winter. Then everyone will want to keep their faces covered anyway.
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2 hours ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:
It's pretty long. It's just flat. It has to be the first time I have ever seen a high speed lift used to connect 2 base areas.
Not quite the same scenario, but there's a lift at canyons that essentially connects two areas of the mountain, where you can take the lift in both directions. Also rode one in chamonix that just took you back and forth between two different ski areas; nothing under the lift was actually even in bounds at all.
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6 hours ago, Schif said:
We need to figure out how to put our raincoats on and keep on living because this weather isn't going to change for a long time.
That's a really interesting analogy, which I think is pretty appropriate. However, using that same line of thinking, it'd be like the president just not wearing a raincoat because he doesn't think the rain will actually fall on him and he'll never get wet. Then he gets wet, and his cotton candy looking hair starts to disintegrate.
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This goes to show how Trump is a man of the people, here for the working class. Trump put his health on the line traveling the country during a pandemic not because he had to, but because he wanted to help out those who don’t have a voice, he wanted to help out the working class who have been putting their lives on the line during this pandemic. Compare this to Biden who hid in his bunker and put his own health ahead of the health of 300 million Americans smh
I hope this is a drunk post
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Getting ready to fake his own death?
You’re the first person I’ve seen bring this up but ya know what? I think you might be on to something here. Fake his death, move out of the country to somewhere he can’t be extradited, then surprise! He’s actually still alive! Then he can continue trying to hog the spotlight while claiming he knew it wouldn’t be a fair election, the deep state was out to get him, etc, get a show on OAN or some Russian propaganda network and live out the rest of his life yelling at clouds.
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was in florida in february. daughter liked it (mostly because seashells and a waterslide), but florida is dumb. i could care less if i ever go back to that state. the seafood wasn't even that good.
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Skison 20/21?
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That's what they've said from the beginning. How feasible that is, or whether someone is actually willing to do it is an entirely different story.