powderfreak

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...

Pretty crazy satellite of the fires in Cali...that’s when the lack of rain gets real in a hurry.

The diurnal ranges out west are hard to fathom... was just clicking around, saw Steamboat Springs had a high of 89F yesterday and right now it’s 40/28 with a forecast high of 87F again today. Just massive near 50F temp swings...wake up chilly at 40F and then have upper 80s by 2pm.

Bodies wrapped in tie-dyed sheets with peace signs all over.

There’s gotta be some catch. 200k for 2,000 square feet a mile from the base of the ski resort and it isn’t a complete dumpster fire on the inside...

This weekend is out of control, lol. All restaurants have been completely sold out, people getting pissed they can’t eat out. Every parking lot full, cars parked on lawns, been like old times. Even parking along our driveway. Good for the economy.

@cpickett79 here’s your spot... probably 180” annual in your front yard. And you don’t have to sleep in a camper.

Nice on the Stowe Cider! I live like a couple hundred yards from their brewery, ha. Exactly the same choices my wife and I usually have... Double IPA here, Stowe Cider for her. I think Tips Up is her favorite as well, she just calls it the "green can one."

Big moon tonight.

McKesson Corp huh?

Check out the ECMWF prog Ginxy posted earlier in one of the threads... 95-100F at DEN and then possible snow a day later, lol. I still can’t get over those numbers on that chart.

Gondola has been running at Stowe most of the summer... if you live together you ride together is the current motto. Winter will be similar though I think if it’s singles they say they’ll do one single on opposite sides of the gondola with face covering.

Lot of that around here, but I also love the mix of humanity between that and people like my wife and I who live here in a 1,200 square foot townhome. I’m never jealous and everyone gets along just fine in a common love of the local area... I love my life and know I get to spend probably 300+ of 365 days at or on the mountain. People ask what it’s like to live among that wealth but you just don’t notice it with people. It’s funny how passions of outdoor recreation can bring folks together as we have several friends who are wealthy beyond anything I can imagine (such as Boston area commercial real estate who spend time between coastline in Mass, Stowe and Bermuda) but when you go skiing or hiking, none of that matters. You’re just humans who love being outdoors on a mountain. We get invited to dinners and gatherings where I’m amazed at how successful these people are, but all they want to talk about is what skiing 100+ days a year is like, measuring snow at 5am on a mountain, and they dream to get in a Stowe powder photo someday. That sort of community and sport transcending wealth is what makes the stories of rifts at Killington so hard to fathom. It’s supposed to be this joint passion of the mountain community that doesn’t matter where you are from, how much money you have, etc.

It’s certainly not safe to pull the polling machine lever down with your mouth during a pandemic. If only there was another way, maybe, but I’d rather lick the ballot envelope instead of the lever if those are the two choices, ha. All joking aside, voting is fun to do in person. Feels civic. My parents still say my name comes up on the list of voters for Albany, NY despite the fact I’ve voted in Vermont for a decade.

I was washing dishes like 2000-2001 time frame? I then realized lifeguarding at Normanside Country Club was a better gig as a senior. No idea when Alteri’s closed but I think it was within 5 years or so after that? Barb and Lou were getting up there in age and the 80 hour work weeks I think were getting to be too much. Lou was at that restaurant from like 9am until 11pm every single day.

Nice, still 70/55 up here! South wind and cloud cover not letting us decouple at all and keeping a well-mixed atmosphere.

Fun community it sounds like....yikes. Either that or sounds like a high school clique online that is trying to make it sound like they sit at the cool kids table.

At the ski area, my best employees have been the J1 students and US college kids who know it isn’t a career and is only a temporary stepping stone. There’s a change once you get slightly older Americans working entry levels jobs in terms of work ethic and time they are willing to work. It certainly starts to get rougher around the edges the more disenfranchised a person is, and unfortunately working entry level in your later 20s and 30s in America does that really quickly to a person. Like this feeling that they are behind in society and will never catch up just seems to eat them alive. I’ve noticed that same thing working in hotels and restaurants, probably why drug use is so high in those industries among entry level positions. This disenfranchised attitude that “the system” is keeping them down, wages are too low, and the grass is always greener elsewhere etc.

Funny you say that, a friend of mine in Salt Lake City had an incident like what you and KLW seem to allude to... he found a used needle in his bathroom after a crew putting in tile floors left one day. He now has a family of Hispanics who roll up all together in a van, they’ll do literally anything as each person in the family has a specialty (lol) and they absolutely bust a**. He said the only time they stop is when the mom shows up at lunch and sets up a table of cooked food for them (which is awesome, folding table, crock pots, etc). They waste no time and if they only have two hours work left they will just stay and do it, instead of leaving to come back the next day. He just makes it sound like the work ethic is out of this world.