"Scout" wrote in message
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OzOne wrote in message
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On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:47:21 GMT, "Maxprop"

scribbled thusly:

The rest of the world gets a rather distorted,
over-dramatized view of
America's gun issues. Oz must think we lurk in shadows,
holding our
defense
weapons in front of our bodies, constantly wary of
attackers. That only
happens in paintball arcades, to the best of my
knowledge.

Max


Max, I think you need to come over here and see just how
different our
lives are.

I doubt that you would find a single hotel concierge who
would tell
you that it wasn't safe to walk anywhere in our city at
night..even
our Hyde Park or Botanical Gardens.

I have been asked a number of times as I walked out of
US hotels where
I was going and had suggestions about which areas I
should not venture
into.

Come over...you will be enlightened

Oz,
Come to Atlantic City.
No need to worry about sharks and stingrays.
We inject them with random leftover bits from NY
hypodermics.
Calms them right down.

Seriously though, there's a lot of anger here in the US.
Can't you feel it in ASA?
We don't take any ****!
Have a great day motherf***er! ;o)


Yeah, just go to an Eagles game.

"Bob Lee" wrote in message
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Maxprop wrote:

Bob Lee wrote:

Maxprop wrote:

Walt wrote:

Maxprop wrote:

OzOne wrote:

I love the west coast. Spent a month there last year all around
Tahoe
but unfortunately it wasn't the best season there.

It wasn't the best season anywhere last year, sadly. I went to
Colorado
and experienced the worst snow I could ever remember. When I was a
pro
ski patrolman at Breckenridge in the Seventies, we typically had in
excess of 200" per season. Last year they'd had a bit more than
90"
by
the middle of February.

You guys don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.

"2005-06 was the first season since 1998-99 with more ski areas
having
above average snow than below. The Northern Rockies and Northern
Colorado
had abundant snow from the start, with Utah similarly blessed from
early
December and the Pacific States from the holidays onwards. Only the
far
Southwest suffered, with minimal natural snow before March." -
http://members.aol.com/crockeraf/seas06.htm

Colorado had record snowfall. Tahoe absolutely got *pasted* late in
the
season. Sorry you were't in the right place at the right time, but
last
year was a *very* good year (except New Mexico).

Could have fooled me, Walt. The snow was lousy and icy for the
entire
week
we skied. And there were bare spots everywhere. Were we in the
Colorado
of
a parallel universe? :-)

You were fooled - one entire week (or even a month) does not a season
make, Maxprop. Perhaps you should have claimed that it wasn't the best
week of skiing you'd had or whatever, but as Walt and a couple of
Colorado residents have pointed out, last season was very, very good to
Colorado (the *******s) and California. Your problem here is
projecting
from that one week to the entire season.

FWIW, I was skiing in Colorado as late as Father's day:
http://hyperion.usc.edu/~jrredho/Ind...6/100_0079.jpg

See my post to Let Mikey Ski It. I could have sworn it was last year,
but
it turns out we were there in 2004. Oh well.

Ah well, *that* is perfectly understandable. A little temporal
disorientation, after all who among us hasn't suffered from that? I
once thought I was like the Billy Pilgrim character from Slaughterhouse
Five and I kept revisiting various summers in my life, worried that I
might never have winter and skiing again.

My sympathies for having to expose your foibles to your better half.
Who knows what that will cost you over time - you'll be lucky if it's
only another ski trip.

Her last comment: "Europe on odd years, domestic on even years. Can you
handle that?"

Sheesh. I'm really going to screw up the plan and suggest we ski Canada in
'07.

Max

"Maxprop" said:

Majordomo brain fart, guys. When I looked at the photos from the trip
to Colorado, the date stamps showed 2004. I thought, "How can this be?
Did I set the camera wrong?" My wife overheard me and asked what I
was whining about, and she confirmed that our trip was two years ago,
not last winter.

Time flies when one is having fun. (Or facing incipient Alzheimer's, I guess.)

I get CRS sometimes too (Can't Remember S**t). If glodal warming has
indeed taken over the patterns, then it should be another great one at
Breck this year. You have to come back and ski the new Imperial lift -
it changes the whole Breck expert experience. And this year, there is
new terrain open south of the Lake Chutes (Snow White?). I am already
getting a woody thinking of those long steep pitches on a good powder
day.

