powderfreak

12z NAM likes the Whites.

lol that’s worth saving.

So sad. His passion was unmatched. RIP.

I haven't seen a tick but have had plenty of black flies and bugs over the past week on the mountain. Bugs are bad right now when the wind calms down and it's warm. Especially the mid-slope elevations right now. Peaks seem bug free, but that upper hardwood forest is pretty ripe for insects.

Good stuff, everyone has a specialized knowledge base. You're a good dude.... give knowledge to the group when the discussion is in your wheelhouse, but are also humble and recognize the situation. That's a conversation with someone who has background in it.

Ha yeah. Docs diagnosis are pretty damn good. The weather and snow amounts are so much more variable... the atmospheric system seems more unpredictable.

It’s crazy how much the toe/nail pain can be from something so minor...and easy to fix with a cut if it’s numb. It’s such a basic thing that feels incredible afterward, but can also make you black out from pain if you don’t prepare the area.

They are playing good baseball so far, but long way to go. It doesn’t seem like an “all-in” team where you go full send. It would have to be really cheap IMO but as Bloom has shown with Tampa and now Richards and Pivetta, he seems ok at sniffing out useable pitching staff. Add in that Cora seems to have some positive effect at extracting talent too... who knows. Need to find the pitching version of 2018 Steve Pierce .

Yikes!

I always thought the vaccine was to stop severe illness hospitalizations and/or death. Maybe that woman in the article is on a ventilator or even worse without the vaccine? Is it similar to wearing a seatbelt can reduce your chances of dying or serious injury in a car wreck... but it can still happen. I guess I always looked at it as a probability scale and tipping the odds in your favor as much as possible. But not that it’s 100% in your favor.

Into the trees? I can unload some big drives, the trick is getting it to go in the intended direction.

Thank you sir. I was drawing the conclusion that they both caused the same side effects for the same reason.

And by doing that it causes a very similar type of side effects? I always thought it was sort of like getting a synthetic virus vs. the real thing, ha. I guess if it elicits a similar immune reaction it makes sense that the side effects will be similar to the actual virus.

Oh I’m completely with you on kids. I don’t have any right now so don’t even think about it. I mean if their risk is so low I wouldn’t touch it. I did it for myself with the understanding that I may feel like shit a little bit but my chances of dying or being hospitalized seem gone. I don’t think I’ve ever got the flu but I get a flu shot every year. Once maybe 5 years ago I got smoked by a flu shot for like 3 days in bed afterward. Rare but happens I guess.

I mean that heart stuff happened to a lot of people who got COVID. Isn’t the vaccine like a watered down version? I’d assume some of the side effects are identical to the virus... doesn’t seem that shocking but maybe I don’t understand vaccines as well.

Given the amount of myocarditis from COVID-19, it wouldn’t be surprising if the vaccine mimics that in some way at times. I can see the connection. I mean that was one of the biggest issues with healthy younger people who got COVID... longer-lasting cardiac inflammation.

Yeah myocarditis from COVID is what kept Red Sox ace (former ace?) pitcher E-Rod out of the sport last year. Seems as though that was one of the larger risks for healthy individuals contracting COVID, having cardiac inflammation. Not surprising there are some cases from the vaccine too I guess, though sounds like they don’t know if it’s related. One would guess it is given the original virus acting that way.

Nothing says Memorial Day weekend like -5C 850s.

Ha yup, same exact temp here and the wife has the heated blanket out. Crazy swings this week. Today’s sky though was a different type of blue.

Sucks. I love this time of year. It’s legit light enough out to be like walking the dog until 9pm by natural light. If I could get winter weather with summer length of day... that’s my dream lol.

True but it’s not a completely linear relationship, no? You still need forcing and a way to wring that moisture out. In the long term you can see it happen with the new 30-year normals when some spots gained like 6” annual water. But it still can come in cycles. Being warmer doesn’t mean the precip comes evenly spread either... maybe we end up with more cold season water and less in warm season? I could see some distribution changes... maybe less frequent precip events but when they do happen they are bigger water makers? All interesting to consider.

Had to drive up to Derby on the Canadian border for an errand this afternoon... painful to be sitting in a car looking at this weather. Fantastic views and that lush, fresh light green of early warm season is pretty awesome. 10 out of 10 day.

2015 and 2017 weren’t wet? May/June those years up this way were very wet.

Gotta pay for the wet 2000s and 2010s.

The site seems pretty valid for that upper east side wall... as for skiing it's very similar to Nosedive, Bypass, Kitchen Wall, Bypass Chutes, Nosedive Glades, etc. The stake is nailed to that Birch tree. It is in a cold pocket facing northeast (much like the ski terrain in that area that holds snow so well and so long into the spring). It is right off the Toll Road, literally just like 10 yards or less from the road surface. The value in the Mansfield Stake though isn't the depth itself. I mean there's really nothing to compare it to on other mountains or even on Mansfield itself. So it's not something that can be used as a comparison to other areas, so in that regard the siting honestly doesn't mean that much to people. It's hard to say if it's right or wrong, but it seems representative of that area of the mountain. And it's well known to the local ski community because you pass it on your way up the Toll Road to steep back/side country terrain. The true value though is from it's period of record and it's consistency to compare to its own readings over time. Whether the siting is right or wrong, it's consistently right or wrong. Having depths from 1954 onward, gives it real value as a comparison to itself. And since it's been around for so long, skiers and riders know what the values mean. That's why we have so many benchmarks for ski terrain... at 25" you might be able to wander into some low angle woods very tentatively. At 40" the glades are generally skiable. At 60" most everything is skiable and in good shape depth wise. At 80-100" all of the big backcountry lines are full to go like the "Hundred Inch Chute". Things like that are even named based on the depth the stake is at when it's skiable.