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Yeah losing the border and also not being on a multi-mountain pass, not even that Independent Pass, they will have plenty of capacity for a normal winter. They just won’t get the volume, along with consumers probably preferring to do day trips instead of overnights... it’s all lining up for Jay Peak American skiers to have a once in a lifetime experience. Local businesses may disagree, ha, but for the skiers and riders it should be empty.

Yeah I know their marketing guy, he moved from Burlington to Rangley right before COVID... his photos have been great. Nice to see the revival up there. They certainly have long term challenges but it would be exciting to be involved in that project.

For sure, I’d live in Rocky Mountain ski country in a heartbeat. They still get fires but not nearly the frequency of other areas... the ski towns in CO/WY/MT get enough precip usually to keep them low risk. The wife and I talk about, could just up and leave one day. Would have no problem selling our place and putting it in a truck and head west, ha.

I saw a video a guy shot from his house after a fire in Oregon... somehow his house was completely untouched and his neighbors on both sides were leveled to the ground. His shed even got torched but by some matter of luck his house was completely fine. No thanks on forest fires, I’m good with 60mph winds being about the extent of damaging natural disasters around here.

Yeah I was thinking the 1st one might have been minor stroke or even a seizure that repeated itself later. “Serious medical episode” is usually something other than a broken bone. I’ve been alone on a chairlift with someone who started having a massive seizure and I had to pin them in the chair with all my weight...you never know when a “serious episode” will happen. They were unconscious and unresponsive the second half of the ride, 4-5 minutes of that feels like an eternity, I can’t imagine waiting for an hour or two for help.

Busy day of rescues in the White Mountains yesterday... From NH Fish and Game: Two National Guard Helicopters Assist Fish & Game with Simultaneous Hiker Emergencies in the White Mountains Franconia - At 12:49 p.m. Saturday afternoon NH Fish and Game Conservation Officers were alerted to a hiker suffering from a medical emergency at the summit of Mount Lafayette in Franconia. Two phone calls had been placed to 911, one call went to Vermont 911 while the other ended up going to Maine 911. Both calls were eventually transferred to NH 911 when it was learned that the calling party was in New Hampshire. The calls were eventually dropped but it was learned that a nurse who was on scene had advised of a male who was suffering a serious medical episode. Calls to the reporting party went unanswered. It was decided that the caretaker at the AMC Greenleaf Hut would hike up to the summit to determine what was going on. As the caretaker was preparing to head to the summit the stricken man arrived at the Greenleaf Hut after being assisted by other hikers. Upon arrival at the hut the man suffered another medical episode. It was determined by other hikers who had medical training that it would not be safe for the man to continue down the trail without assistance. Greenleaf Hut is located about three miles from the trailhead and would have taken 7 or 8 hours for rescuers to respond and carry the hiker down. A call was placed to the NH Army National Guard to determine the possibility of a flight to Mount Lafayette, as their crews were already preparing to handle another medical emergency atop Mount Jefferson. By 3:00 p.m. two flight crews had been assembled and two separate Blackhawk helicopters were taking off from Concord responding to both emergencies in the White Mountains. At 3:30 PM the first Blackhawk arrived at Greenleaf Hut and lowered a medic by hoist. At 3:45 p.m. the hiker and medic were hoisted back into the helicopter. The hiker was flown to Concord Hospital for evaluation. The hiker, identified as 50-year-old Patrik Svenson of Needham, MA had departed earlier that day in an effort to complete the Falling Waters/Bridle Path Loop. He completed 4.9 miles of the 9 mile hike he had planned when the medical episode occurred while he was on the summit of 5,260 foot Mount Lafayette. Thompson & Meserve’s Purchase – A Massachusetts man died after suffering an unknown medical condition while summiting Mt. Jefferson on Saturday afternoon. Officials say that a 60-year-old hiker from Mashpee, MA was hiking in a small group when he suddenly collapsed just before 2:00 p.m. Several Good Samaritan hikers, many who were in the medical profession who witnessed the event immediately started CPR and called 911. Fish & Game Conservation Officers were alerted to the emergency and started the rescue response. Due to the nature of the medical emergency, air support was requested from the National Guard unit from Concord. They responded by scrambling a crew as quickly as possible, getting a Blackhawk helicopter in the air and flying north from Concord. At the same time they were requested for another emergency hiker call on the summit of Mt. Lafayette. Fair weather conditions and the seriousness of the hikers’ conditions played a major role in the use of air support during these rescues. The National Guard helicopter crew arrived on scene and was able to extract the hiker from the summit of Mt. Jefferson by hoisting him up into the aircraft using a winch; a manuever which did not require a landing. Unfortunately, despite all the exhaustive efforts by fellow hikers providing constant resuscitation for nearly 2 hours and the arrival of the National Guard helicopter, he did not survive. The hiker, whose name is being withheld pending notification to family members, was experienced and in good health prior to his collapse.