Mike...

--
See my ski photography and Breckenridge photo ski blog at http://Powderday.us
Carpe powder-diem!

Let Mikey Ski It! wrote:
I get CRS sometimes too (Can't Remember S**t). If glodal warming has
indeed taken over the patterns, then it should be another great one at
Breck this year. You have to come back and ski the new Imperial lift -
it changes the whole Breck expert experience. And this year, there is
new terrain open south of the Lake Chutes (Snow White?). I am already
getting a woody thinking of those long steep pitches on a good powder
day.

Mike...

Must be that CRS kicking in. It's the Seven Dwarves but Snow White is
close enough.

snoig

"Let Mikey Ski It!" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" said:

Majordomo brain fart, guys. When I looked at the photos from the trip to
Colorado, the date stamps showed 2004. I thought, "How can this be? Did
I set the camera wrong?" My wife overheard me and asked what I was
whining about, and she confirmed that our trip was two years ago, not
last winter.

Time flies when one is having fun. (Or facing incipient Alzheimer's, I
guess.)

I get CRS sometimes too (Can't Remember S**t). If glodal warming has
indeed taken over the patterns, then it should be another great one at
Breck this year. You have to come back and ski the new Imperial lift - it
changes the whole Breck expert experience. And this year, there is new
terrain open south of the Lake Chutes (Snow White?). I am already getting
a woody thinking of those long steep pitches on a good powder day.

I worked Breckenridge for two seasons, and we never had any powder like that
in your photos. Must be nice.

I taught a couple of avalanche seminars at Jackson Hole while I was
patrolling at Breckenridge, and got to ski at least one day each trip. Both
trips had the sort of fluff that billowed over one's head in turns. I
thought I'd died and gone to Heaven. That was about as good as it ever got.

Max

Maxprop wrote:
... If
being conservative and a traditionalist means I'm mentally ill, so be it.


Nope.

Being conservative means believing in principles & values,
and sticking to those principles & values even when they're
not convenient & easy.

Question: what is the proper term for a person who claims to
have traditional values, yet wants to be nannied; who wants
to take all the benefits of a high level of social
organization yet pay for none of it; who wants to suppress
other citizen's rights yet claims he is promoting freedom &
liberty?

DSK

"katy" wrote in message
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Maxprop wrote:
"Scotty" wrote in message
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So? I was around when Kent State happened. I'm not
afraid
of college campuses.

SV


You should be. The way colleges charge for credit hours
these days is
highway robbery. g

Max


That's for sure...Mr Sails pciked up 6 credit hours this
past
simmer...at the post grad level....wow....

didn't his school reimburse him? Lisa's does.

Scotty

Scotty wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
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Maxprop wrote:

"Scotty" wrote in message
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So? I was around when Kent State happened. I'm not

afraid

of college campuses.

SV


You should be. The way colleges charge for credit hours

these days is

highway robbery. g

Max



That's for sure...Mr Sails pciked up 6 credit hours this

past

simmer...at the post grad level....wow....


didn't his school reimburse him? Lisa's does.

Scotty



A little, but not even half....

An asshole? A liar? Certainly not the president of the United States!

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"DSK" wrote in message
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Maxprop wrote:
... If being conservative and a traditionalist means I'm mentally ill,
so be it.


Nope.

Being conservative means believing in principles & values, and sticking to
those principles & values even when they're not convenient & easy.

Question: what is the proper term for a person who claims to have
traditional values, yet wants to be nannied; who wants to take all the
benefits of a high level of social organization yet pay for none of it;
who wants to suppress other citizen's rights yet claims he is promoting
freedom & liberty?

DSK

DSK wrote:


Being conservative means believing in principles & values, and sticking
to those principles & values even when they're not convenient & easy.

Question: what is the proper term for a person who claims to have
traditional values, yet wants to be nannied; who wants to take all the
benefits of a high level of social organization yet pay for none of it;
who wants to suppress other citizen's rights yet claims he is promoting
freedom & liberty?

"Republican".

HTH. HAND.

//Walt