Sitting on a lift under the snow sounds like an experience haha. I was wondering about that because parts of the lift were quite close to the snow this winter and I knew they’d had heavier years.

Hood, mostly Meadows, for most of my skiing life but I actually moved up to Bellingham in January so for the second half of this past season it was Baker for me too! I love it, excellent skiing and never super busy because it isn’t that close to any big cities that don’t have closer mountains.

I’m in the same boat being in the Pacific Northwest but even if I stick to the closest hikes or whatever I’m still putting 20 miles on instead of zero on Saturday. My 80 mile round trip to a great ski mountain is pretty close by almost anyone’s standards but it’s still another 80 mile day. Plus I’m a natural roamer so…

Meanwhile I have an 80 mile round trip daily commute and am skiing, camping, exploring or visiting friends and families in other cities about 3 out of 4 weekends. I bought my truck in December and am about to hit 20k miles.

Living and working in a city I had a 30-60 minute(depending on traffic) and 8 mile each way commute. Living in Northern Washington outside of the Seattle sphere of traffic I have a 50 minute and 40 mile each-way commute. My god that odometer has started to move fast

Yeah I guess cargo pilots get the short end of the stick here because they can’t necessarily always use their own airlines’ flights if they need to transit and a guy in the wrong pilot outfit with maps, weather reports and flight plans throws some red flags. It at least makes more sense than pulling someone aside who…

I have no love for TSA, quite the opposite, but to me this actually makes some sense. Maybe not the pat-down and nail clippers but giving the Marshall extra attention and multiple verifications.

It’s more than that.

Fair, it sounds like you were smart and used it to your advantage in some pretty shitty situations to come up with desperately needed cash and then get it paid off quick.

I have a passive(MIM Jazz Bass) and an active(mid-90s Ibanez SR400 well, technically passive pups running through an onboard preamp but it amounts to the same thing), but basically both the same price point and quality level. I don’t mind the batteries so much but what I’ve found is the SR is capable of a dizzying…

1. It’s called credit card debt. It’s like a loan for anything you want with a really shitty interest rate.

I texted a guy once about a bass guitar amp he was selling on CL for about half the fair price. He thought it had a wiring issue because when he would leave his active bass plugged in overnight it would drain the battery in the bass. I texted him to let him know that active basses always run the battery down if you…

THANK YOU! I love the idea, I love that someone is making an electric car that is an intrinsically desirable automobile that people want because of its merits and that x-factor that makes a car an icon. Not some obnoxious eco-mobile that moves units by making people feel bad about the polar bears. I care about the…

Well a three pound brick is a much more concentrated force so much more dangerous than a blunt force. But yeah, it comes down to how amazing modern tires are really, as well as ABS systems. Now a pickup truck can do one panic stop like before insane brake fade which is why you still want big brakes and light weight in…

Not exactly, there have always been two very different markets for the compact pickup.

Yes, it would stand to reason that a full size truck with a 6.5 foot bed and an extended cab would be about the same length as a mid size truck with a 6 foot bed and a crew cab. Trucks come in many different lengths, the determining difference between midsize and fullsize is the width. You actually may not have the…

Ah yeah, that’s right. Been a long time since college freshman physics haha and studying CS/working as a software developer does not exercise those skills, should’ve checked my formulas. Either way, probably just as dead if I get hit by a 2300 pound Miata at 60 mph as a 6,000 pound pickup truck at 60 mph.

Pedestrian safety standards have to do with the car, not the intersection. I’m honestly not sure if we test for them in the States but I know they have standards in the UK and some other european countries. Believe it or not hoods need to have a certain amount of give and front fascias are designed so that in most…

To be fair the title and lead paragraph(you know, the click generating parts) were kinda misleading too. Headline: ‘Death on foot: America’s love of SUVs is killing pedestrians’ and then the article goes on to examine multiple contributing causes, one of which is SUVs, but never really reaches a verdict as to whether…

Obviously it’s because it’s in the northeastern corner of Erie County(the most northwestern county in PA). Apparently whoever named it didn’t consider how misleading this was hahaha