Here’s his letter
Attachment 322369
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Here’s his letter
Attachment 322369
The Eastern Sierra Avi Center just sent out a similar letter (email.)
I see the "cover your ass" virus is spreading everywhere.
So, I was conflicted about this for a while (could I justify getting out for a mellow tour). Up until yesterday or so, I could still get myself there. "I'll just ski with partners I've been exposed to already; I'll keep it mellow and in zones I know."
But Summit's letter: https://lift.opensnow.com/media-imag...5005281483.png
And the closure of established trailheads, and the Friends of CAIC plea, I'm convinced it's time to stay home.
Good call, I might keep it local and only ride something that I can see and access from my house by bike. Formulating a plan now.
It is a good time to get creative and learn how to enjoy your own neighborhood instead of driving 2 hours each way in traffic to ski something. Go out in the street and work on poppin wheelies or clean the garage.
Police trolling areas of PCMR and DV/Guardsmen and turning uphill traffic away. Probably ticketing downhill era who are caught. Now that stay at home order is in place in Summit county the powers want no more playing in snow
HRATS newsletter this morning urging folks to follow the MT Hood Natl Forest & Hood R Co restrictions
Locals can still bike to trails, just no parking or group congregating
In my neighborhood in pdx, I saw HS kids playing basketball when I was out on a bike ride. Dummies, but I do feel for all the kids who are like caged animals at the moment...
My life is on hold waiting for criminal court processes they’ve just decided to cease doing, indefinitely. I’m lucky (and thankful) I made bail. We supposedly have a right to a speedy trial. Rights like that aren’t rights without a society willing to defend them. Everyone in jail right now, arrested but not convicted — quite possibly completely innocent (like me), just sits indefinitely in a dangerous unhygienic hellish death pit waiting to get sick, or stabbed, or beaten.
Statement from FS and ski areas in the Front Range:
https://www.facebook.com/lovelandski...6663716042808/
It's a big deal. My SO is very close with her old judge who is the ranking county judge in our area and had to make the decision to close courts. She talks with him throughout the week.
I assure you, it IS a big deal and it is not being taken lightly. It's a tough situation from a law ethics POV, but also social ethics POV.
Meanwhile the brobrah who runs our ski hill was out lapping runs towing his buddies up the hill behind the work sleds and having a big party inside the closed ski area hanging out in groups in front of all his shafted customers hiking and skinning. Tracking up the hill towing with the sleds super fast while his customers have to hike.
I call him out on it and get banned from the property for 12 months for “disrespecting him and his staff”
So no ski season next year, basically, because we don’t really have bc here and I can’t leave town very often to go ski 100 miles away.
^ ^ ^ fuck that fuck. Sounds like Trump requiring governors to kiss his ring as a condition to getting fed assistance
Hey...covid 19’s serious enough to close the ski hill, but the staff will still be here hanging out getting drunk standing around in groups towing each other around with the work sleds like an episode of Jackass...and if you say anything about it we’ll ban you from the property for 12 months.
That’s Andrew Farron at Marquette Mountain if you’re bored and you want to call and tell him he’s an irresponsible asshole. Careful though, he’s been in a bubble of brobrahs telling him he’s god’s gift for a hot minute here, so if you tell him anything besides how amazing he is he’ll probably ban you and you’ll have to cancel that ski vacation to Marquette Mountain you’ve been planning all these years.
IAS, here in our county they are quietly releasing all non-violent offenders, FWIW.
We've had an extended and ongoing conversation about this among my b/c partners and have all agreed amongst ourselves not to go into the backcountry til this is over. Drove an hour earlier this week to skin our little "local" hill here in Maine but I do feel that that is borderline too much just based on the drive alone. Sticking to 5/10 biking, surfing, and yoga to loosen my frigged hips up and putting energy into neglected house projects.
I def think time outside, in the sun & fresh air, moving is still critical and moreso now. But this is not the time to get rad. Whatever a 3, 4, or 5 is for you is where you should be recreating at, and locally.
I thought surfing was carefree recreating for me as I've never come close to an injury doing it but earlier this week got cocky and impulsively high lined it above my buddy (only three of us within a half mile of beach) and ran right over him. He was fine but I was in a complete panic that I had just sent him to the hospital before it was okay. A reminder in humility and that surprises can happen anywhere, so act accordingly.
I've also tried to encourage folks who are getting out and getting after it (namely b/c they live in mountain communities) NOT to post about it on social to keep the FOMO down for as many people as possible. We're more of a community in these activities than many other segments of the population and have the opportunity & responsibility to set high standards for ourselves in this time that requires some unfamiliar types of selflessness (i.e. do nothing).