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Hey bro, if you want aggro lift line ethics, you gotta head up LCC. This is the kinder gentler resort up north where we put our boots by the fireplace upstairs while we take a poop downstairs.
This fucking weather is annoying me. As with most places, it's been a shit ski season so far. Minimal snow, skiing on rocks and stumps, etc. Then last weekend, winter finally arrived - a few good days of snowfall, and some great pow skiing (albeit pow skiing on top of a minimal base. But I can deal with core shots). Now it's -55° on the mountain, everything is shut down, and it doesn't look like lifts will turn again until Sunday at the earliest.
The snowblower lives! 2 days of penetrating oil and motor oil in the cylinder and then I used a breaker bar to turn the crank arm. After 3 minutes of brute force with the breaker bar it suddenly popped free. I sprayed some starter fluid into the cylinder, put a new spark plug in and it started on the first pull! I cleared my driveway off before it could reconsider if it wanted to run or not
Excellent! Maybe time for an oil change and then keep on cranking!
My autocorrect started correcting “we’ll” to well. Holy shit that’s irritating. I went and found the goddamn apostrophe on purpose goddamnit.
Due to popular demand we now have a thread for that. https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...ft-line-thread
The auto correct on my phone has been full retard for a while now.
It randomly corrects common words like "on" to "in" or "that" to "than" which are similar enough you don't always notice. But the sentence suddenly makes no sense.
But then it will fail to correct other words that are obviously wrong yet close enough that the correction should be obvious.
I spend more time correcting auto corrects than I do typing the message itself.
Power outages
when it’s unusually cold out
generator is loud as fuck
it costs something like $100/day if we run it continuously
lucky to have the generator, but i wish we had a below-grade power grid like a modern city, and a power company that didn’t prioritize seemingly everywhere else but our neighborhood when this happens
annoyed
The lifestyle of living off a generator on a temporary basis is a huge PITA. Over 600 hrs on ours over the past 8 years.
Would love to have buried power lines in my area.
I'm headed towards solar with a battery backup. The fridge and some heat are my only two needs short term. Haven't looked into size requirements and of course when in use and the sun is out that will add to available hours.
How much will that cost
Check out Lithium Iron (not ion) Phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries like Battleborn and a dual input battery charger, along with a decent inverter. If there’s no sun, you can charge batteries and power key items like boilers and refrigerator, etc with a vehicle. I was very surprised how little gas I burned idling my truck for 15 minutes intermittently over our last outage, Christmas 2021 for a day and a half.
I’ve since run a cable from battery/alternator to the bed of the truck and set up a power center for house, tail gating, camping, etc.
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These bullshit Insta-faceshots are the equivalent of the mtb “earth based kickouts” (props to Kidwoo). They all fucking suck.
Just turn your skis or bike and if you’re going fast enough and know how to turn and the snow is deep enough or the dirt good enough, cool things will happen.
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I mean, skiers have been doing this forever in front of cameras.