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Removed the clamps/wax paper and tape....did a little bit of sanding.....One side came out really nice...The other has a couple of small voids that I will have fill with some epoxy... But for not knowing what I'm doing I'm happy with the results....Cause I was really doubting myself when I was doing the glue up.... There are some other very minor issues but I figure they are going to get beat up anyway... Put the halves together and have a slight gap in the middle...maybe a 64th of an inch....Still have to do final sanding to close that up.... I guess I can order up some bindings now.... Sometimes you get great results when you have no clue what the fuck you are doing....

what about sitting in a camping chair on gravel next to a pee puddle? and yeah, for all inTents and purposes, that's like thiiiiis close to indoor dining in that photo.

if you're trying to avoid renting a car then powder/basin are not gonna be the easiest to do, logistically. you can technically take public transit to get to eden from SLC airport, but it would turn a 7-8 hour travel day into a 10+ hour day pretty quickly. You'd be going full multi-modal with a train to ogden then a transfer to a bus to get you up to eden. There's a free/cheap bus to powder from town every morning, and probably a paid shuttle to basin, but your food options are gonna be extremely limited without a car. for car-free skiing, you can't beat PC/deer valley. i've stayed in town in PC a few times and it's awesome, i just wish the skiing was a bit more like alta/snowbird/snowbasin. PC and DV have no shortage of awesome groomers with some pretty easy access to tree skiing if that interests you at all. not sure how much the PC downtown scene should really be a factor this winter, honestly. I'd be pretty ok posting up in a condo near powder mtn and just making breakfast/dinner every day given the current circumstances.

Do both.

Flew out west last week (4 flights if you count layovers). Everyone is wearing a mask, people are social distanced and the planes seem clean...(can't speak for frontier). Although the airports were pretty packed. I'm 99.9% sure that I'm staying east this skison. Just not feeling up to air travel again. A trip or two up north are likely. The allure of getting in my car and driving 6 hours to my destination is much more appealing to me this season than a 12 or 13 hour travel day, dealing with lines, TSA, shuttle busses, etc.

Nice sunset round tonight.

Epoxied everything in....What a fuckin mess....We will see what tomorrow brings......

For those wondering, this yielded 11 16oz jars of pickled jalepenos.

Why? Don’t you work from home? Or did you have to take out the papers and the trash.

All this splitboard talk sparked a memory of something I saw out in Montana...

They have poutine at jay peak and hard lemonade imported from Canada. Maybe you can visit @Ride Delaware ? at sugarbush or @moe ghoul at smugglers notch.

Wow, that sounds like my kind of place! Also I read online that they wont be implementing a reservation system.

Correct

He only likes skiing one mountain on ski trips.

Big bad frost

Jay should be relatively empty this season as many of their customers are Canadian and they likely won't be coming to the U.S. to ski. If you get to Jay definitely check out Burke.

Much as I would like to go out west with the air travel credits, hotel credit and Epic Pass I have - which would make it a close to free trip - I have yet to convince myself it makes sense to take on the risk of catching Covid via air travel for the greater joy of Western skiing. If I was ~20 and single like Salty it would be easier to decide to take that risk than being at higher risk (as a 55 yo man) and having 2 13yo girls I would risk leaving fatherless. May view things differently as things unfold and we get more data about risks of air travel - but that is where I am today. Hoping VT quarantine relaxes enough to allow me to go there and otherwise doing NH, NY and PA.

Fall weather is the answer year round. Crisp at night, warm during the day, and much lower humidity.

Figured the train thread is the most historical place for this.

Our raspberry bush has been producing like crazy this fall we’ve never had a second harvest from this thing and in the last two weeks we have gotten multiple pints from it. It was also a good day to cut some lines.

This fucking guy has some balls.

5 days of not picking.

Ski Alta and Bird at least. They're technically on the same ridge...right next to each other. You can even get a pass that let's you ski over to Alta from Bird and back. Then next year do a Solitude / Brighton trip...similar set up.

When I had chicken pox the neighbors brought their kids over to play with me so they would get it. I don’t think they do that anymore lol

Waterfall but hard to see Some pics around CB, not much color change yet and Smokey air but pretty hikes as usual. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m wearing an unzipped hoodie on my walk and saw people wearing gloves. No glove no love.

Are you going to make your own skins? How long do you think this project took?

Yeah, that's about 2x of what I paid in Italy last year with breakfast and dinners included. Stupid Chinese virus! Absurd prices too.

Witnessed a lady screaming at another woman this morning in acme because her toddler wasn’t wearing a mask........