[SkaredShtles]

the reward of lines everywhere once there and the uncertainty of shit traffic on the way home? nothx. i'll take year round riding.

Fortunately, after so many years of skiing the local resorts, I've sorted out a "management" plan for weekend crowds, which works most of the time. And despite the hype, weekday skiing is still a ghost-town almost all season long.

And I'm OK with you choosing year-round riding... I wish about 2 million people here would *also* make that choice and move to NC.

Ugh, IHOP. Went there once with my kids, never again. That was in Colorado actually as well. Somewhere up in Denver where BIL lives. Quite far north just inside the 470 maybe? It was full of morbidly obese people and no actual nutrition was available. Kids had pancakes with coloured sugar chemicals and ‘yoghurt’ in a plastic tube. Felt disgusting.

It's quite amusing the differences in people you see depending on where in the metro you go... south and west you'll see a lot fewer giant, fat folks than you do in the northern suburbs. As you go northwest towards the Boulder Bubble it's similar...

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

Let's try this again.....

 

[SkaredShtles]

Let's try this again.....View attachment 173594

@FSM speed, sir! Has way too much digital crap for my liking. Now get off my lawn.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

the reward of lines everywhere once there and the uncertainty of shit traffic on the way home? nothx. i'll take year round riding.

chapel thrill isn't much further than ashevegas, and maybe even a better place . fuck asheville and its fake artsy vibe, preppy boomer tourists, and trustafarians

Had to explain the term trustafarian to my mom after one panhandled her outside the library downtown. She was shocked and confused that the homeless looking dude with dirty dreadlocks was wealthy.

Chapel Hill ain’t so bad though. Haven’t been in a long time but wouldn’t dread it like having to visit Assville. Although I did get to live there when it was still cool and an amazing art and craft scene, you couldn’t pay me to live there now.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

@FSM speed, sir! Has way too much digital crap for my liking. Now get off my lawn.

Is it blue tooth compatible or have WiFi and controlled by an app on your phone ? Does it tell you when the pancakes are done ?

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

@FSM speed, sir! Has way too much digital crap for my liking. Now get off my lawn.

It's got maybe 1/4 the bells and whistles and fancy schmancy settings the old ones had....I felt like a commercial pilot whenever I ran them.

 

[stevew]

the reward of lines everywhere once there and the uncertainty of shit traffic on the way home? nothx. i'll take year round riding.

chapel thrill isn't much further than ashevegas, and maybe even a better place . fuck asheville and its fake artsy vibe, preppy boomer tourists, and trustafarians

chapel hill is about a 3 hour drive....asheville...90 minutes....the orange peel is probably my favorite spot in nc besides kings barcade in raleigh...

 

[Changleen]

 

[Toshi]

I hope @Toshi can make the most of this ...
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And despite the hype, weekday skiing is still a ghost-town almost all season long.

It was good. Very good. Trees under Panoramic especially choice.

There were lines, maybe 5-10 min. Denver showed up and still Texas spring break. Still worth it.

 

[SkaredShtles]

It's got maybe 1/4 the bells and whistles and fancy schmancy settings the old ones had....

This is our washer control - which also has too many "options" IMO:

 

[stoney]

Ugh, IHOP. Went there once with my kids, never again. That was in Colorado actually as well. Somewhere up in Denver where BIL lives. Quite far north just inside the 470 maybe? It was full of morbidly obese people and no actual nutrition was available. Kids had pancakes with coloured sugar chemicals and ‘yoghurt’ in a plastic tube. Felt disgusting.

Thankfully we are very mindful of what the girls eat. I can't eat the pancakes, so Haley usually eats mine. Syrup isn't a thing for us. And the girls usually can't finish the kid sized meals anyways. That nasty, fat American thing thankfully isn't an issue for us. Hell, Haley has a damn 6-pack and can't keep weight on if she tries.

Fortunately, after so many years of skiing the local resorts, I've sorted out a "management" plan for weekend crowds, which works most of the time. And despite the hype, weekday skiing is still a ghost-town almost all season long.

Go steeper. It works better.

 

[jstuhlman]

chapel hill is about a 3 hour drive....asheville...90 minutes....the orange peel is probably my favorite spot in nc besides kings barcade in raleigh...

that's right, you're a further west than me. for me, asheville and chapel hill are both about 2:15. i miss the old cats cradle, when ir was actually in chapel hill and not carrboro. actually never been to orange peel. always was cats cradle, brewery, ziggys, and here in clt tremont (rip), amos, milestone, or fillmore.

 

[jonKranked]

This is our washer control - which also has too many "options" IMO:

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Back when you were a kid, you washed you clothes in the river with a stick and a rock

 

[stoney]

Back when you were a kid, you washed you clothes in the river with a stick and a rock

Dude. He's not @johnbryanpeters

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

that's right, you're a further west than me. for me, asheville and chapel hill are both about 2:15. i miss the old cats cradle, when ir was actually in chapel hill and not carrboro. actually never been to orange peel. always was cats cradle, brewery, ziggys, and here in clt tremont (rip), amos, milestone, or fillmore.

The sound engineer that designed the Orange Peel’s system was a friend of mine. It is the only PA that I can understand what someone says when they are just talking into the mic. His name was Nathan Milner, Grammy nominated, older bluegrass producer. He passed away last year after a battle with cancer. RIP

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

Dude. He's not @johnbryanpeters

Yup, mr fancy pants probably had a washboard.

 

[jonKranked]

Dude. He's not @johnbryanpeters

because JBP knows better than to wash a pelt

 

[SkaredShtles]

It was good. Very good. Trees under Panoramic especially choice.

