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    That is AWESOME!
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    If attraction-by-proximity worked, I would have been a lot more popular in my twenties.
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    @momskeeztoo It would be great to meet and ski with you; I can offer enthusiasm and good company if not skill. I can sometimes get up there on weekdays if that's when you ski. : historychris at yahoo dot com I was next in line this morning behind the PASR group. I said hello because I knew I wouldn't see them the rest of the day except screaming down trails visible from the lift. Sort of like being the little kid in the Mean Joe Greene Coke commercial except that nobody threw me a disgusting post-game jersey.
  5. SallyCat
    Nice meeting and chatting with you! I also met an older man, a skier, who said "NBD, but I don't have any toes because I was trapped in an ice cave for three days" I asked him how he balanced with no toes and he was like "yeah, it's not easy."
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    Ha, I heard the cowbell. I did Switchback and it was amazing to ski through ungroomed fresh snow. I've literally never done that before.
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    Started snowing around 4pm and the snow dramatically improved conditions, which seemed odd because it wasn't that much snow. But man, after 5pm everything just got better and better. I thought Widow Maker was the run of the evening in terms of snow quality, but then I did Challenge, and THAT was the most fun. Managed to get two runs on it before the ski patrol started shutting down parts of the mountain. I was there all day and I hated to leave.
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    Can't speak to challenge personally but people on the lift said it was good. No beginners here today to scrape it clean, I imagine
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    Oh, trails! Night-Weaver was scrapey, but main st and sidewinder are winners. Lazy is great fun. The terrain park trail next to Main st is closed for snowmaking. Paradise is only so-so. Lot of ice patches already. switch was fun but looks to be treacherous after some use scrapes the natural off
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    I'm here now. Arrived at 8 and am breaking for lunch. It's really good, though starting to get scraped a bit. It's been wet snow all morning but you can see and feel the layer of ice under everything. No crowds, of course. They are blowing snow in a bunch of diff locations. (We have exams this week; mine is tomorrow, but I don't have to proctor today, so I'm free to shred the blues in old lady style. I will stay into the evening because I like marathon days. Plus it's damn fun!
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    There are many, many ways to be smart. I think we devalue manual-labor professions and that's a shame. I know lots of kids who are hands-on problem solvers for whom a job as a mechanic or something similar would be an awesome fit, but lordy, if one of our kids didn't go the college route.,. I mean, how would that look!? I sponsor a school club run by a boy who is mad for bicycle repair. He and five friends find and rehab old bikes and donate them. The boy who runs the activity is an amazingly talented wrench and a good teacher to the other boys. I would hate to see him give up his passion and talent and major in psych or whatever
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    I used sarcastic italics. His annual bonus alone is more than I make in a year.
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    My oldest best friend was a history major. Graduated, did a Peace Corps stint, and then got an AMEX internship. Now he's COO of a hedge fund in Los Angeles. He makes a tiny bit more money than me, but I like my job a whole lot better than he likes his. I have a nephew who's getting his PhD in Korean linguistics at Busan National University largely on South Korea's dime. He was a gamer who got interested in Asian cultures in high school and just followed his interest from Japan to Korea and from mathematics to linguistics. He's going to have all kinds of opportunities when he graduates and he loves what he does. Almost any major can lead you to occupations you aren't even aware of in college. Unless you're on track for med school or engineering or something like that, it's not necessary to treat college as vocational training (though it's understandable, given the bonkers cost of a 4-year degree). It's often better to follow a genuine interest and see where it leads, because chances are there's a career niche to be had or made that will be satisfying and interesting as well as paying the mortgage. I'm not convinced that the world needs to keep churning out hundreds of thousands of business majors.
  14. SallyCat
    Thank you, that's very kind!
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    Ha ha, it feels that way. I have to keep reminding myself that this is season two for me when I see the PASR crew go screaming down Challenge at eleventy-thousand MPH whooping it up. I want to ski like that when I grow up. I have been drinking longer than any other PASR though, I'm pretty sure.
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    That's when I like to have a beer or two and then go back out, but just stay on easy trails and work on good form. Takes you out of your head enough to at least end the day with some confidence restored. Or if you don't drink, maybe just a skis-off break and some loud music. It's like a basketball session: never leave the gym until you've made a net-only jump shot.
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    False. From the Stevenson lift it's a pain in the ass hike to any other lift. Yeah, you can wait on line again, go to the top and take the stupid Ceasar/Marc Antony "trail" that 's just a narrow cat-track then to Honeymoon which is icy and full of beginners flailing around unpredictably until you get to the flat runout. It's an entire run that's just an annoying commute. The only thing comparable at Blue is if you park at the top, you have to skate across the Vista trail to get back to the upper lodge. Also heated bubble chairs > than gondolas. You don't have to waste time getting your skis off and on and you're still sheltered during the ride.
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    I'm trying to get better, so I stay out unless I'm hypothermic or my feet are in agony.
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    I stayed late today, and I saw some horrible things, man. I was sort of planning to goof around for a few hours and then quit about 4-ish and to watch the Saints game in one of the bars. (I don't have a TV, so a bar was inevitable anyway, so why not a bar that's skiing-adjacent, was how my thinking went). Holy cow. It was like some kind of Bat Signal went up at 11:00 and ten thousand people saw it and came to Blue Mountain. There was a huge line at the Main St. double chair and a MASSIVE line at the 6-pack.
  20. SallyCat
    I knew you weren't Salty because three seconds had passed and you weren't complaining about lift lines.
  21. SallyCat
    I'm well-liked, I think largely because I don't try to be cool. :-) I can't even tell you how often I hear that. Hey, we all bloom in our own time. In 12th grade I quit varsity b-ball and all my other activities and devoted myself to following the Grateful Dead as much as possible. Real good plan, right?
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    A lesser school would leave you to wonder what the stain was.
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    It's cool, I've joked around with them in class about it, so she knows I'm kidding. I also always identify anything I spill on their papers.
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    Gotcha; I was worried it might seem like I was making fun of students, etc. I actually didn't like history at all in high school. Got to college and had great profs and interesting courses and was hooked!
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    This student is lovely and hard working, and she does really well in class discussions, but has some trouble expressing herself in writing. She's genuinely trying, it just takes a long time to give feedback on stuff like this. I just took a picture of what I happened to be on the screen, btw; didn't think everyone would read so closely!
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