That snow will make West's season! 51 at Ascutney! Practically a whole winter of snow before Christmas!Quote:
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That snow will make West's season! 51 at Ascutney! Practically a whole winter of snow before Christmas!Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
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Holy shit, you aren't kidding. I used to ski there prettty often as a kid, had a season pass one year. It doesn't snow there as you seem to be aware. Get a couple inches on the hill, drive 5 miles to Windsor and they'd have a foot.Quote:
Originally Posted by BC13
Any idea what's going on there these days? Looks like just a t-bar and a rope tow down low lookers left where they had that beginners' chair, and nothing open up higher?
They just got the T together recently. The place has been down for at least a couple of years. They removed pretty much all of the infrastructure a while back and the place turned into an awesome mountain bike zone. Really really good. It's slowly turning into a ski area again, like you saw the lower mt is coming together now and it's good for uphill travel above that. When the snow is good it sees a fair bit of traffic, unfortunately that isn't often.
Seems appropriate for here
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Close but the proper pronunciation is - LawnguylindQuote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Been there a few times. Did see lawn guys. I think they were Mexican.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
Bet they looked mostly like this;Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...awn_jockey.jpg
ahhh childhood memories of visiting Grandmas house in Solvay NY.....gotta just kinda wonder about that generation. #brazilnutsQuote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
We related?Quote:
Originally Posted by Skidog
Its an NY thing.... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
This is Pelham I think. I can’t believe even the most biased city dweller would call this upstate but I thought you guys would appreciate it. The lesson is don’t use your phone as a navigator around the metro area. Big trucks don’t belong on parkways.
edit: It’s Mount Vernon apparently
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truckers have no F'ing clue when it comes to the Westchester parkways. can't tell you how many shaved tops I've seen over the years. this one was mild.
those WPA-era bridges were built like battleships.
That one is fairly new, within the last few years. They've been widening and replacing everything on the Hutch for a while now. My favorite is when they try to go in the center and it shuts the road down.
Something like this maybe- from April. I wonder what it sounds like when they hit. It’s got to be really loud, right?
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yessss. accordion roof.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
cartoonish.
One time I was driving over a bridge on Rt. 3 west leaving the Lincoln Tunnel and just outside the Meadowlands. I was in my 85 Golf, god bless that little fucker, with snow tires up front it was awesome, but at this moment I watched some sort of frame around an open walled trailer in front of me that I was, fortunately, tailgating, just detach and soar over my car and nail the Volvo about six car lengths behind me. It was one of those lucky moments.
Not upstate but always a classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw
Yellow beam is very solid.
Just make the bridge a smidge higher and 50% of the accidents would be avoided, Make it maybe one foot higher and 90% of the accidents would be avoided. But no, engineer that bridge to destroy any box truck that it comes in contact with.
I'm gonna guess, without looking it up, that when all tgat was laid out, box trucks and fancy travel trailers probably weren't an issue. Heck the internal combustion engine might have still been a ways off. And Google definitely wasn't routing people through there.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted
the bridge has a wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfol...treet_Overpass
long story short they did raise it as much as they could and it was only 22 hours after they reopened it that the next wreck happened.
Times change. Now Musk wants to burrow into the earth with tunnels.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted
That is certainly the case with the Hutch. It was built in the twentiesQuote:
Originally Posted by riser3
i was thinking they could dig down a foot to create some more clearance. but then we wouldn't have these videos.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
and was likely a dirt road and a horse & carriage route before that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
the Hutch is like a super highway compared to the BRP. haven't seen the completed work in Scarsdale, but that's never going to get straightened out too much.
Could watch all day!
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