Can't wait for these days... temps in the 30s this morning got me stoked.

That I certainly agree with 100%.

For sure there’s sex trafficking going on and has been since the dawn of time...the Epstein documentaries show it. I don’t think anyone denies that, plenty has been written and investigated there. The leap is then that Trump is the savior meant to uncover it when he has been known associates with Epstein and all the rest of it.

Yeah it truly shows America is operating in two completely different solar systems. It’s not even close. And then the family members will say “These people believe what they hear about COVID!” I’m thinking... you just told me there are kids in tunnels getting raped and then their blood drained so it can be drank by the wealthy elite. That’s believable but COVID is a hoax?! Am I high right now?

Interesting. It’s batshit crazy. I have family members who think kids are getting raped so Democrat’s and Hollywood elites can drink their blood.

It was happening a long time before COVID though... The conspiracy theory side of things is pretty much unchecked and running rampant right now. This stuff is mind blowing the more I read about it. How does this take hold in a place like America?! https://time.com/5887437/conspiracy-theories-2020-election/

It’s become cool to mock empathy. It’s all me, me, me. Definitely as divided as ever.

Add in worrying if your neighborhood will burn to the ground because someone tosses a cigarette butt out the car window... or maybe because there’s a gender reveal party down the street? Its crazy when it’s like “A lowered Honda Civic bottomed out pulling into the Walmart parking lot and the resulting sparks burned an entire county to the ground...”

Colorado web cams FTW this morning, ha.

Looks like it’s mostly done for now on live cam.

Man, Crested Butte in Colorado got smoked. Still green leaves and 26F in +SN, lol.

Ah yeah if that’s the case then lol. I just didn’t see any comparison at all to anything else in that study, just a vacuum look at Sturgis. But these days I guess nothing is truly in a vacuum. I’ll have to read up on their past work, I’m sure Twitter is highly entertaining on this too, haha.

Yeah I didn’t read the study trying to make that point or reference a comparison to any other type of gathering. I don’t agree with its numbers but even just mentioning a possible study of Sturgis, people seem to assume the authors have said it was worse than other things? University spread seems like it may be similar... certain schools are getting decimated and sent home where it happens.

Yeah it would be from the bars and indoor stuff if it’s there. The outdoor stuff is a hard sell. Close proximity, indoors, no masks, I mean we saw what that one wedding in Maine did recently. The party at Killington recently. If it happens, it happens indoors.

Casper, Wyoming. Not bad for September 8th.

26F with steady snow falling... Chamber of Commerce day in September for ski country, ha. Even snow blowing off the roof into the camera view, looks like dry powder.

It’s like modeling how much money in American health care costs are a result of the fast food industry...maybe this number? Maybe that number? Who knows? But the headline will be good: “Study finds the Fast Food Industry responsible for $100 billion in health care costs and accelerated the deaths of X number of Americans annually.” Modeling costs of negative externalities Is tough.

Any modeling is based on a decent amount of assumptions of behavior, from climate to health to economic models, so definitely use caution in any of those. It’s just another preliminary study that will evolve over time as it gets reviewed. The problem is it’s just such a sensitive topic right now that it’s almost impossible for anyone to read it in a truly objectively, IMO. At least it’s weather relevant factoring in temperature and precip to estimate indoor vs outdoor traffic . Ygcst=β +β Sturgis +β Temp +β Precip + β 'Xst+α +τt +εgct

This graphic out of CBS in Denver is like some Game of Thrones world. Way up NW will be freezing cold, then we will have land of fire, then winter snow, then more fire...