I'm pretty sure that's the best concert I've ever been to in my life. I love love, I love being in love.
For the other NYCers there, extremely complicated feelings that the libs were eliminated tonight during the concert.
This time they are not disclosing price. The Belleayre resort plan fell through, so the idea here is that some new investor will come in to use the permits to rebuild highmount as an extension of Belleayre with housing.
This is basically what just happened with Deer Valley, so there is recent precedent for private developers building their own extension to a ski resort with a different owner to get ski in ski out lodging.
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/Galli-Curci-Road-Highmount-NY/42139659/
Saw this as a link on Liftblog, the religious summer camp that owns the former ski resort in the northwest catskills have fixed the chairlift after thirty years of sitting unused.
The terrain probably wouldn't be as good as any of the current four catskills high peaks ski resorts, but they would probably have good lake effect snowfall even with global warming that far to the northwest?
Not saying we should end the use of wood entirely, or that timber is the worst industry for the environment (it's definitely not.) But there just seems to be a big gap between what the timber industry actually does to the environment and what people think its impact is.
Wood is almost certainly not carbon negative. Mature forests probably capture more carbon annually than juvenile ones, so cutting down mature forests will probably lead to a reduction in annual carbon captured from a forest. This is before accounting for transportation and other emissions from timber production.
The timber industry almost certainly doesn't reduce forest fire risks, larger more mature trees have lower fire risks and cutting them down leads to a sharp increase in flammable underbrush.
Wood requires way more mass to work as a building material than alternatives like steel, so mass to mass comparisons of wood and steel as building materials for embodied carbon will be extremely misleading.
Wood burns. No, using inflammable structural materials like steel is not a cure for fire risks which are rising with CO2 levels. But inflammable structural materials are definitely a massive improvement for fire safety that greatly reduces those risks.
I think because wood is "natural" people think its better for the environment and are too easily swayed by bad arguments in favor of it.
NYC and Lake Placid are developing a joint bid for the 2042 Winter Olympics. Obviously Whiteface is one of the few places on the east coast capable of hosting the more difficult events like Downhill which require very long and wide runs. But it seems to lack the capacity to handle all of the Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, freestyle skiing and ski mountaineering events together. Back in the 1980 Olympics only Downhill, Grand Slalom and Slalom were contested for both sexes. Now there are dozens of competitions to host. The obvious thing would be to also include Gore, but even then I'm not sure that would be enough capacity, the Milan Cortina games required events at three resorts (Cortina D'Ampezzo, Bormio and Livigno) and I think that has become typical for modern Olympics. If a third resort has to be included for capacity reasons which should it be?
Obviously Belleayre is also run by the New York Olympic authority, but is too small for a lot of the events and a three hour drive from NYC. In a stretch though you could run some of the events with shorter lengths on Dot Nebel or Yahoo.
Sugarbush is reasonably close to Lake Placid and much more capable than Belleayre, but is in Vermont. There are plenty of other ski resorts that are close to NYC, but probably only Belleayre/Hunter/Windham are big enough to handle even the smaller events and Belleayre has the advantage of being ORDA run over Hunter and Windham.
Ski mountaineering at Big Snow American Dream?
Alta tops out at 11,068 feet. The little cottonwood canyon gondola will start somewhere around 5,400 feet most likely. So a lift served vertical of ~5668 feet. Revelstoke has a vertical drop of 5,620 feet, so this could be the largest vertical drop in North America.
This is mostly theoretical as currently the little cottonwood canyon trail on All Trails says that large portions of it have to be on the road, so there might not actually be any easy way down. If a ski run were constructed people might be better off using cross country or touring skis for it given how flat the run would be. But I have to imagine that someone will end up doing this, and it will technically be lift served.
This is 90% a shitpost btw.
This strike is infuriating, causing immense damage to New Yorkers, the MTA and the environment. I am a staunch Democrat who believes that we should raise the tax to GDP ratio in the US to support more public services, but public sector unions ought to be banned to prevent corruption, massive deadweight losses and inferior public services.