Tahoe '24/'25 - This Thread Shall Not Be Privatized!!

[powdork]

Pretty cool the natural selection tour is heading to Kirkwood this year


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[Core Shot]

he can deliver to a trailhead or ski area near you

Girl in my highschool had twelve toes

I wanted to suck them. Didn’t happen.

There are actually a fair number of people with extra digits.

[powdork]

New tool for alpine in the fight



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[Wobby]

No one here bitching about the rain crust? Damn I wanted to get a feeling for BC conditions

[frorider]

What rain crust?

[SnowMachine]

The kids should stay in school, go to a good college, go to dental school, and ski a minimum of 4 days/week for the rest of their lives. Not counting the month in Europe every year.

Year around? Because that would be impressive!!!

I tell my kids to be firefighters. Best gig ever. Everyone loves you. Work a few days, commute home and play a few days. Perfect for outdoor lovers.

[~mikey b]

New tool for alpine in the fight



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they’ve long had a truck mounted Avalauncher - nothing new

[soul_skier]

Year around? Because that would be impressive!!!

I tell my kids to be firefighters. Best gig ever. Everyone loves you. Work a few days, commute home and play a few days. Perfect for outdoor lovers.

This was the guidance I needed when I was 18, not that I'm sad with how my life is turning out but in hindsight this would have been a path worth exploring seriously.

[bodywhomper]

Firefighting is a tough and demanding job with a shortened life expectancy. Many peeps may not do well at it as a career, though WFF was (and sometimes still is) something my oldest kid considers.

I work with or otherwise know several retired urban FF’s. They joke about how many quality years they have left in their life. One is not yet 60. They also talk openly about the number of people that have witnessed die while they are trying to save their life and some of the instances of severe human abuse that they’ve had to witness and navigate first hand.

I know one who gets to occasionally work from a skidoo, which are his favorite days of work.

[m2711c]

dental thief's nabbed by eagle-eyed cop…

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/art...t-19989033.php

book ‘em danno!



fact.

[frorider]

Both suspects are 68 years old. One is from Hillsborough, and the other is from San Francisco. One of the suspects purchased a home in Incline Village in 2018 for $1.7 million, public records show. Both suspects were formerly licensed dentists in California, the Reno Gazette Journal reported.

Gold

[old goat]

Hey, what's life without a little danger.

[fomofo]

FAFO

Actually let’s stay tuned and see what comes of this.

[SnowMachine]

Firefighting is a tough and demanding job with a shortened life expectancy. Many peeps may not do well at it as a career, though WFF was (and sometimes still is) something my oldest kid considers.

I work with or otherwise know several retired urban FF’s. They joke about how many quality years they have left in their life. One is not yet 60. They also talk openly about the number of people that have witnessed die while they are trying to save their life and some of the instances of severe human abuse that they’ve had to witness and navigate first hand.

I know one who gets to occasionally work from a skidoo, which are his favorite days of work.

It's very regional. My buddies that work around the lake have it pretty damned good. My brother in law worked in SF. He's medically retired with full pension at 52. He just had a knee replaced. PTSD is a real thing for a lot of them, too.

That said, I've been a mechanic since I was 15. My body hurts and it doesn't help doing what I do for fun. There is no pension. I've been very fortunate to own several businesses, but that's high stress, too. I love/hate my current gig. It allows me a ton of freedom and very good money, but I've been doing it long enough that I kinda hate cars.

My wife is in finance. That's the gig, but I'm not that smart. Maybe my kids will get that from her. She sure as hell paid the price in public accounting early on.

Life, right? I would have preferred being a trust fund kid. I would have skied a lot more in my 20's.

[SnowMachine]

dental thief's nabbed by eagle-eyed cop…

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/art...t-19989033.php

book ‘em danno!



fact.

Bahahaha. You can't make this stuff up.

[powdork]

They have to be getting off on the risk. Otherwise why go back to a place where you know they’re onto you and when apparently the money means nothing.


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[powdork]

I got a finance degree and had a job starting with Shearson Lehman (I think that was their name at that point) in the winter of 89. But then brokers started jumping out of windows in October and all of a sudden I was back in restaurants and shortly after ended up being the F&B director for a fairly distinct Florida country club. Didn’t matter since during high school and college in Florida I caught the ski bug.
If I had ended up with a day job in finance I doubt I would ever be in this god forsaken maggot ridden hellhole


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[hercule33]

Declining attendance at schools has been a major issue all over the country since Covid. We really fucked up our kids with how long we kept them out of class, despite the science saying they should have gone back.

On the other hand, kids aren’t going to school when sick like they used to, so that’s good.

So true. Ironically shutting down schools quickly was done to protect the children with the idea being that they may be more susceptible to COVID just like the Spanish Flu. Once that was found out not to be the case, there is no excuse for the slow reopening which did so much harm that no one wants to talk about it.

Now let it snow!

[Thesystemsplit]

Too much talk and not enough skiing in this thread...so here's a cruiser run in hourglass

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDnfP...NmeTR3eW9hMGc2


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[Dark Energy]

If this is still the correct thread for stoke, here are some tracks from last Sunday up on the Summit.

[Skeeze]

Surprise KT opening and about 6 laps of hot pow until it got chopped, way exceeding expectations.

[frorider]

No pics but Eagle was good this morning at the wood.

[~mikey b]

Surprise KT opening and about 6 laps of hot pow until it got chopped, way exceeding expectations.

right on

[SnowMachine]

Surprise KT opening and about 6 laps of hot pow until it got chopped, way exceeding expectations.

Yesterday was way more fun than expected. We skied Alpine from 9-noon and lapped KT until close. We got Chute 75 on opening and were treated to superb snow. It was pretty amazing how well the mountain skied yesterday.

My legs are smoked.

[Skeeze]

Yesterday was way more fun than expected. We skied Alpine from 9-noon and lapped KT until close. We got Chute 75 on opening and were treated to superb snow. It was pretty amazing how well the mountain skied yesterday.

My legs are smoked.

Wrote my report before the afternoon openings hit and there was a whole new batch of hot pow. Red Dog Ridge, Rock Garden, Dead Tree, Chute 75 were all great. Legs smoked indeed—3 Tower 16s and 15 KT laps (plus a few groomers) for my first day of the season and I’m feeling it this morning.