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According to a 1% prepper article, that is a very monocle thing to do. Are you also getting property in New Zealand?
What's your price range you willing to spend?-5°F with the windchill this morning. I did not realize this when I left the house, and I grabbed the wrong mittens. I needed moar warmth. Thinking of grabbing these:
Anyone have any experience with them? I want to use them DH skiing, fatbiking, and commuting by bike in the winter (see above!). With an all-leather construction, primaloft insulation, and a wool lining I figure they're worth the investment. As long as they're warm enough...
anyways,
This weekend was busy. DH skiing on Saturday morning (I'm trying to teach the 6y.o. to ski. He can do it, but refuses to listen... so doesn't put all the elements together. we'll get there though, he's almost there, and I know he loves to go fast!). Then off to my brother's place for the rain-check on Christmas where my kids behaved so horribly, it was really remarkable.
Sunday morning bike ride, and afternoon the boys started their xc-ski club/lessons. I skiied for a bit with my wife, but the conditions were terrible for classic, so we packed it in after about 30 minutes. The kids loved it though. My oldest is in a group with a couple of his close friends, so that helps, and the learn-to-ski program for the little guy is all about getting comfortable on skis, so they play games and fart around. There's no emphasis on technique, it's just about getting used to having skis on to find their balance. He loves playing, so it went well, and I think it will cross over well with his DH skiing.
Since getting my Garmin watch for Christmas, my phone lives in the bowls of my pack while I'm riding/skiing. Which means no pictures while we're out. I just realized today that was one of the main reasons I actually used strava, was to have pictures while out on my rides. whithout the pictures, strava is kind of boring... I think that's going to have to change.
If you don't mind spending the cash... look at some of the high end hunting gloves. You will find warm to hot, waterproof, windproof, moisture wicking, mobilitly, ability to throw a hand warmer in, thin build, toughness all rolled into one.
Also if you go sitka, you can spend dentist level moneys
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some kinda glove company. hers are made for the alpine yet her digits always be frosty.
The only hunting supply store that I know of up here was LeBaron, but a google search informed me they closed down. There must be more, but I was getting tired of searching and that point!
Sportsmanswherehouse cables, bass pro, walmart.....
Or just google sitka....... while they are a pretty penny, they are quite nice
Wifey made really good cauliflower and cheese soup last night, but it was mostly cauliflower unlike how it's normally made. Super good, but omg the roughage. I had a double last night and a double for lunch. I've since probably lost 5# and it's not letting up. Please FSM help me... I can't handle this much longer.
Hour and a half snow blowing today. I did it twice...hope Full Trucker is enjoying himself at The Village!
I may have a Kansas zip code soon if the wind gets much stronger.
blowin' like crazy down hear.
I'm with you. I had half a can of sauerkraut to myself last night, and holy hell the toilets at work have been paying the price!
Cool site!
cauliflower farts smell like cauliflower
Goddam is there alotta snow up here. Late start, early finish. Have worn the kids out with 5 straight days of skiing.
Probably should try to find some tacos...
Edit: Dammit! Wife is gonna make me do a few more runs.
Probably should try to find some tacos...
Edit: Dammit! Wife is gonna make me do a few more runs.
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I had to dodge a christmas tree rolling across the road like a piece of tumbleweed on the way through the neighborhood tonight. Blowing here too....And cold as F.
Finishing up my knife project before work.....
Brass is fitted, it's been epoxied and is now curing. Will need a final polish in a few days and I will have proper photos
Brass is fitted, it's been epoxied and is now curing. Will need a final polish in a few days and I will have proper photos
nothing but a gentle breeze and a light dusting
Howling winds whipped ridge tops around the Tahoe Basin Sunday as a fierce winter storm swept the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range.
A gust of 148.4 mph at a Squaw Valley peak was among the strongest. To put that in perspective, 140-mph winds have been known to pick up and hurl baseball-sized rocks.
The fastest gust ever recorded in California was a 199-mph wind blasting the summit of a peak at Alpine Meadows in Feb. 2017. New Hampshire's Mount Washington holds the record for fastest wind speed on U.S. soil — 231 mph.
ALSO: What a dump! Storm brings massive Sierra snowfall
Squaw and neighboring Alpine were among the many Tahoe resorts forced to temporarily close lifts Sunday as the system battered the region and dumped more than two feet of snow in 24 hours along the crest.
Alex Spychalsky, a spokesperson with Squaw, says lifts on the ridge were still on a wind hold Monday at Squaw and Alpine as crews worked on avalanche control and testing lifts.
"The lower mountain lifts are what's open, excluding KT22," Spychalsky says.
