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11-22-2021, 03:56 PM #5726
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11-22-2021, 04:31 PM #5727Rope->Dope
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11-22-2021, 04:48 PM #5728
Lookin good in the HB beerhall! Have a couple liters and some wurst for me.
I still call it The Jake.
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11-22-2021, 10:10 PM #5729
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11-23-2021, 05:27 AM #5730
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11-23-2021, 07:02 AM #5731Registered User
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- Apr 2004
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- Southeast New York
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The Southern Tier is thankfully still a mostly unknown quantity. It's beautiful, uncrowded and has some of the best and worst markers of Upstate.
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11-23-2021, 07:08 AM #5732
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11-23-2021, 07:19 AM #5733
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11-23-2021, 08:03 AM #5734
Strange, when I was there we referred to the area as the Southern Tier. They even renamed Rt 17 as the Southern Tier Expressway. Oh well, all I know is it was a beautiful place to spend 4 years in college. Awesome ski town 20 minutes away, all the best weed, 9 hole golf course on campus with $1 cart rentals, some of the best mtn biking I have ever seen accessible right from my doorway, killer camping spots, etc. etc.
If you have never done a fall drive on Rt 17 (Southern Tier Expressway), you are missing out.
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11-23-2021, 08:10 AM #5735
Not to confuse this any more, but can anyone explain to me why Southern Tier Brewing is in Lakewood,NY on Chautauqua Lake?
Is Chautauqua Lake in Western NY? It is 45 minutes West of Bonaventure. Seems like if one of the nations best craft breweries thinks they are in the Southern Tier, I am going to trust them. Discuss...
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11-23-2021, 08:27 AM #5736
Southern tier is upstate
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11-23-2021, 08:35 AM #5737
Southern Tier has rez gas, smokes, blue tarps and great skiing.
Upstate.I still call it The Jake.
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11-23-2021, 09:42 AM #5738www.dpsskis.com
www.point6.com
formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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11-23-2021, 10:16 AM #5739
One of the more ass-puckering experiences you can have is to find yourself on a closed I-86/NY17 during a puking lake effect blizzard with only the faint taillights of two highway plows in each lane ahead of you, escorting you and a Volvo to the nearest off-ramp, as you cross the bridge over Chautauqua Lake.
The wind hits your car like a ton of bricks down the N-S lake as it steams in from Lake Erie with all that lake effect with it, kicking the 3' of fresh the plows are removing from the bridge straight into the air to the point you can't tell which end is up. You can't stop either cause there's two trucks behind you as well.
I've never been so happy to feel the other side of a bridge under my tires (still couldn't see).I still call it The Jake.
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11-23-2021, 10:20 AM #5740
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11-23-2021, 10:30 AM #5741
That is a picture well painted.
I also remember an 8 hour drive from Olean to Albany during a torrential rain that closes RTE 17 and most of the North South routes that could get me to I90. It was pre Google maps and I will admit I was pretty damned nervous hitting closed road after closed road weaving north. Finally got to 90 and made it through the Mohawk Valley narrow spot about 10 minutes before they closed 90.
The Southern Tier is dark and desolate and if one listens they hear dueling banjos and if you squints you can see Ned Beatty beside each weathered oak tree or fallen down barn.
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11-23-2021, 11:44 AM #5742
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11-23-2021, 02:01 PM #5743
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11-23-2021, 02:20 PM #5744
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11-23-2021, 02:23 PM #5745
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11-23-2021, 02:26 PM #5746
Thanks fellas, I can still see the scene in my mind like it was yesterday. Easily the most scared I've ever been behind the wheel. The bridge turns to the left when heading West and with how deep the snow was and how strong the wind was, all I could think was that I'd hit the massive snowbanks on either side and launch over into the lake and no one would be the wiser given the unequivocal whiteout.
I still call it The Jake.
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11-23-2021, 02:38 PM #5747
Something like this happened in Albany once. A dude went missing in the middle of a snow storm, never made it home. In the spring, months later, somebody eventually spotted his car upside down between a couple of elevated highways. Speculation is he went up and over a snowbank like a ramp, then got covered by more snowfall.
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11-23-2021, 03:36 PM #5748
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11-23-2021, 06:27 PM #5749skier
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11-23-2021, 07:04 PM #5750
You’re killing me
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