Recent content by Q*bert Jones IV

Stupid question but I can't find an answer online. I got a Jeep 4xE which has the J1772 connector. I plugged it in at a Chargepoint station and it was eminently straightforward. But then I went to another Chargepoint J1772 station and to my surprise the plug didn't fit. Then yesterday I...

You were riding your bike on Route 28 at midnight? That is categorically unsafe.

We unfortunately live in an age where it's impossible to separate the personal from the political. If I was in the market for new skis, what should be an utterly apolitical act, there's just no way to get around the fact that I have significantly less money and the product is significantly...

It's also simply not how the world works. If I want an apple, I give Hannaford's a dollar. They're happy with my money and I'm happy with my apple. Trump seems to live in a world where he walks into Hannaford's and demands that if he doesn't get an apple for free then he'll take a shit on...

Seemed like mostly old people resisting change :D I haven't been inside Overlook in years, at least since the avalanche. Right now, there's not really any reason to go. If they can repurpose it to take some of the strain off the overcrowded Discovery Lodge, I'm all for it.

The Hawk quad takes 11 minutes. The gondola takes 8 minutes. So if one person boards the Hawk quad but another skis all the way down to the gondola entrance and rides to the top, the second person will probably arrive first. I think I always kind of instinctively knew that but I'd never...

All lifts closed for the day. Safety first.

The founder/CEO of a prominent law firm died at Gore? His family is going to own ORDA by the time all the litigation is done.

It was about as crowded as Belleayre can be today. All lots full, people parking on the mid-mountain road past the ski-bridge. And yet, I never had to wait very long (thanks to the singles lines) and the slopes didn't feel THAT crowded. A few near misses with teenagers trying to break the...

Wow.

I'd totally spaced that today was a public holiday (Happy Year Of The Snake!) and was caught off-guard by the massive crowds.

I think you should be wearing a helmet in those trees :)

It's a loooong hike to get a short payoff. While it's probably my favorite place on the mountain, I don't know if it's for everybody. It was cooler when the whole of Cathedral Run was untouched and you had to jump over streams and animals and stuff. Now that the bottom section is groomed it's...

They're just a few miles apart, similar terrain, climate & co. Belleayre is run by the state. They have inarguably the best snowmaking in the region, capital improvements every year, season passes are quite reasonable, they limit the number of guests so that even on the busiest holiday weekend...

If you think ORDA is run poorly because it's state-operated and the capitalist model breeds accountability, I'd encourage you to compare Hunter versus Belleayre.