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05-16-2018, 05:46 PM #201User
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05-16-2018, 06:51 PM #202
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05-16-2018, 07:28 PM #203
I remember that steamy August day, you come home and opened the mailbox and THERE IT WAS - the September issue. I wouldn't even open it until the evening, settle in and read that 1st issue INTRO that set the tone for the upcoming season..
http://thepowderintros.com/season-passes/25
http://thepowderintros.com/archive
This season was the first I didn't subscribe since I can remember..
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05-16-2018, 11:46 PM #204
We should also look at the fact the dumb fuck bean counters at the parent company thought it would be a good deal to kill the contract with the main distributor that got the rag into the various newsstands and super markets. Way more people bought single issues then subscribed, so next thing all thats left is the dedicated core subscribers and the last two clue less editors alienated them by pushing personal agendas that had nothing to do with skiing. I always considered Reddick the guy that kept the soul of the mag in tact, but the last few years its been obvious that he is just doing whatever it takes to please the corporate guys to save his own job. The only way to save the pub now is if they higher someone with the knowledge of the history and culture of the sport and the balls to stand up and say fuck you to the bean counters to make a better vision of the mag succeed.
Pat, While I have had a ton of disagreements with you over the past, I has always admired your dedication to the sport and keeping it real...
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05-17-2018, 12:06 AM #205
I'm 38, have lived in the PNW my entire life and have spend the last 20 years of my life dedicated solely to capturing deep powder images. I am not a GW denier, but I call bull shit every time I see someone claim it just because they have had a low snow year or a few ( in Tahoes case). Both of my parents where very well respected scientist in there fields, so I have always had a lets look at the true data installed in me since as long as I can remember. For example, in a five season stretch from 1976-1981 the ski area average yearly total at Baker was only 431 inches with an all time low of 277, (similar to what tahoe is now experiencing) that goes in stark contrast with what everyone I know says they remember it being deeper as kids. If you look at total snowfall for the same decade, the total was 7142 inches. The only decade that has so fare come close to that much snow is the current one.
Another important fact to note, Baker always has measured its snowfall at the base which is more accurate. Most areas measure snowfall at the top where it is way more impacted by wind etc and easier to bias towards a higher number. Looking at the cold hard numbers there is ZERO statistical facts that support the fluctuations in our season snow totals are due to global warming. I have no doubt that mankind has an impact on our climate, but I have a huge issue with people using statistically outlying years as evidence of our impact. At the end of the day, I am sure we have an impact, but statistics have so far shown that is very negligible, and with all of the environmental laws past over the last 40 years, it should make sense that we are actually seeing and improvement.
At the end of the day the whole global warming thing is looked at by most people as either the glass is half full or half empty, I'm just saying you should get a graduated cylinder out and fucking measure it, and do it again and again over time and see what the facts are actually saying before you blame everything on it.
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05-17-2018, 12:41 AM #206
Most snotel sites do not have data prior to the late 80s. and most do not have data prior to the early 2000's
SWE basically just measures cumulative density. It only maters at the end of the day if you care about how much water is going to fill or over flow your revisors. Its not much different that walking outside and measuring the total snow base. Case in point, every year, I ask the old guys in Japan how much snow do you get each year, and they always tell me 2-3 meters. They base that number on how high the snow banks are. For a skier that is totally irrelevant when I measured for my self that they got a meter that morning and another meter the night before. When you are skiing know one cares about how deep the base is once most early season obstacles are covered, only how much fresh you have each day. Seriously when you check the snow report in the am, do you. give a damn about the base, or just if they got 2", or 12" or 24" overnight?Last edited by Gunder; 05-17-2018 at 01:50 AM.
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05-17-2018, 01:55 AM #207?
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I could not get through much of this thread.
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https://www.theskijournal.com/Own your fail. ~Jer~
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05-17-2018, 06:25 AM #208
I left you a link to a discussion of the Wasatch (by competent scientists) in the context of a paper (published by competent scientists) that evaluated the data across the Western US and found a 9 percent decline in snowpack over the preceding decades, with the effects much more acute at lower elevations. The authors explain that this has occurred because it rains more and snows less than it used to, leading to this result.
Local skiers, patrol, and avalanche forecasters can all tell you about how they didn't used to figure out the stability of rain crusts in midwinter in the Wasatch. Now, it pisses rain to the top of Alta at least once every January and the base elevations of Snowbasin and Park City don't hold any sort of reliable snowpack at all.
I'm not trying to be Mr. Doom and Gloom - I'd much rather be perma-stoked on how rad things are. But this is the world we are living in. And you and I are young enough that we are likely to live long enough to see things get worse.
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05-17-2018, 08:24 AM #209Registered User
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Every time I look at the overnight snowfall, I look at a snotel site to see the SWE. SWE can tell you a lot about how that 2", or 12" or 24" is going to ski. I found it particularly useful when I was living the NW cause we all know that 16" overnight skis like 2" if the storm leaves hot, thus increasing the SWE......
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05-17-2018, 12:22 PM #210Registered User
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To be clear. Grant was involved with the creation of The Ski Journal and is a strong contributor ( we wish he would submit more often ). Gunder has not been on staff at The Ski Journal for many years.