There were lines, maybe 5-10 min. Denver showed up and still Texas spring break. Still worth it.

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Dammit... reminds me of a day @Full Trucker and I enjoyed a few years back. This is the meadow-skipping portion of lower Sterling Way:

 

[SkaredShtles]

<snip>
Go steeper. It works better.

This is good advice for management of crowds on ski runs - but I also have a plan for lift line management. I used to pitch the "steeper is better" to the wife when the kids were growing up, telling her the steep shit was *way* safer for little kids.

Back when you were a kid, you washed you clothes in the river with a stick and a rock

I actually did this when I thru-hiked the Colorado Trail a few times. Without the stick, of course - no need to complicate beating clothes on a rock.

 

[StiHacka]

Dammit... reminds me of a day @Full Trucker and I enjoyed a few years back. This is the meadow-skipping portion of lower Sterling Way:

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That's it? I remember a ski day back in Czechia when the powder was waist deep. That was kinda interesting, but slow as fuck.

 

[SkaredShtles]

That's it? I remember a ski day back in Czechia when the powder was waist deep. That was kinda interesting, but slow as fuck.

Oh - that was this day:

That is the day I will forever compare every "powder day" to... I'd like to have another few hundred days like that, plz.

 

[stoney]

This is good advice for management of crowds on ski runs - but I also have a plan for lift line management. I used to pitch the "steeper is better" to the wife when the kids were growing up, telling her the steep shit was *way* safer for little kids.

I have wifey on board with this - steep, trees, bumps. Weeds out Texas fast.

 

[jstuhlman]

steeper...more backcountry...always better

 

[SkaredShtles]

I have wifey on board with this - steep, trees, bumps. Weeds out Texas fast.

Yep. And if a TexOkie *does* show up, they're going so slowly as to not be a hazard.

 

[stoney]

steeper...more backcountry...always better

That's actually getting more dangerous now, sadly.

 

[SkaredShtles]

That's actually getting more dangerous now, sadly.

It has *always* been more dangerous than resort skiing. BC really is a completely different snow-sliding discipline...

 

[TreeSaw]

Good morning friends. Nice to see you all today.

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This 10000%
We have staff development tomorrow and 2 hours of curriculum mapping (I've already done mine so I'll be staring at my chromebook aimlessly trying to get other shiete done) and then a pot luck lunch; breakfast and "fun wellness activities" for the rest of the day.

 

[jstuhlman]

This 10000%
We have staff development tomorrow and 2 hours of curriculum mapping (I've already done mine so I'll be staring at my chromebook aimlessly trying to get other shiete done) and then a pot luck lunch; breakfast and "fun wellness activities" for the rest of the day.

my "fun wellness activities" tomorrow will consist entirely of fucking the fuck off and heading directly for the hills

 

[jonKranked]

my "fun wellness activities" tomorrow will consist entirely of fucking the fuck off and heading directly for the hills

I have zero meetings tomorrow. Hot tub needs fresh water, might sneak out for trail work and riding.

 

[Toshi]

Dammit... reminds me of a day @Full Trucker and I enjoyed a few years back. This is the meadow-skipping portion of lower Sterling Way:

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Quite reminiscent of that, yes

Two screencaps from vids. Got to condense it down.

 

[canadmos]

I've never skiied anything other than hard packed groomed ice. Maybe that's why I stopped.

Can't wait to see video of Toshi getting blasted in the face by that white stuff.

 

[Toshi]

Video as promised

2:07 of powder

https://twitter.com/maximumcharacte/status/1504605673283325955

 

[6thElement]

Can't wait to see video of Toshi getting blasted in the face by that white stuff.

To be fair, in his video it looks like it's not his first time.

 

[slimshady]

Happy St Patrick's day yo old crusty monkeys! Just learned our customer renewed the contract for 8 moar years, and Guinness is being domestically brewed here in Argentina.

 

[Toshi]

To be fair, in his video it looks like it's not his first time.

sometimes it drips down my beard afterwards

 

[rideit]

OMG, all of the guys here in the shop are SO drunk. Jamesons and guiness since opening. I left for a few hours, and the difference is...dramatic.

 

[rideit]

That's actually getting more dangerous now, sadly.

It's not that it's getting any more dangerous, it's that the ridiculous amount of people competing for good terrain is causing people to take more risks to get the pow.
See 'hueristic traps' as well.

 

[sunringlerider]

Heh. Winter Park is *not* Vail... fortunately.

This is our washer control - which also has too many "options" IMO:

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We had some fancy piece of shit that dang you a song when it finished. Lasted 5 years before it died. Went as simple as possible this time.

 

[stevew]

that's right, you're a further west than me. for me, asheville and chapel hill are both about 2:15. i miss the old cats cradle, when ir was actually in chapel hill and not carrboro. actually never been to orange peel. always was cats cradle, brewery, ziggys, and here in clt tremont (rip), amos, milestone, or fillmore.

ziggys was cool....only ever got to see black angels/dead meadow there....

amos....saw mastadon there...clutch/coc...explosions in the sky was deafening...

tremont....i saw a brian fallon band there....fu manchu....graveyard.....naam....nothing....

milestone....never

fillmore....danzig.....deftones....dave chapelle...i want to say brmc...

 

[stevew]

I actually did this when I thru-hiked the Colorado Trail a few times. Without the stick, of course - no need to complicate beating clothes on a rock.

clotheslines.....i miss the smell of clothes that were hung out to dry in virginia growing up...

nearly decapitating myself on said clothesline hauling ass around the back of the house to the basement on the bike....not so much....