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Nine mile canyon in UT.

Those too, but in case you were serious, varnish is that dark coating to the rocks formed by minerals, a lot of petroglyphs were created by scratching away the varnish to show the lighter rock. Hot boater ladies were referred to as women in rubber back in the days of wet suits. Now dry suits are much less interesting.

Exhausting just looking at the photos. Lots of nice varnish though.

Bernard and Sons did a good job for us, we have a 12/12 pitch roof.

Those were amazing. You would sit and watch it and think how long it would take you with a t square and ink to do it.

Overhead transparencies with stick on colored films, press on letters, and those 1/16 inch wide colored tapes that were flexible enough to go around bends for corporate management presentations. Exacto knives and Kohinoor pens. One of my projects from the early 90s was to digitize our library of engineering drawings into AutoCAD. Some of the old drawings from the early 1900s were genuine works of art.

You can make data say anything you want. Liars, damned liars, and statistics. My experience, after 50 years of wearing masks and PPE in the industrial chemical industry, leads me to see the value in them. Although I do agree that cloth masks are worthless, and put electrostatic inserts in from the start of the pandemic TTFN.

Your chart appears not to be a NYT study, but rather created by well known anti mandate author Ian Miller, who said he based it on NYT data. If he massaged the data to get the results he wanted is unknown.

When my 1 year old granddaughter flew back to Sacramento after the Christmas holidays this year she got a case of Covid from the airport or plane. Fortunately, she was still nursing, and my daughter in law was fully vaccinated, which medical experts think will help, so it was a mild case. Also this Easter my sister in law and niece were supposed to come up from Philadelphia for dinner, but they both had Covid. Also vaccinated, so mild cases. And my niece in Maine came down with it last week in College. Although apparently the chances of getting long haul syndrome isn’t affected by vaccination. Cases in the area have doubled the past couple of weeks. Shame to spoil a good Colorado thread with this BS.

Christian college lawyer unqualified to be a federal judge passes a nation wide mandate to favor big business and put people at risk. Typical prolifer disregard of people’s welfare. Think it will stand up on appeal?

The beach?

About 8 inches in town yesterday, more on the mountain, stopped about 4PM. Bluebird today, people started lining up at 8AM for a 9 o’clock opening. Parking lot pretty full when we left at 11, probably 3 or 4 times as many people as over the weekend. I stayed pretty much on the groomers, my son took his Head Kores into the good stuff under the lift and off the Wolverine bowl. Low of 20, high of 33, unlike last week’s low of 34, highs in the 60s

Pic from today

Interconnect should be in operation this winter, base to base with a drop off at the top of the KT22 area. They think people will park at Palisades and go over and ski Alpine Meadows. Not sure who would want to do that. The old Hot Wheels fixed grip has been replaced with a detachable that brings you to the top of the Sherwood section, although that section is closed and you have to unload at a midstation where Hot Wheels used to end.

Record heat next couple of days, then cold again.

Visited my son and his family this week in Sacramento, now up at Tahoe City for a week. They will join us this weekend. Pretty quiet this morning at AM, back side of mountain is closed, still a lot open otherwise. 70 degrees at the base when I left around 11.

Bottom third of Switch was covered pretty well. They switched from the quad to the six pack a little after 10, so goodbye TCS. Widowmaker to Midway was pretty good, otherwise Paradise was the go to slope for me. They seemed to make the top of Razors a more gradual drop.

Lapped TCS and Razors until I left at 1. Coming from JF, I don’t need a lot of variety to keep me happy.

Was skiing Razors last week and a guy passed me tucking the whole run on orange Demons. Scary. Fortunately he stayed far to the left side and I always leave room for someone to pass me along the edge of the slope. Def doing over 70.

A little teeth chattering until about 10:30. Last week I was trucking down the last head wall of razors, and got far right in the shade onto some untracked solid frozen cord while skidding the skis, and literally went blind for a couple of seconds because my eyeballs were rattling so much.

I thought the run of the day was TCS. Smooth as a billiard ball going down to the orange room. Lapped TCS and Razors most of the day. Left about 12:30 when the snow was getting little mushy and my legs said they had enough. Days like this make me think I really do know how to ski (unlike yesterday when I was struggling).

It is an NSAID, but a newer different molecule. Has a longer half-life so you only need to take it less often than others. Of course be careful about NSAIDS (especially Tylenol) and alcohol consumption. I usually take an Aleve or Advil before skiing to keep inflammation down, and keep being a spry old geezer 😂