* Gunder does not represent The Ski Journal * Disclaimer.
/goes back to lurking .
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05-17-2018, 12:41 PM #211
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05-17-2018, 04:44 PM #212
FFS....... please stop talking about Tahoe, you clearly haven't been paying attention. We had one of our largest precip years EVER the season before last, but there still wasn't as much snow at lake level as there used to be during an average season. It's fucking warmer (FACT), which is why the average snow line is higher (FACT).
Paging maggot 2_1_3 to the white courtesy phone. Actually, he won't be bothered with this nonsense I'm sure. Here's his paper: https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs...EI-D-17-0027.1
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05-17-2018, 04:58 PM #213
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05-17-2018, 05:05 PM #214?
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I grew up on the north shore of Tahoe. My history an perception is from the 1960's till now.
I remember when there was no moss on the rocks in the lake.
The Tahoe basin goes though wild weather pattern swings that have in cases lasted several of our life times.
Read up on the trees that grew in the base of Fallen leaf lake.
without much thought, I remember waking up to 4 feet of fresh in King Beach. And it melting within a month.
I remember good years where it seem the sun always shined but there was a snow pack till may in Incline.
I remember one year when it rained / snowed rained/ and the skiing sucked the entire year.
And then there were the cloud seeding wars of the 80's - when snow started getting profitable.
Fun fact. The Tahoe basin was almost completely clear cut around the turn of the century. there are many pictures as evidence. - nothing really natural about the placeOwn your fail. ~Jer~
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05-19-2018, 08:33 AM #215Registered User
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I haven't read all of the posts here, just kinda skimmed the last page. But measuring snowfall totals is not an accurate method of tracking GW. It's generally accepted that as average temperatures rise there is more evaporation, leading obviously to more precipitation. Recording snow lines and depths is surely a better method of tracking any kind of warming cycle.
That said, you SLC mags should probably be more concerned with your own microclimate than with GW as a whole.
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05-19-2018, 10:42 AM #216Registered User
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Has Powder magazine been ruined by covering how The Denver Post has been ruined?
"Skiing Just Lost Its Daily Beat Reporter
After 21 years covering the ski industry for the Denver Post, Jason Blevins walks out amid mutiny in the newsroom"
https://www.powder.com/stories/inter...beat-reporter/
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05-20-2018, 07:23 AM #217Registered User
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yeah
this is something to talk about
the guy had no problem getting the inside scoop with in depth quality reporting, from broomfield, denver, to the far corners of the state of colorado the guy was on it like flies on shit, he seems to have a connection everywhere, internet bloggers, nightly news, and modern day internet news media bullshit....... well it's all garbage and half made up skimmed face book posts regurgitated, this guy actually got out there and talked to people, imagine doing something originally like that, in doing so he wrote some of the best stuff that paper published
when the shit went down I noticed his articles were no where to be found, I was/still am bummed
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05-23-2018, 12:05 PM #218
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05-23-2018, 12:09 PM #219
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05-23-2018, 12:18 PM #220
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09-25-2018, 05:18 PM #221Registered User
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Climate change isn't a Republican Vs Democrat issue, dumb ass. Think of it more as an "ignorant dumb-ass who should have paid attention in chemistry class" vs "any half reasonable objective thinking decent human being thing".
Seriously, what don't you believe about climate change? Do you think CO2 is not a by-product of combustion? Tell us then, how this is wrong, please: (it's burning isohectane, i.e. gasoline)
2 C8H18 (g) + 25 O2 (g) à 16 CO2 (g) + 18 H2O (g)Do you doubt the physical/thermal properties of CO2 as they relate to atmospheric conditions? In your imaginary world, does CO2 no longer absorb IR light and help keep our planet warm? Did you know if it didn't do that, the temperature of the earth would be on average 60 degrees F cooler?
Do you doubt research that shows higher levels of CO2 in our atmosphere than ever recorded or measured in the last 800,000 years? (source: https://www.climate.gov/news-feature...carbon-dioxide)
DO you think a bunch of scientists got to together and made up a big hoax to trick the world into having clean air and water?
With all my heart, I hope you never get to enjoy a powder day again in your life. I hope the fleeting feeling of weightlessness as you bounce between turns in thigh deep champaign powder only remains in you as a fading memory of times long since past. I hope you never get to feel the exhilaration of the human body moving with a speed and grace through billowing pillows of snow unattainable by our current evolutionary path.
In summary, you suck. You are a terrible human being. You are the living embodiment of all that is wrong in the world.Last edited by ExPowderSnob; 09-26-2018 at 08:56 AM.
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09-26-2018, 08:38 AM #222Registered User
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09-26-2018, 10:23 AM #223
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09-26-2018, 12:07 PM #224
Blevins is awesome. Fuck the Denver Post. Fuck all the Denver news outlets including 9 news and Westword. They all suck.
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09-26-2018, 01:56 PM #225
seems he is still out there writing @ a new outlet: https://coloradosun.com/author/jason-blevins/
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