TGR week in review

[BmillsSkier]

Ok, so, posting on a Wednesday was bad enough. Now Tuesday is the new Friday? Is nothing sacred? There are rules.

It was more following up on last week’s review.

Never get out of the boat people.

[DBdude]

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...d.php?t=315220

that was interesting

shaking head...

wtf...

[BmillsSkier]

I don’t care what day of the week it is, the way things are going this week.



Coincidence? I think not.

[riser4]

I don’t care what day of the week it is, the way things are going this week.



Coincidence? I think not.

???

Failboat?
Ship has sailed?
Shipping out?
Ship it?

???

If there's a name printed on the boat I can't make it legible on my phone.

Oh, now that I am quoting it I see that the link has EF in it. You gotta include just a little bit more when you post like that.

[BmillsSkier]

I’ll do better next time.

But like the EF, who went down 42 years ago this past Friday, you never know if there will be a next time.

Strange days around here. That’s for sure.

[Danno]

I didn't get the boat pic either.

[GeezerSteve]

Holy fuck, it's been 42 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk? I remember that like it was yesterday. It was big news in Great Lakes country. A college bud, an ex-merchant marine, lost a good friend when she went down.

[Kenny Satch]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'gitche gumee'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
T'was the witch of November come stealin'
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'
Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya
At seven pm a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it's been good t'know ya
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searches all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters
Lake Huron rolls, superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
In the maritime sailors' cathedral
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call 'gitche gumee'
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early
Songwriters: Gordon Lightfoot

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[iceman]

When the gales of November come early, aren't they just the gales of October?

[BmillsSkier]

We’ve even got a thread for it that was on pg1 up till a day or so ago.

-Its-said-she-never-gives-up-her-dead

Ice, I think the reference was to the bad gales used to come closer to December - closer to when the locks would close for the season.

[BmillsSkier]

I've got a busy day tomorrow and have checked out this week so I'm posting 30 minutes early.

Jimmy "Burl Ives" posted some pretty damned funny male model pics.

Something happened to Mtngirl but I can't read through 35 pages to find out exactly what.

Timberridge is tired of the 911.

I'm not. (the fucking GT 2 debuted this week as the quickest car EVAR!!!!)

Nog time bitches.

People in Bobby's world can't park.

[alias_rice]

Pretty slow week overall. Not much happened.

[NW_SKIER]

Ball sack photos scarred me for life.

[TAFKALVS]

Ball sack photos scarred me for life.

As if you haven't gazed at your own for hours.

[Bromontana]

Virtue signalling is contagious

Also, respect for fellow man isn't needed when you're teaching morality. Condescension and repetition are adequate to engage.

[::: :::]

Ballscapes scarred me for life.

FIFY

[NW_SKIER]

As if you haven't gazed at your own for hours.

You got me

[ill-advised strategy]

Holy fuck, it's been 42 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk? I remember that like it was yesterday. It was big news in Great Lakes country. A college bud, an ex-merchant marine, lost a good friend when she went down.

We had a huge storm this year....30+ feet on the buoys.

2 people drowned getting swept off the edge of what's normally a pretty good sized cliff


same spot during the storm:




haven't been posting in great lakes surf stoke thread out of silent protest....but here's some more of that big day. It was real tough to find anywhere to get out, and not great anywhere. I watched the spot in the vid with the guy in the vid for a bit before heading to work, and ended up going out for my 3 waves closer to home later. It was manageable in the water, but so much wind, even in the shelter, that I ended up tying my board up in the swamp and coming back for it instead of trying to walk it upwind back to the house.
Next day could have been epic, but the best spot was on lockdown with the body recovery police scene. Everyone still did OK at other spots...

[BmillsSkier]

We had a huge storm this year....30+ feet on the buoys.

2 people drowned getting swept off the edge of what's normally a pretty good sized cliff


same spot during the storm:




haven't been posting in great lakes surf stoke thread out of silent protest....but here's some more of that big day. It was real tough to find anywhere to get out, and not great anywhere. I watched the spot in the vid with the guy in the vid for a bit before heading to work, and ended up going out for my 3 waves closer to home later. It was manageable in the water, but so much wind, even in the shelter, that I ended up tying my board up in the swamp and coming back for it instead of trying to walk it upwind back to the house.
Next day could have been epic, but the best spot was on lockdown with the body recovery police scene. Everyone still did OK at other spots...

I grew up on Lake Erie. I don't surf. Cold water annoys the shit out of me. But I COMPLETELY understand that.

To me it's no different than growing up skiing shitty, small resorts, or learning the aquatic life on a crappy inland pond. The juice is there and it gets you.

[GoldMember]

Thread bitching about the MODS turns into ski-slutting photography. Isn't that the reverse of most thread degradation?

[abraham]

I grew up on Lake Erie. I don't surf. Cold water annoys the shit out of me. But I COMPLETELY understand that.

To me it's no different than growing up skiing shitty, small resorts, or learning the aquatic life on a crappy inland pond. The juice is there and it gets you.

Fuck dude. Skiing got me based on xc skiing from walking until 10 years old. Then I got into dh lift serve. I'm still not good but shit's fun as fuck.

Plus the hills here are taller than 100ft

[Timberridge]

I got new snowtires yesterday.

[SB]

Climber Joe gets good mag award for ski hookup.

[BmillsSkier]

I got new snowtires yesterday.

I missed the thread asking which ones you should get.

That would have been a welcome debate given this week around here.

[shroom]

Ball sack photos scarred me for life.

Kenny finally flipped on us?