powderfreak

My wife is addicted to their commentary on the Olympics.

Yeah and just to be clear I don't really have a stance on it in this liability vs gov't interference, just musing some thoughts. The masks seem "easy" and companies like easy ways to reduce liability. For sure mandating vaccines is in a whole other ballpark. I'm firm your body your choice on all angles so that's a hard no from me. Now, get vaccinated or wear a mask like many companies have started doing (I know we talked about it with FOX news and other corporations), it's an incentive but it's not a forced deal. I'm more lukewarm on that one. Companies can make you do things, like wear a mask or wear a helmet (ski country requires a lot of helmet wearing) or wear a red shirt... but once they step into forced vaccinations I'm off the boat.

Yeah for clarity I meant mask mandates. Nothing about vaccine mandates. Mask mandates seem like a very easy way to reduce liability and say "see look at us, we tried, we gave them all hand sanitizer and made them put on masks."

Yeah I'm probably too naive but I mean you see businesses like Family Dollar or Big Lots doing it, they aren't on capitol hill listening to lobbyists and stuff. It just feels more like this virtue signaling (we aren't going to be called out for not doing enough to protect our employees!) and legal departments saying hey, just like we put a sign up that says wet floor every time a drop hits the tile, we should wear masks to avoid litigation. I guess my line of thought was how we see it in the ski industry all the time... like a few too many employees get hit in the back of the head with a chairlift due to poor situational awareness. Now they all have to wear helmets if they are walking or working under the bullwheel. There are pluses and minuses. Helmets might even lower your situational awareness by limiting your field of vision and dampen noises that might otherwise clue you into something coming behind you. But employees put helmets on so that when OSHA comes around or any legal stuff happens it can be said that everything is being done outside of bubble wrapping the lift operators. I just see it more and more that companies continue to try harder and harder to reduce liability and in my mind masks fit into that.

Isn’t a private company like @WhitinsvilleWX‘s telling their employees to mask up different though? There’s no gov’t mandate to mask up in his state or his city. That strikes me to be more about the legal atmosphere in this country where people can sue for anything they want…. not necessarily the gov’t using a private company. Probably with a side of corporate virtue signaling but it strikes me more as something coming from the legal department.

Bears are masked. I feel safe. I keep telling them to take off the mask and it’s ok, the bear said the last human to say it’s ok was seconds before he got hit in the ass with a tranquilizer dart. Doesn’t trust authority.

That would get more people immunity for sure.

COVID is out there somewhere. 7:15pm, perfect weather at 3,300ft. Should get down by dark.

This made me laugh lol. All this serious conversation with this scattered in. Thank you .

76/52 off 47F this morning. What a run of top 10’ers.

There are some passionate syrup'ers out there. Like I personally can't tell any differences between whiskey shots (except they start to loosen me up), but some people can name types or even brands based on a sip. That type of dedication seems to happen among syrup too, ha.

All you need are maples, ha. But I stand by the VT treeskiing! VT Maple Syrup definitely has the "branding" down better than NY, NH, or ME.... who knows if it's better. A Mtn Ops coworker just got back from a Hawaii trip... she said the resort they stayed at gave out little mini bottles of syrup with your pancakes or waffles (because no sharing due to COVID, bringing this discussion on-topic). The syrup said "made in Hyde Park, VT" which is where many of our friends live next to Morrisville. That is literally the only product that you will find in a place like Hawaii or on a cruise or some type of destination vacation... Vermont maple syrup. It's branded well.

That forest type also leads to better treeskiing in Vermont. Very extensive maple-beech-birch forests in the mid-slopes.

Those are the spots that also usually have some great lunch deals… like two large slices and a drink for 4-5 bucks.

Buys only the cheapest ingredients from Sisco and supplements them with local supermarket brand when it’s on sale. That was the local Italian place I dishwashed for when I was 15 and 16. Nothing but the cheapest ingredients but people ate there like it was flown in from Italy.

Yeah that’s not murder. That’s trying to look too hard into something. Things like heat exhaustion or hypothermia come on subtly and slowly… they trick the brain, you get confused. When family is like no way, so and so would’ve called for help… happens all the time. The person doesn’t realize it’s happening. Like when it happens on Mt Washington… he never called for help, but they found him bootless in January and looking like he laid down for a nap. “Investigators say they expect Tramonte died of heat exposure and that foul play is not expected. Tramonte’s friends say the details surrounding her death don’t add up because she always carries a phone and would have called someone if she was sick. “She did not die of heat exhaustion,” Gerardi added. “I just know it.” An autopsy is being performed to determine an official cause of death. The officer who was with Tramonte is said to be cooperating with the investigation.“

Yeah I don’t think that’s an oyster… but if you crack open hardened bear scat you can find berries in the middle. Not quite the same thing.

Good like Vermont seafood.

He’s dressed like DIT on an 82F day when the dew point is 48F. Shivering.

Ok yeah those prices and pies fit. $25 for a large specialty pie.

Haha, more like you walk in and the entire Stowe High School graduating class is employed there.

Ha it snuck up on us how it is too with fast food. We don’t get it maybe once every 6 months when traveling or something… driving to CT we stopped at Mc D’s and every meal is like $10. I ended up going to Subway where you can at least still get a foot long for under $10 and feel slightly better about eating it lol.

Resort town prices here for sure… that’s not a pie shop like on a beach destination town in DE? Piecasso is the name here in Stowe and the place absolutely prints money. You’re right though, the pie is good so people pay it. And big, they say large pizza, it’s like a manhole cover in a box. Personally I’ve always wanted a Dominoes or something… see those large pies with toppings for like $7.99 and I’d be down with that instead of $25+ with tax whenever the wife or I want pizza.

You got 3 pizzas for only $50? For the last decade here a large pizza is $20-$24. Is this not what people pay for pizza?

Some crazy flash flooding has closed I-70 west of Denver for a while. That’s a big deal out there.