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12-28-2021, 06:38 PM #1201
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12-28-2021, 07:46 PM #1202Registered User
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"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
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12-28-2021, 07:47 PM #1203Registered User
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Is there still limited overnight parking next to the OVL? I know it used to be allowed but I’m seeing otherwise on PTOV’s website.
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12-28-2021, 08:10 PM #1204one of those sickos
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Holy crap, traffic is fucked. It's a parking lot from Incline to Echo. Kingsbury is also stopped. We went over 431 to get home to Carson.
Yes, it's crazy deep but light and fun. Zero instabilities noted, including directly on top of a ridge when dropping cornices.
Tomorrow should be even better.ride bikes, climb, ski, travel, cook, work to fund former, repeat.
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12-28-2021, 08:57 PM #1205
Leave the Tesla home. No juice. Or milk either for that matter.
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12-28-2021, 09:00 PM #1206
22 Blue - Looking ahead to the New (aka Fuck Summer (aka Tahoe Thread))
Even sometimes when I'm snowboarding I'm like "Hey I'm snowboarding! Because I suck dick, I'm snowboarding!" --Dan Savage
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12-28-2021, 09:07 PM #1207
A Tesla idling uses no to extremely little battery. An ICE is burning gas the whole time. Having to heat changes the equation but electric still comes out ahead.
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact...-idUSL1N2RW0QD
A typical stationary electric vehicle (EV) with full battery could likely run its climate settings and electronics for “at least a day, probably many days”, Howey added.powdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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12-28-2021, 09:18 PM #1208?
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12-28-2021, 09:24 PM #1209
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12-28-2021, 09:28 PM #1210Even sometimes when I'm snowboarding I'm like "Hey I'm snowboarding! Because I suck dick, I'm snowboarding!" --Dan Savage
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12-28-2021, 10:04 PM #1211?
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Ok because 80 has been closed for so long. People are trying to get west any way they can
And the trucks trying to go east keep jackknifing and closing the lesser mountain roads
I don’t really remember 80 being closed this much. I question it. It seems to be a shift in tolerance rather than extraordinary conditionsOwn your fail. ~Jer~
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12-28-2021, 10:34 PM #1212Registered User
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When I’ve talked with SAC forecasters they always seemed pretty aware of what’s going on at the resorts. I don’t known if that’s through official channels or backchannel though. Also keep in mind that conditions can be pretty different between resort and BC even with similar terrain (due to snowpack differences from mitigation, compaction, etc.).
Enjoyed the country club experience at SB today. I-80 back open in both directions now though, prepare for the hordes tomorrow.
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12-28-2021, 10:36 PM #1213
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12-28-2021, 11:07 PM #1214
^^^ now THAT'S how you use a roundabout! 360 degrees of efficiency
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12-28-2021, 11:13 PM #1215
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12-29-2021, 12:34 AM #1216
^^ I think they were dealing with a ton of downed trees on 80.
Dang I wanna ski but I'm sitting this one out until it loosens up. Call me when they open the Spur.
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12-29-2021, 12:42 AM #1217
https://www.2news.com/townnews/highw...fb0c5a705.html
Everybody is looking for a shortcut home. Just read about these folks that thankfully, didn't end in a case of
"Death By GPS." They tried to bypass the I-80 West closure in Verdi and took Jacks Valley Rd until they got stuck.
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12-29-2021, 12:42 AM #1218
I'm always drunk. I just said that the details start to fall into place because access to information is the key to good avie forecasting. So if the avie forecasters have problems getting it, it makes sense that the forecast is not quite accurate.
And I don't know whether you've noticed, but the European alps, pyrenees, tatras have a country and a region or two as well....
The slf is simply the gold standard. I wasn't trying to look down on the glorious us of a, I was kinda shocked really. But as I noticed in the fwt thread you get a bit defensive easily.It's a war of the mind and we're armed to the teeth.
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12-29-2021, 12:51 AM #1219
I’m thinking you guys don’t need to argue
that would be betterI didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
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12-29-2021, 01:00 AM #1220
We have excellent access to information. The avalanche centers do use the resources of ski area patrols to the best of their ability. That ability is limited by time constraints and the fact that ski patrol only have access to information on areas that have been controlled all season, making their info of much less value.
And I'm sorry but if you just take the time to look at a map you'll see North America has at least 2-3x the mountains of Europe.
Here is British Columbia and Alaska
and at the same zoom level, all of Europe' mountains except the nordic region
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12-29-2021, 01:10 AM #1221
I'm only bringing this up because I found it earlier for another thread, the lower 48 has about 43 people per square km, Switzerland has 220. And Alaska has 0.48 people/square km. It's far from the whole story in this case too, but it matters and I think it's useful for considering some of the differences in how many data points are collected for forecasting.
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12-29-2021, 01:18 AM #1222registered abuser
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Sorry folks, we’re closed…….the moose out front should have told ya
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12-29-2021, 01:44 AM #1223
^ha. Just saw a post saying if you left Placerville now you would get to Disneyland 20 minutes quicker than you would get to Tahoe.
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12-29-2021, 01:50 AM #1224
22 Blue - Looking ahead to the New (aka Fuck Summer (aka Tahoe Thread))
powdork
I love you man
but recently you have been coming off as an asshole and a know it all
sorry to say that
you’re not wrongI didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
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12-29-2021, 02:07 AM #1225
Google Maps has been doing this for years. I witnessed an elephant train of cars crawling up a side-cut bypassing part of Northwoods in Tahoe Donner, with everyone trying to get to a dirt road off of Skislope that (according to Google) connects with the Donner Lake interchange, thus bypassing the 80-west closure (which Google falsely assumed was only in effect for the 3 miles between Truckee and Donner Lake); oh, and also, the dirt road it was sending people to isn't even driveable in the summertime; needless to say, during that blizzard their route would have been very tough trailbreaking, and certainly not in a vehicle.
I use Google Maps to plan bike treks, and it frequently tries to shave miles by sending me onto routes that (as sat-view confirms) are at best ancestral dirt roads. Even in the Bay Area, where lots of Goog employees live, their maps will try to send cyclists out onto "roads" that are literally fenced off from public access.
This is nothing new; driver beware.
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