First EuroBBI Thursday March 21, 2019

[Buster Highmen]

Val Gronda, skiers left traverse right off the top t-bar @ Disentis:


Skiers left is more in the sun, skiers right stays more shaded, so there will either be pow or corn

[Buster Highmen]

Some Airolo stoke.

If Andermatt gets stormed out, this place is a 2 hour train ride away from venduls place with a ton of super steep tree skiing, .

One day there, I saw a 6'+ tall buddy on Lotus 138s completely submerge in pow.

[2FUNKY]

I’ll sit on a train eating breakfast and drinking coffee to get me some of that!

[bw_wp_hedonism]

One other potential resource when looking at the mountains/freeride options is the FATMAP app.

[shroom]

land with wife in ZRH 3/14; fly out 3/25. rough plans to hit Lucerne, Sedrun, Zermatt.

[Norseman]

land with wife in ZRH 3/14; fly out 3/25. rough plans to hit Lucerne, Sedrun, Zermatt.

Word.

[hev]

I am eyeing flight prices and this seems very tempting. Maybe I can convince Foggy.

[Buster Highmen]

I am eyeing flight prices and this seems very tempting. Maybe I can convince Foggy.

65 chf /night sharing double including breakfast and dinner at mt-lodge Rueras/Sedrun, 300 feet to train station, 5 minute train ride to lifts less than 50 chk/day lift ticket. Do it.
Get LB and Yossarian in on the plan

pm vendul for room data.

[Buster Highmen]

Oberalpstock, hairball variation:


From Lars @basecampandermatt
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpUCD9-A...ecampandermatt

[doebedoe]

PS. Vendul is super rad person who will work you if your bank wants to charge you $40 to send a $70 wire for room reservation.

Stoked.

[2FUNKY]

PS. Vendul is super rad person who will work you if your bank wants to charge you $40 to send a $70 wire for room reservation.

Stoked.

Word. I ended up using western union, $10 charge.

[uglymoney]

This is all super awesome. Would love to have done this but alas was already committed to an airbnb in Big Sky that week well before this thread went live. Maybe BBI Yurp 2020. Fkna!

[wyeaster]

now that flowingalpy has flown it's time for you guys to bug him until he goes to europe for this awesome event

[Norseman]

I got fucked with a $50 fee at US. Bank for the wire transfer. And it took me two weeks and four tries to finally get it done.

Little local credit union wouldn't do it.

Big bank wouldn't do it on weekends, making it tough to align with my work hours. Also had to be done by the branch manager, who takes long lunch breaks. Bank system outage foiled me once, too.

Not impressed... glad it's done.

[Buster Highmen]

This is all super awesome. Would love to have done this but alas was already committed to an airbnb in Big Sky that week well before this thread went live. Maybe BBI Yurp 2020. Fkna!

Where for 2020?

Briancon might be a good location with access to La Grave (30 minutes), Serre Chevalier (right there), Milky Way (20 minutes), Queyras (an hour), Vars-Risoul (40 minutes), Puy St. Vincent (30 minutes), the Maurienne Valley (Val Thorens/Trois Vallees/Val Frejus/Val Cenis/Bonneval Sur Arc)

Or Bourg St. Maurice with access to La Rosiere/La Thuile, St. Foy, Tignes/Val d'Isere, Les Arcs/La Plagne/Paradisski, Trois Vallees ?

Both places would really require cars/vans.

Another more trainable option would be Gasteinertal/Mallnitz/Moetaller Gletscher/Val Gardena. Or stay around Zell Am Zee for Kaprun/Schmitten or Kitzbuhel/Fieberbrun?

[2FUNKY]

I got fucked with a $50 fee at US. Bank for the wire transfer. And it took me two weeks and four tries to finally get it done.

Little local credit union wouldn't do it.

Big bank wouldn't do it on weekends, making it tough to align with my work hours. Also had to be done by the branch manager, who takes long lunch breaks. Bank system outage foiled me once, too.

Not impressed... glad it's done.

My bank wanted the same. I said fuck that and went on the World Wide Web and finally ended up at western union. $50 to send someone my money with the few clicks of a mouse is highway robbery.

[Buster Highmen]

I got fucked with a $50 fee at US. Bank for the wire transfer. And it took me two weeks and four tries to finally get it done.

Little local credit union wouldn't do it.

Big bank wouldn't do it on weekends, making it tough to align with my work hours. Also had to be done by the branch manager, who takes long lunch breaks. Bank system outage foiled me once, too.

Not impressed... glad it's done.

Yeah, sorry, I should have mentioned Western Union. UBS might work too.

[Norseman]

Yeah, not a fan of Western Union.

Maybe I'll just hold my nose next time... but I disapprove of their involvement in nefarious shit like money laundering, terrorist financing, human trafficking, advance fee scams, etc. Dozens of WU agents have been complicit in various frauds. And customers can easily be blown off.

Thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole territory for me. Shrug

[Buster Highmen]

Yeah, not a fan of Western Union.

Maybe I'll just hold my nose next time... but I disapprove of their involvement in nefarious shit like money laundering, terrorist financing, human trafficking, advance fee scams, etc. Dozens of WU agents have been complicit in various frauds. And customers can easily be blown off.

Thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole territory for me. Shrug

Banks in general? Agreed.

[2FUNKY]

^ lol and beat me to it.

[bw_wp_hedonism]

Does Transferwise.com work from the US? Might be worth looking into as a cheaper option for sending money...

[Norseman]

Yeah yeah, the Man is everywhere, everybody sucks.

WU is the preferred platform of myriad fuckheads for a good reason.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/pres...ations-settles

Ok, I'm done thrunting here, sorry for the distraction.

[Buster Highmen]

Sometimes I feel like the best thing to do is just drop it and send some love.
Sorry for your hassle and respect for your position.

[Norseman]

Like sexting? Dicpics? I still have your cell number... stand by.

[Buster Highmen]

Like sexting? Dicpics? I still have your cell number... stand by.

OK, for that:
U.S. Bancorp, the parent company of U.S. Bank, was fined $528 million for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. Prosecutors said it failed to alert law enforcement to Tucker's suspicious banking activities.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news...nt-092818.html .