powderfreak

Evening swim and moonlit walk along the ocean is a nice consolation prize for the Red Sox failing to play baseball tonight.

0-13 with RISP after Game 3 will be the postmortem. Made ALCS in a rebuild year. Try to win tomorrow and force game 7.

Ah right the secondary markets. I was thinking from the actual event ticketing dept itself. You can definitely find transferable products that people who bought cheap in advance and use for resale.

It’s advanced ticket sales. Like Stowe is on there at what, $164? Right now you can buy day tickets for $69 online good for any day of the season… or buy the Epic pass daily of passes. But day tickets right now are $100 less bought in advance. It’s literally how everything in life is set up right now…buy ahead of time, things are regarded as “reasonable”… but if you want to walk up to an airline counter, rental car counter, ticket office for a concert, sporting event, etc minutes before said activity you will pay out the arse. If you buy anything online ahead of time, it’s significantly cheaper. Even down in South Carolina playing golf this week… buy online ahead of time, play for like $75 per round midweek. Or, just walk up to the course and pay $140 with no prior research.

Car in Hilton Head, SC said 75F just now. Looks like it’s warmer up in CT than the beach here .

Yep, it’s why the garden here died weeks ago despite no freezing temps. Everything shriveled up and brown, already pulled from the ground now. Solar matters a lot. The early shadows cast by hillsides and such seemed to kill it before a frost could this year.

Yeah my wife and I have done it. Unfortunately no one will be gliding again because the owner and a couple from CT were killed a few years ago when the glider crashed in a downburst above 3,000ft in a remote part of the Greens a few peaks north of Mansfield. NTSB blamed weather, and friends with Stowe Mountain Rescue who located them said it was just straight down rapid deceleration into the spruce forest. I’ll always remember that day as only three of us were left at Mtn Ops late that afternoon when we got a call from Police if we could do a hasty search of Spruce Peak at the ski area. State Police cell phone pings were last noted over Spruce and they thought he might’ve tried to land on a wide open ski slope if they got into trouble. We searched on ATV and side by sides until a spotter plane flying out of Morrisville located the glider down a few summits north. That glider made 3-5 trips per day for like 6 months a year… freak accident but weather in the mountains will do that with summer convective thermals/updrafts/downdrafts.

Yeah I’ve got a hard 6-8”+ limit now and that needs to be at least 6” near the base area. I’ll skin but my days of carrying skis to the snow line are done. I’ll just hike with the dog to see snow at that point.

Ha yeah low flying circles angling and looking straight down on the ground from 2kft up is quite the trip. Again as a tall, wide shoulder Scandinavian I was a tight fit and I remember my knee bumping something in the center console and the pilot reaching over to fix something while going “Hey, try not to hit that again.” I remember being terrified and “Absolutely boss, I’ll just keep my legs outside the craft.”

Been a real good month.

I think he’s UVM… we did that back in college too. Back when your body felt like it could take it better if things went south . Also the risk reward balance seemed shifted. I could deal with a broken leg better in college, just limp to classes on crutches… now it means missing work, money and a pain in the ass on multiple levels.

My only time up in one was to shoot photos at the ski area and I was in the front seat with the doors removed and one leg hanging out. They decided we couldn’t take photos and videos from the helicopter through windows so I see the pilot removing the doors and he just goes “don’t drop anything or it’s gone.” The whole time I’m just praying the seatbelt harness holds since when the helo would turn, I’d be looking straight down on the mountain with no door or anything between me and the forest 2,000 feet below. Ridge top winds as we’d approach the top were hammering the craft too. Definitely one of the more “cowboy” feeling things I’ve ever done. Flying around this little chopper with no doors, trying not to drop my phone or camera into the parking lot or golf course.

It’s true. Put a large camera backpack on me and it gets real tight sometimes. Skiing on 190cm skis doesn’t make it any easier, like driving trucks through the woods. Get real good at punching branches out of the way. Jealous of the kids who just bob and weave through the tight stuff.

Ha, ‘‘twas a good night for you Yankee fans.

Saw this photo from a Wal-Mart in Auburn/Lewiston, ME area. 7 vehicles involved in parking lot accident, including female trapped with car on top of her vehicle? Only at Wal-Mart.

Ha my family is a bunch of Norwegian giants. One of my sisters is the shortest in our immediate family at 5’10”. My other sister is near 6 feet tall. My mom was 5’11” (though seems to be getting a little shorter with age) and Dad is 6’2”. When we get a family photo together our spouses all stand out, on the shorter side of things . My sisters are pretty close if not a shade taller than their husbands.

Took two regional Bombardier CR jets to get to Savannah, GA yesterday. At 6’3” I can’t sit in the window seat without leaning to the side due to my head hitting the ceiling, and my shoulders wouldn’t fit side to side in the aisle where the lavatories are, ha. My 5’2” 110 pound wife was like “I don’t see the problem, plenty of room.” Not sure I can picture the MD-80 or 90…

This kid had first turns of the season in VT (I believe) at Stowe this morning. That’s dedication.

This dude skied Stowe this morning…

Stake photo from a coworker.

Yeah just that after picture along with “no serious injuries” made my brain cramp up, lol. Glad no one was injured but you don’t picture everyone walking away from that. Crashing and burning like the Astros.

Definitely off-topic… but how the hell does this plane crash have no serious injuries?! Mind blown.

Yup that’s how max/mins go, great point. No real time limit on residency. A brief patch of clear skies drops a rad pit 10F and then it clouds up and temps rise again… same with cloudy showery days, one pocket of sun can spike 5-8F higher than what it sat at 90% of the day.

That makes sense. They are both just the visible stations in that area. That Broadacres one looks like it’s in your backyard on Wunderground . https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNHRANDO11 That station is pretty identical to Alex’s at 1550 or whatever. Looks like Alex’s area had a low of 39-40F too. It varies so much, same around here.

You must radiate a bit better than your neighbors in that field which is nice though. 39F for today’s min on wunderground station (Broadacres Farm on Randolph Hill 1600ft, currently 42F) and that Cocorahs guy 38F. Makes sense, would think your field gets a bit colder. Every degree helps. Need clear skies for frost. Clouds and wind every night.