The statistics of being that guy
The odds of a hundred people liking the same music are slim to none, and most people on the chairlift think you're an asshole. Plus the world's only skiing card game.
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Design diary, simulation notes, and why a ski day maps so cleanly onto a card table.
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Not a Resort
Tim on Granite Peak, Wausau, and why the best ski areas don't need the word resort.
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Skiing in a mosh pit
Half an hour before the lifts close, every run on the mountain turns into a mosh pit. On traffic lights, closing time, and the world's only skiing card game.
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The super El Niño year
NOAA keeps raising the odds that this El Niño breaks the all-time record. Here's the winter forecast, and my irrational decision to hope for Northwest powder anyway.
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The Lift Is a Personality Test
Some riders talk your ear off. Others stare at the mountain in silence. Every chairlift sorts us.
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700 Feet of Vert
I learned to ski in the Midwest. Four hours each way to Wausau for a hill with 700 vertical feet, and I'd do it again.
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