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Food as a percentage of income, even after the inflation of the past three years, is far lower than in the past. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=100002#:~:text=Average share of income spent,had shrunk to 9.5 percent.

Firms have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to engage in profit-maximizing behavior. If the consumer is not particularly price-elastic, then the firm should raise prices to increase revenue. Firms are not engaging in any kind of collusion, they're simply taking signals from the market. Trust me, pricing hikes backfire all the time... Right now, my company has far greater pricing power in the US than we do in the EU, for example. Is that because the American consumer is healthier, the EU consumer smarter, or something else? Who knows (well, we have theories). Nonetheless, our pricing strategy is planned accordingly.

So essentially turning it into two trails?

I don't know how Westway is open. It's more saplings than trees at this point.

You're not missing much.. Here in Hoboken it's white rain.

Palisades base is at 6300ft and Alpine Meadows at 6900. Still should be a ton of snow though!

A good part of the snow in that map in NNE is from the Thursday system.

Up at Tremblant this weekend. A toasty -15°F this morning.

I got quite bad frostbite on 2/5/22 skiing at Jay (and I generally dress quite warmly/am acclimated to cold conditions)... That was merely a 10/-9 day at EFK. Would hate to be there on Friday/Saturday.

Yeah, it's got some nice pitch. Was generally impressed by the operation.

Was able to get out and ski Montage for four hours this morning. Conditions and coverage were far better than I expected given the warm weather we’ve had here in the mid-Atlantic. They also have some interesting trails-pretty steep on the lower mountain (albeit only about 500 vertical, the top 500 vertical is low intermediate). Unfortunately won’t be able to ski for nearly a month as I’ll be in Miami for two weekends and then Austin. I’ll definitely try to ski the weekend of 2/17 if possible and then I’m heading to Tremblant the last weekend of the month. Hard to believe it almost February and I only have 8 days in.

Cranmore reporting 6” LOL.

The Cranmore massif doesn't tend to wring out snow in the same way as the Wasatch. I'd expect the same on the mountain as what falls in town.

That shows temperatures at or below 0c until Wednesday?

No they're not. Paris is raining and in the 40's. The Alps are about to get dumped on. https://opensnow.com/location/frchamonix

I was in the Austrian alps over Christmas. Generally speaking, a decent snowpack (100-120cm) above about 17-1800M, but way below average underneath that. For example, at the skiing at the top of St. Anton and Zurs (2000-2600m) was pretty good, but the runs back to the villages were manmade snow. In downtown St. Anton, which sits at ~1250m, there was no snow at all.

Yeah, it’s huge. From the Northwest Side (Warth Schrocken) to the Southeast side (St. Anton) would take about half a day to ski.

I’ve been in Lech/Zurs/St Anton for the last four days. Conditions haven’t been great. Rain/snow line has covered around 2000M and the snowpack below about 1400M is obliterated (St. Anton town has essentially no snow-Lech and Zurs a bit better). Anyway, snow levels dropped last night and delivered about 25cm above 1500M. Off-piste Skiing at the higher elevations where there is about 80-100Cm of base is quite good. Huge relief as the first few days weren’t great (scenery and atmosphere were great, the skiing not so much). And yes-I was in the same spot as the Zurs avalanche that buried ten people about 30 minutes before. Extremely lucky.

I was out in Hackettstown today for work and there was still some snow here and there (though that's barely south of I-80). Was weird going from Hoboken where we barely saw flakes.

I have skied probably 9 or 10 days total. It is a great place to ski, but not ideal for a storm day. It is very much open bowl skiing and that area of the Wasatch is prone to fog.

I work for one of the two main manufacturers of Halloween candy and I can assure you, Halloween is not going out of style. The category (I.e all manufacturers) +14% season to date. Granted, the majority of that is pricing flowing through but volume is up as well.

Grand Targhee is usually high on the list for early season snowpack.

The way they manifest themselves is different, sure, but the lack of building in the Champlain Valley hasn’t helped Stowe. Otherwise, it could be a relief valve to Stowe.

The issue is that it’s nearly impossible to build anything in the Northeast due to a combination of NIMBYism, construction costs, and regulation. Look at housing production/capita in fast-growing yet relatively affordable metros (I.e Houston, San Antonio, Greenville/Spartanburg, just to name a few) vs. the Burlington, VT MSA.

I don't get altitude sickness, but I do "notice" elevation during my first couple days at higher altitudes. That said, for me, the key is sleeping a high altitude. For example, when skiing at Telluride, you're sleeping at about 9,000 feet. So despite the fact that you're skiing at 11-12,500 feet, it doesn't affect me too much. Similarly, when I hiked Kings Peak, UT (13,528ft), we camped at about 11,000 feet the night before summiting. I don't remember being winded by elevation, more so by the death march that was the exit from the wilderness (30ish mile day). On the other end of the stick, I definitely notice the elevation when skiing at comparatively low Snowbird (9-11,000ft) when I'm sleeping at 4,500 feet in the valley.