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texasdago

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  1. 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...
  2. 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.
  3. Yes, Ortisei. Santa Cristina and Selva further up the valley and less expensive but all within easy reach of each other
  4. I'm sure I can speak for Chris when I say, "you're welcome"
  5. 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.
  6. But not full mayhem in the middle. It is a controlled closure in that the police maintained the middle. Who said the 00s?
  7. BTW, here's how APD "closed off" Halloween in 1988. It was not a full closure...
  8. 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!?"
  9. Y'all just grabbing rando model runs?
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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/
  13. Yeah its gorgeous...
  14. 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!
  15. 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.
  16. Arch going to bring us Unknown Pleasures
  17. Hear me out. Late 80s / early 90s I remember traffic on the Dirty 6th. Yes, it was a party street but never felt truly out of control. I feel like 6th street truly got dirty once they made it pedestrian only and it made it easy for people to congregate... specifically randos who come down to hang out in the middle with no intention of spending any money in the clubs/bars. So, if you make it harder for people to just show up to party in the middle, you theoretically eliminate some of the issues. As someone else said, east 6th east of 35 and west 6th don't have the same issues and the streets are not closed. It's not as dumb as you might think.
  18. Playing around with GoPro. Let's see if this loads. We spent a lot of time farting around with jumps... Taos.mp4
  19. Quoting myself but this is what you want... again, you may end up in a small group of 1-2 people. I don't know. I'm not familiar with the crowds or vibe at Whitefish but that's what my gut tells me based on experience. My solo experience at CB was during a spring break soooo... you never know.
  20. I was just coming to post these guys, too... https://www.youtube.com/@StompItTutorials Now, I don't know about Whitefish and their ski school but I'm a big proponent of taking occasional lessons to work on technique. You can get paired with a group that is blue/black. Odds are that low season lessons you may end up with the instructor and maybe 1-2 other people, if that. Even half a day might help you. Case in point... I signed up for a full day "group" lesson at Taos last year and I went to the highest possible class level. I ended up going through the class by myself with two amazing instructors (different one in the afternoon). Same thing has happened to me in Taos. Much better strategy than going for a private lesson.
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