Ski

I was kind of wondering what that said before the edit...

But i thought it first!

I like Schif's idea, but that's the ONE thing the internet may have screwed up. Crested Butte used to have a Ski Naked Day on the last day of the season. But in the last couple of years, guys started showing up with video cams and selling it online. Same thing happened with the traditional Streak Night at Princeton University. But how would we know if it would get screwed up unless we tried? Hey, Zonked.....

I kept hearing how the chairlift was faster, as I carried her and two sets of skis up the hill over and over... Awesome day, though.

Tanner is 5'6" and 140lbs? Seems like the biggest trash talkers are usually little guys.

Missy and 'Dude have been pretty hard on him since the start of the season. They both felt he was doing more than just drinking. I'm pretty sure that's not the case, since the WC athletes are drug tested, especially after any substantial win. Alain Baxter, the first ever British skier to win an Olympic medal had it taken away for simply using the American version of an over-the-counter nasal inhaler (the British made version is fine, but the US version tests positive as methamphetamine). He faced being banned for two years to life from the sport by the FIS.

Huh? Dthmtl, I gave my opinion as a parent, coach, and sports fan. Bode is an amazing skier that has never wavered from his original tactic: ski to win or crash. The World Cup point system favors the skiers that win big or DNF. It was purposely designed that way. Bode spread himself too thin and after winning the first slalom, crashed in every one until the last. Bode genuinely roots for his "teammates" in an individual sport. That's not common. Austrian racers, because of fierce competetion just within the team, never give course reports to help other Austrians. When Bode and Darren tied on the podium, it was only Bode smiling. But the Bode on the Bus show showed him doing things just too over the top for me. That's not a wrong thing to express because it's my opinion. I think Bode is an *sshole for doing shots on camera hours before a race. Threatening to start a new tour is just plain stupid. The current World Cup has had financial problems. Resorts hosting a World Cup event must give free room and board to all racers, coaches, and officials. That's a huge expense that is often not offset by added fans, since races are run in peak season and they are booked full anyway. Bode had a terrific season. But he's no Hermann Maier. Not yet. Maier and other skiers like the Maher brothers, Marc Giardelli, Eberharter, and a dozen other have done what Bode did five times over. I just don't think acting like a prima donna is cool. That's why I'm a big Schlopy fan, too. Look what happened to Mosley when he went on the "I'm too cool for the World Cup" tour and started hanging with the Freeze crowd. He lost his edge. Finished fourth the next time around. And Bode's competition is much tougher than Mosley's was.

So the lesson learned is to never shove food down the throat of a dead guy, since it just won't work? Although I'm primarily a sports photographer, I shoot a lot of frat/sorority parties and functions. I caught so much crap from covering a sorority toga party at IUP back then. The girls were doing a drunken kick line dance and I never noticed they weren't wearing anything underneath. One of our lab guys sure noticed. Then my assignment editor noticed. Then the owner of my company noticed. It would have been great art had the girls not been so butt ugly.

Maybe '94 and '96. Five-year plan, eh?

The main company I freelance for does IUP's yearbook pics. I've done some homecomings there since the early 90's. The parade looked like the last scene of Animal House one year. I'm not knocking their academics; I know nothing about how good of a school it is. It's just that any parent of a high school kid seeing what I've seen would send their kid elsewhere.

Annually the drunkest homecoming of any college in the Northeast.

I love it when promotion comes before the product.

I've probably given 30 group lessons over the years when the ski school was overwhelmed and never even accepted a tip, so I figure they can look the other way. I did find almost four dollars in change under the lift today.

Ha, no, I try to keep it low key. I just act like I belong there. The difference with our hill is that nodody is out to file a lawsuit, since we all own it. And they didn't turn it on for me, they were doing maintenance, then left it running while they worked elsewhere.

Way over priced at $150. Probably won't sell and will be relisted: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...7147210476&rd=1

Jeff hit on her when I went to get my race bib...

Hey, my late wife was a bio-chemist that became a library director because I moved her to the northern Poconos. And she was a flag girl in high school that went to science camp. SCIENCE CAMP! Nerds do not get more nerdish than that. Atomic recently spent time with her...nerd chicks can be pretty hot. "One time at band camp..."

Six years and still sane. Congratulations.

You teach? Kids?

They have literally hidden the key from me. It's amazingly simple to run a lift...just climb up into the lower bullwheel housing and kick off the safety brake, then turn a key. And I can even make it run faster than they can.

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Hiked and skied at our hill this morning, then went back for a couple more runs and took a camera...still great coverage and any place in the Poconos could have been open today.

I think I read that in one of the last James Bond movies they set a boarder on fire as part of a chase scene. Something went wrong and he was killed, so they changed the scene to a burning skier for the final cut. Apparently boarders burn easier than skiers.