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Thread: The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

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    Quote Originally Posted by gravitylover View Post
    A friend that lives a few minutes from the base of West said 24 at the bottom and up to 30 up top. I saw a pic of 51" at the top of Ascutney and another somewhere near Owego where the guy opened his garage door and the snow was a solid wall up to less than 2' from the top of the doorway.
    That snow will make West's season! 51 at Ascutney! Practically a whole winter of snow before Christmas!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BC13 View Post
    51 at Ascutney! Practically a whole winter of snow before Christmas!
    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.

    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?

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    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.

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    Seems appropriate for here

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    Longguyland. One word.

    Usually slurred.
    Close but the proper pronunciation is - Lawnguylind

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peruvian View Post
    Close but the proper pronunciation is - Lawnguylind
    Been there a few times. Did see lawn guys. I think they were Mexican.
    Kill all the telemarkers
    But they’ll put us in jail if we kill all the telemarkers
    Telemarketers! Kill the telemarketers!
    Oh we can do that. We don’t even need a reason

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    Quote Originally Posted by Core Shot View Post
    Been there a few times. Did see lawn guys. I think they were Mexican.
    Bet they looked mostly like this;


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    Quote Originally Posted by huckbucket View Post
    Bet they looked mostly like this;

    ahhh childhood memories of visiting Grandmas house in Solvay NY.....gotta just kinda wonder about that generation. #brazilnuts

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skidog View Post
    #brazilnuts
    We related?

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    Quote Originally Posted by huckbucket View Post
    We related?
    Its an NY thing....

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Brownski View Post
    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.

    cartoonish.

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    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.
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    Not upstate but always a classic.


    Yellow beam is very solid.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by muted View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by muted View Post
    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.
    Times change. Now Musk wants to burrow into the earth with tunnels.

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    Quote Originally Posted by riser3 View Post
    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.
    That is certainly the case with the Hutch. It was built in the twenties

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    Quote Originally Posted by ötzi View Post
    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.
    i was thinking they could dig down a foot to create some more clearance. but then we wouldn't have these videos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brownski View Post
    That is certainly the case with the Hutch. It was built in the twenties
    and was likely a dirt road and a horse & carriage route before that.

    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.

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    Could watch all day!


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