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texasdago

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  1. He does a great job of explaining everything, providing context and not hyping things up. Chikage is good, too.
  2. Friend of mine sent me a picture at 10 AM local of the info board/monitor at Winter Park. -17 degrees.
  3. Nah, its just snow. Honestly, snow is no big deal... especially since we warm up during the day. Ice? Yeah... ice and freezing rain is the real threat and that should not be the case this year. 2023 suuuuucked.
  4. Weather apps suck. They are terrible. Use your local forecast or NWS. Apps are often using data from private companies and some of those suck. Follow someone local. In your case, Avery Tomasco is actually very good despite being aggy. As of 2 hours ago...
  5. I see a lot of people oneline bitching about the new experience and, as best as I can tell, they were the ones that would go down and just hang out and not go in and patronize bars or clubs. \Womp womp Good.
  6. Yes, Ortisei. Santa Cristina and Selva further up the valley and less expensive but all within easy reach of each other
  7. I'm sure I can speak for Chris when I say, "you're welcome"
  8. Looks like they're trying to go up against the beginning of SXSW. Went to Waterloo for an in-store performance by Billy King and the Bad Bad Bad. Strongly recommend. These guys rocked out.
  9. But not full mayhem in the middle. It is a controlled closure in that the police maintained the middle. Who said the 00s?
  10. BTW, here's how APD "closed off" Halloween in 1988. It was not a full closure...
  11. Ultimately some variation of 1980s/early 1990s 6th has to be better than trying to manage this cluster all the time... in defense of the police, that's not easy to keep policed properly. By the way, this is hilarious... ("Austin is too libr'l now... we used to not be like this" - no CR!?"
  12. Honestly, this reminds me of a conversation with an instructor in France back in 2018. We spent three days together with him mostly guiding me around Les Grands Montets and doing some teaching here and there. Anyway, on our first day, we went off piste to a back bowl and as he watched me ski, he said, you need to get off of those skis. The next morning before we took the first lift up, he took me to our ski shop, got me off of what they had given me and onto Black Crows Orbs (which I later purchased on my own and ski today - you can see them in my video above). What does this mean? Go with the half-day or full-day lesson I recommended and as you work with the instructor during the day and they see you ski and your goals, then ask what type of gear you should be using. Like @PRONG HORN after a run or two of "adjustment" my skiing completely evolved and we were skiing up on the glacier the next day. Gave me a lot of confidence and was the starting point of me becoming more aggressive as a skier even in my decrepit age.
  13. Muleshoe eh? I can smell that picture from here. Actually here's the ironic thing... this is a winter barn in the alps. Right in the middle of town. It smells like Muleshoe.
  14. If you do go to Val Gardena, this is a great place to eat outdoors on a beautiful day... https://www.baitaciampac.com/ another great location in Alta Badia which is just over a mountain pass from Selva https://www.jimmihuette.it/en/
  15. It all depends what you want to do in the mountains but yeah more to do in and around Bologna. When you go to the Dolomiti, go take the two table cars from Ortisei up to Seceda. Beautiful!
  16. I think you just have to do a better job of idiot control. That is key. Will APD do that. At least the crowd will not be as spread out and maybe less harder to police.
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