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Typical freeheeler….. doesn’t want to fuss with bindings! I step off trail and find a tree or snowmaking shack to piss behind. I’m lucky to be at a point where my kids are fully functioning/independent skiers. Most of my days are half days. I have totally adapted to booting up at the car and...

*full disclosure: I live and ski in NH and have not even entered a lodge since March 2020. I make sure my necky is pulled up when in the corrals or around people. What are other people wearing? What is being enforced (either by mountain personnel or courtnof public opinion/stink eye)? Did you...

I understand all that. But the fact of the matter is….during the early days of the pandemic when there was a shortage of surgical masks, there was a big effort to increase production (both by businesses as well as home seamstresses) to make cloth masks. So MANY people are using cloth masks, but...

Do you not feel that a neck warmer pulled up over mouth and nose qualifies as a mask. It’s not as good as medical style or n95, but many people are using cloth ear loop masks. If the material is the same, don’t you yhink it’s adequate?

I mean…..you are considering a move to New Hampshire, seemingly because of the pandemic……isn’t that permanently altering your lifestyle?

Pro tip: never relocate to somewhere because of your perceived notion of the ideals of a place. Once your boots are on the ground, complexities you didn’t game out will present themselves. But yes, NH.

The social fabric comment was intended to extend the scope of the conversation beyond strictly Covid, because we were well on our way before Covid, before Trump, before twitter. All these things have merely exacerbated the situation. It goes way beyond moralizing related to covid. I did not...

Devil’s advocate here…..what schools are vaxxed 100%? And what schools are “locking down”? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/16/us/politics/colleges-covid-coronavirus.html The psychological effects you are feeling are a result of the tearing of the social fabric and the smashing of the social...

One of the great things about style and flow is that it gives you something to aspire to without necessarily having to huck your meat, or carry terminal velocity in order to shave fractions of a second. It’s impossible to quantify, hard to articulate. But it’s some combination of confidence...

Is it just me or does it seem like more often than not in the the northeast we get rain during the Xmas>NYD period AND a deep arctic freeze for MLK weekend? Feel like it plays out this way at least every other year.

I’ve said it before…..the ski industry sold people the “dream” for 3 whole generations….the trope of the dude with the phd washing dishes at night so he can ski every day. The fact that we went along with it has helped suppress wages. I was a pro patroller for 11 seasons. Started at...

The process of hunting for a scarce resource is indeed primal, even if it is hoarding tp from walmart in March 2020.

A lot of these are due to having to coexist in a space you love with your own species. A slow group ahead of you or an annoying behavior you are bearing witness to doesn’t count. Hunting and gathering activities…..very primal.

Original answer better, but hey, what if some off map glade learned a new trick or two from some other skier and then “improved your experience”?

Probably been discussed, but what are other sports where people participating in it ahead of you degrade your own experience in a way similar to skiing? For context, any activity can be hard to enjoy when so many people are doing it simultaneously. But with skiing, so much of the desirability...

The mannerisms, actually. He is a bit of a ham. But if I must play your game, I’d go with the glasses.

When the monoskiing resurgence finally hits the mainstream, this feature will be considered a design flaw.

The dorky looking guy in the cowboy hat is Kenny Vaughn. He is a telecaster master. This was from Marty Stuart’s variety television show, which was never on my cable provider’s package and which doesn’t exist. Highly recommend going down the rabbit hole. Some incredible playing, done with casual...