Squaw received 29 inches of snow at 8,500 feet in a 24-hour period spanning Sunday and Monday mornings, and she says conditions will be great for skiing once the operational work is complete.
"This storm brought our season snowfall total up to 147 inches, which is nearly double the total snowfall we had on this same date last season [75 inches]," she says.
Diamond Peak Ski received 30 inches, Northstar 26, Homewood 24, Mammoth 18, and Sierra at Tahoe 13.
Homewood reported a weekend snow total of 40 inches.
Light snow flurries were in the forecast for the Tahoe Basin through Monday at noon and conditions expected to clear in the afternoon, providing skiers with a window for enjoying all the fresh powder.
Another winter storm is slated to reach the Sierra Tuesday night and deliver another foot of snow with storm conditions persisting into Wednesday.
Howling winds whipped ridge tops around the Tahoe Basin Sunday as a fierce winter storm swept the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range.
A gust of 148.4 mph at a Squaw Valley peak was among the strongest. To put that in perspective, 140-mph winds have been known to pick up and hurl baseball-sized rocks.
The fastest gust ever recorded in California was a 199-mph wind blasting the summit of a peak at Alpine Meadows in Feb. 2017. New Hampshire's Mount Washington holds the record for fastest wind speed on U.S. soil — 231 mph.
ALSO: What a dump! Storm brings massive Sierra snowfall
Squaw and neighboring Alpine were among the many Tahoe resorts forced to temporarily close lifts Sunday as the system battered the region and dumped more than two feet of snow in 24 hours along the crest.
Alex Spychalsky, a spokesperson with Squaw, says lifts on the ridge were still on a wind hold Monday at Squaw and Alpine as crews worked on avalanche control and testing lifts.
"The lower mountain lifts are what's open, excluding KT22," Spychalsky says.
Squaw received 29 inches of snow at 8,500 feet in a 24-hour period spanning Sunday and Monday mornings, and she says conditions will be great for skiing once the operational work is complete.
"This storm brought our season snowfall total up to 147 inches, which is nearly double the total snowfall we had on this same date last season [75 inches]," she says.
Diamond Peak Ski received 30 inches, Northstar 26, Homewood 24, Mammoth 18, and Sierra at Tahoe 13.
Homewood reported a weekend snow total of 40 inches.
Light snow flurries were in the forecast for the Tahoe Basin through Monday at noon and conditions expected to clear in the afternoon, providing skiers with a window for enjoying all the fresh powder.
Another winter storm is slated to reach the Sierra Tuesday night and deliver another foot of snow with storm conditions persisting into Wednesday.
I am really hoping that ended up moving my way.. We are seriously behind on snowfall.
They called 13" at the village, and then it proceeded to snow most of the day...Goddam is there alotta snow up here. Late start, early finish. Have worn the kids out with 5 straight days of skiing.
Probably should try to find some tacos...
Edit: Dammit! Wife is gonna make me do a few more runs.
That sounds like it would have been a *very* good Monday.
Snowbird had the Peruvian AND the tram closed all day due to wind.
Sublette was closed all day, a few of my amigos will get fat pow manana. For a few runs, at least. avy danger pretty strong, so inbounds day. Sounds like you hit Utah right as well...
Is that good or bad in Canadian pesos?@slyfink I just saw gas for 88.8 a liter.
Good. if you like cheap gas.
do the math. .946 liters per quart. 4 quarts per gallon
Just finished my first VPP service that I started around midnight last night, encouraged by a few lagers. Besides having to deal with eleventy billionty small parts, it has been the simplest suspension job so far, but I see how this becomes a quarterly routine. Now enjoying Captain Lawrence's Powder Dreams NEIPA and reheating leftover rib eye from last night. 
that's a mighty fine lookin' piece of hardware. good job.
i was a little let down by the IPA version of powder dreams.
the galactic fog on the other hand
I ate Trout today. It wasn't fresh. I froze them in the summer. They sure were tasty. I remembered the day I caught them while I was eating them...
Still no time in the woods. This Xmas season has really taken it out of me. Just can't seem to get enough sleep. Gotta get caught up on a few orders then, maybe, I dunno, ride, hike, nap...
don’t forget the thai!!!
Very much so. Sorry I didn’t reach out, we’re stayin with good friends on the Driggs side.
It was.
Oh, dude...Okay Thai place has been upgraded to full on Kick-Ass-Thai. Power went out for an entire city block right when I placed my to go order. I was pretty much the only customer in there and the cook put on a headlamp, fired up the wok and made my order. So awesome.
Do they mountain bike?
