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11-29-2020, 11:36 AM #626
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11-29-2020, 11:47 AM #627
More welcome in Montana?
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11-29-2020, 11:59 AM #628
Blasphemy. I hate Texans.
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11-29-2020, 12:13 PM #629
I missed a chair on a powder once at Created Butte, and the locals started giving me shit, they told me “to go back to California”. I then told them, “go back to fucking New Hampshire”.
Must have been a good guess, because they stfu.
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11-29-2020, 12:49 PM #630Registered User
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11-29-2020, 06:24 PM #631Registered User
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11-29-2020, 06:43 PM #632
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11-30-2020, 11:45 PM #633
I was 12 or 13 the first time I went up the T-bar at the Butte. I thought I was going to piss my pants. The liftie was merciless, "Back of the line!" "Green means go, lady!" It felt like the greatest achievement of my life that I wasn't ridiculed by an angry mob.
Back on topic, now that Polis and the first husband have Covid, any guesses on how long CO has left? I'm guessing once reporting data catches up after the holiday weekend, things are going to get real quiet around here.
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12-01-2020, 08:20 AM #634
First brush with the reality of the season up here last week. Some dude was sick and went to at least two different establishments between Monday and Wednesday, got his positive test result back Thursday. Result was four places retreated to 'to go' orders only for a week while contact tracing is being completed.
If we're lucky that's how the season will go, restaurants shut down for a few days while the lifts keep turning.Last edited by ticketchecker; 12-01-2020 at 08:45 AM.
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12-01-2020, 09:08 AM #635
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12-02-2020, 12:44 PM #636
Here are results of an interesting poll regarding skiing resorts and backcountry skiing in Colorado during Covid. My take? Females aren't willing to take as much risk.
The bc stuff was interesting, though not surprising.
Interest in Backcountry Experience and Safety Preparation
The survey measured skier and snowboarder interest in experiencing the backcountry for the first time. Among all respondents, 62% said they had skied or snowboarded in a backcountry area before and 38% had not. Among the 38% of respondents that had not experienced the backcountry, 17% (50 total respondents) said they had a strong interest or plans to experience backcountry this season.
Among first time backcountry respondents 42% said they planned on buying avalanche safety gear and taking an avalanche safety course. Twenty six percent said were only planning on taking the safety course and 12% were just planning on buying safety gear. Sixteen percent of respondents plan on doing neither.
Among the 62% of total respondents that had experienced the backcountry 37% had taken a safety course and purchased gear. Another 20% had safety gear but had not taken a course, and 13% had taken a course but did not have safety gear. Just under one third of respondents, 29% had not taken a safety course or purchased safety gear.Last edited by Jax; 12-02-2020 at 03:13 PM.
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12-02-2020, 12:48 PM #637
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12-02-2020, 03:14 PM #638
Though my typo disproves that to some
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12-02-2020, 11:05 PM #639
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12-02-2020, 11:11 PM #640
Old news Jax. Wimmen are definitely smarterer than menfolk in the the backcountry. There's longstanding data that Ian McCammon (who brought heuristic traps into the avalanche awareness conversation) that supports this, from almost 20 years ago. Just thought I'd mansplain that to you
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12-03-2020, 12:23 AM #641
Understandably. It does kill about 1/300,000th the number covid does on an annual basis so i'm askared too.
But seriously it depends on the survey group, and what they meant by 'experienced the backcountry'. A large number of that 29% probably went out once with or without borrowed gear and then decided not to pursue it furtherpowdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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12-03-2020, 12:37 AM #642
Probably closer to 1/10.000th, but yes, har har.
Certainly many of those people's "experience" is limited to a roadside XC ski, or a little meadow skipping, but it amounts to the same issue with covid, being that one person's recklessness is perfectly capable of ruining everyone's day, or potentially killing someone.
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12-03-2020, 10:32 AM #643
Yes I've known this regarding female bc skiers. I should have been more succinct in my wording above. But thank you for the Ian McCammon reference nonetheless, that's a good one to revisit at this time.
That survey was much more skewered towards alpine resort skiing wrt covid and my take from that brief survey, even just reading the comments, was the ladies tend to emit a little more concern regarding the virus, so I assume they accept less risk even in just a resort type of environment. I should go further and say, the older women...some of the comments from the younger gals were just as stupid as the guys'.
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12-03-2020, 02:35 PM #644
These differences between men and women are true in many areas. When I used to teach surgery residents it seemed to me that the men had more confidence than ability and the women more ability than confidence. I like seeing women pilots when I fly. Statistics show women are safer drivers, especially when it comes to fatalities. But I still don't want to be behind a woman at a 4 way stop.
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12-05-2020, 10:40 PM #645click here
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Make space for skis in your secret hookers/blow hiding spot.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-...ce-of-ski-gear
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12-05-2020, 11:11 PM #646
I've heard they have dogs that can smell ski boots, even if they're in the trunk. Might be worth trying to mask the smell with large quantities of weed or heroin.
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12-05-2020, 11:26 PM #647
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12-06-2020, 09:53 AM #648
Nothing in the trunk but a dead hooker. You may proceed sir.
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12-08-2020, 06:27 PM #649
They never opened, but
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12-09-2020, 09:09 AM #650
In Alberta, "Close contacts are limited to household members only", and gyms and sports teams are closed/banned, but ski hills remain open for now, but it seems like their buildings need to be closed.
Seems strange that the hills are still allowed to be open and I won't be surprised if that ends soon too given the weekend lineups we've been having.
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