sibhusky

Our heat is OFF until my rage at being cold overcomes my husband's penny pinching. I think we're around 62-65 in the house by the end of the day. Colder in the AM since our nights are in the 30's now.

I went to realor.com (http://www.realtor.c...66_M43834-90294) and went to the map and asked for nearby listings. If you back up the zoom it looks like the whole neighborhood is for sale.

I got a vest from EpicSki and they are SAYING they will pay for the domain hosting. Don't have that check yet. As to the resort paying me? That MIGHT be nice...if they like it... But, they may be pissed I've used their maps without permission and they may also not like I am showing stuff not on the map and some stuff even "Out of bounds". Plus, all I need is the locals to know who is telling people about some of this stuff!!! Thanks for the vote of confidence, tho.

So, a place to crash for that amount of money that close to a ski area? Such a deal!

Well, the place itself looks acceptable and if you're using it as a ski home, you don't care about the schools. Didn't check to see how far this was from various ski area.

For more stoke, check out the site I'm putting together about Whitefish. I started it as something for EpickSki, but it grew (still under construction, expect broken links) like crazy and I set up a new domain for it. http://www.wmr-guide.com

http://www.poconohomesite.com/Listing/ViewListingPhotos.aspx?ListingID=1101267226&ShowCompact=false&Preview=false&new=false&LastTabIndex=-1&BackEmailID=-1&BackEmailTypeID=NONE Some church received this as a donation and they just want to unload it QUICK for the money.

http://www.epicski.com/t/74019/help-desk-pc-tech-in-vail-co

So, what's your dream? Are you living at home rent free these days or something and that's the "afford to" part?

Hmmm..better start stacking more logs...

Well, it wasn't that cold here last year. And even though we had a lot of snow arriving early and staying late, it was heavier than usual because it was warmer than usual. It was an ODD year. Even this summer there hasn't been a night warmer than the low 60's. It's like we're still waiting for summer. Tonight will be in the 40's.

I seem to remember one season at Camelback getting 94 inches of natural snow. I don't know what normal is.

Well, I hope it's right, but how accurate has this guy been? Also, if you read the link, it doesn't sound COLD and here we need COLD to kill off the spruce bud worm that is DESTROYING our trees!! Two years in a row and if a third summer is like this, my house will be surrounded by dead trees.

Well, when it was first mentioned in Epic, I thought it was in Co. I was surprised when I saw it was Moonlight today, but it's posted in that thread. I guess I should have titled it, "So, you want to live out West.." Reading the initial topic, it was clear the job was in Montana.

It's now posted: Job at Moonlight

I found here that the difference of lift speed between using Chair one and using the 4-5 combo (which NEVER has even one person waiting because it's only open during holiday times, so everyone forgets about it) meant a line had to be at least 8 minutes before it paid off to go to the 4-5 combo. And even then, it didn't really pay off because there's no foot rest, so your circulation is getting cut off while you sit forever. We almost never have an 8 minute lift line here. The result of those kind of crowds when translated to the Ant Hill at the top is reminiscent of Camelback's Honeymoon Lane at 2 PM, so I usually leave not because of the lift lines, but because I like more elbow room on the hill these days and can't stand the sort of "gang skiing" that occurs when a large family all decides to inexplicably cut en masse from the right side of Big Ravine to the left side all at the same time.

Yeah, how many runs will that even FIT on? I was wondering about here and none of the steep runs and maybe only three areas would have the right topography for the thing.

Oh, yeah, I can get that output, I do it in either KML or GPX and suck it into Google Earth if the adventuress is on the move. However, for skiing it would be useless as the transmission is only every 10 minutes. It would keep showing me going up the chair again. LOL! See the topic "Siblet looks for turns at Logan Pass" to see the kind of output it generates. Go to Post #3 for the gpx output of the route. (Blue line). Things labeled "track" are KML dots.

So, how often are the points stored? Just curious. I use a SPOT tracker with my daughter, and "drift" due to weather and angles (we're pretty far north, so there are extended periods when mountains block transmissions from the SPOT for hours) causes sometimes EXTREME anomalies and I've found her 'tracks' on the wrong side of cliffs (assuming the track was received at all). I realize that you are not transmitting, only saving, but aren't there issues with satellite connectivity? How many satellite does the smartphone or a normal GPS receiver need to connect to before it has enough info to determine where it is?

When Siblet was in the desert two summers back, she was the only one in the camp with a working cell phone because everyone else had smartphones, all different service providers. That was with the LG5500. I recharge my phone less than once a week and it's not because it's run out, it's because the battery is down to two bars.

So, did you have people ski these runs to give you tracks? Or did you just overlay Google Earth with the resort trail map or what? For instance, why is something like Back Nine represented with a zigzaggy line, when actually it's an AREA and there are such dense trees you'd be unlikely one day later to find the same line as you did the day before? And how do these lines work in reality? Just looking at the Lower Inspo, Lower Expressway, Bad Rock, area, nothing seems to line up with any trail system. I'm just wondering what the application does in a situation like that? (I don't have a smartphone, I want my battery to last all day.) .. and a lot of the resort has no cell service -- how does THAT work? I think the cell tower is on radio tower peak there and if you are in the shadow of some cliff or down a gully or anything line of sight, you have to wait to get a signal. Don't users find lots of dead spots when they are using this? Or is there something in the smartphone that overcomes the cell service issue? (Like I said, I don't own a smartphone...)

Wow, just looking at more discrepancies. Larch is marked as black on this map and is right by Powder Bowl, but on the trail, it is where Corkscrew is and is a blue and Corkscrew is the next opening over...It's like someone in the office has never looked at the trail signs as they go down the hill! Quite confusing! I'll have to check things out right there, but all my friends and I refer to the areas as they are marked on the signs and not as marked on this map. And, of course, we have lots of areas not marked on the map... Crazy. I don't know how you can do what you are doing! What happens when a user goes down the area between Big Horn and Gray Wolf on the map? How does it get counted? That would be "Super Mario" to some people and it is clearly a double black in fact if you don't watch it you'll be in a world of hurt because there are cliffs. (Sibby doesn't ski there, but Siblet does...)

I just checked two paper maps here. The one for last year says it's a black, the one from the year before calls it a blue. Nothing changed in the interim. I'll have to ask them about this. It is sort of hairy to ski because it's narrow and a sustained pitch that makes you increase speed steadily if you don't control it. It's for the "slalom skis", that's for sure! However, the pitch is equivalent to a beginner hill! I see the bit about "snowmaking ponds" on the maps. Nuts. Just informationally, not to make your maps different than the trail maps, here is the "advanced" area around the ponds, taken from the exact spot, looking "up" and "down". In the area BELOW the ponds is the beginning of Good Med. Does the pictured area look advanced to you? Below: In the pic above, if you look at it full sized, you'll see the ponds are closed off. The pitch until them is pretty much non-existent, then along side them it's just a short dip, then you're in Good Med. Unfortunately, I don't have pics of 1000 turns, you don't dare stop there as there is no way for anyone to get AROUND you. ...Maybe that's why they made it a higher level...too many gapers traversing in snow plows? I used to use it a lot before I ran into illegal uphill travelers too many times, plus people descending from the trees above it into the trail. Another trail there are differing opinions on is Heaven, marked blue on the maps but black at the top of it when you're on the slope.

Also.. Also the "Advanced Snow Making Ponds"??? HA. Since they are PONDS, they are definitely closed and dangerous. The area around them is not really advanced and is just the lead in to Good Medicine. 1000 Turns is an Intermediate unless you made it Advanced because it's narrow and there's people dropping down in front of you from above sometimes.... Where'd you get this stuff from?