It looks like the eclipse is going to be the new Snowbird vs. Alta or PTO in December.Tony Crocker":1f2rbfn6 said:
Eclipse Camping/Viewing Options: Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming
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You forgot about the January dry spell myth. :stir:jamesdeluxe":1u7quub7 said:
The eclipse topic will likely go on hiatus until 2024, although I'm hearing a fair amount of interest in South America for December 14, 2020. http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/so ... pFull.html
The path passes over the Pucon Villarica volcano in Chile, and the weather prospects on the leeward Argentine side of the Andes should be excellent in early summer. The path is about 150 miles north of Bariloche and there are lots of interesting places to visit in that part of the world even if it's not ski season.
Hey, if you want to check out Nazis, you don't need to go to Bariloche. Charlottesville is much closer.
Tony Crocker":2kaalihy said:
Those are just wannabe whack jobs.
This is the real deal. While I'm not a conspiracy theorist, there's at least some compelling evidence that it's at least possible that Hitler didn't die in a Berlin bunker, but instead was smuggled out to South America in a U-boat via Spain. Bariloche was a hotbed for high-ranking Nazi Party members during and after WWII (which in part explains the heavy German influence around there in culture, architecture, etc.), and there's some evidence that Hitler himself was there (and other places in South America) in the 1950s planning the Fourth Reich. The CIA has some recently released top-secret documents that collected evidence on this theory, which was also the subject of a series "Hunting Hitler" that ran on the History Channel.
I remember watching that. I'm always game for a good conspiracy theory and Bariloche is a good one. Whenever there's nothing else on TV, I go looking for Third Reich documentaries (drives my wife nuts) with post-WWII East Germany a very close second -- why do you think I learned the language? 8)Admin":30dys1t8 said:
http://www.nl-aid.org/suicide-hitler-pr ... seduction/
As with JFK, the odds are very high that the conventional explanation is correct. But the initial investigations were sloppy enough to give some wiggle room to the conspiracy theorists.
As with JFK, the odds are very high that the conventional explanation is correct. But the initial investigations were sloppy enough to give some wiggle room to the conspiracy theorists.
I just got to checking whether TGR had an eclipse thread. Yes they did, 32 pages worth. The first 20 pages before August 21 were the usual mix of some people who were going plus the also expected traffic/crowd paranoia and snark.
The 12 pages after August 21 were quite different, and also not a surprise. Mostly "meh" from those outside totality and awed testimonials from those inside. As a ski analogy, these posts on page 32 sum it up:
Among our Salt Lake ski acquaintances, Dave Hansen brought a group of 10 to Jackson that went up the tram with us. Allene Lemons, normally part of that group, was at her sister's place in Rigby, Idaho which has a 5 acre horse pasture. Liz and I stopped there on the way in and arranged for that to be our first choice backup if weather in Jackson was unfavorable. But the SLC skiers on this forum were all 1 inchers AFAIK.
The 12 pages after August 21 were quite different, and also not a surprise. Mostly "meh" from those outside totality and awed testimonials from those inside. As a ski analogy, these posts on page 32 sum it up:
St. Jerry ":1w8hnux2 said:
puma":1w8hnux2 said:
Among our Salt Lake ski acquaintances, Dave Hansen brought a group of 10 to Jackson that went up the tram with us. Allene Lemons, normally part of that group, was at her sister's place in Rigby, Idaho which has a 5 acre horse pasture. Liz and I stopped there on the way in and arranged for that to be our first choice backup if weather in Jackson was unfavorable. But the SLC skiers on this forum were all 1 inchers AFAIK.
There were no traffic issues in Idaho on the way in during the 3 days prior, nor leaving early the next morning. And if you bother to read some of those 12 pages on TGR, the posters who made the effort all thought it was worth any traffic hassles afterwards, just like a 30 inch powder day.
If you're that traffic phobic, I guess you'll pass up the 30 inch powder days in LCC too. Of course, MarcC has been passing those up for some time because he can't keep up with admin's posse anymore.
If you're that traffic phobic, I guess you'll pass up the 30 inch powder days in LCC too. Of course, MarcC has been passing those up for some time because he can't keep up with admin's posse anymore.
Marc_C
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You're forgetting that I had surgery the next day. I had to be at the hospital at 6:30a. You're also forgetting that 8+ hrs of driving would pretty much kill the enjoyment of 2.5 minutes.Tony Crocker":1kmyis7n said:
You have no idea where or when I ski and you took the opportunity to again be a condescending ass.Tony Crocker":1kmyis7n said:
And you have the gall to call me negative.
FU.
Not at all. Your comment was exclusively :dead horse: about traffic.Marc_C":ue2fvxhp said:
Not according to 12 pages of posts by often cynical people on TGR. The bottom line is that someone who has never skied a 30-inch powder day is not qualified to comment upon whether associated traffic hassles are or are not worth it. The same applies here. And in the case of SLC to Idaho, very modest countermeasures were available to those who wanted to avoid traffic.Marc_C":ue2fvxhp said:
No, but I know you're not skiing with admin much because he's a social animal and mentions with whom he skis in his TR's. Readers should trust the objective evidence of your absence from those TR's nearly every winter weekend over assertions by either of us.Marc_C":ue2fvxhp said:
Damn right I do, and there's over a decade of evidence on this forum supporting that view, not to mention the people who have abandoned FTO largely because of the negativity.Marc_C":ue2fvxhp said:
On some forums this is taken care of by moderation. Here and TGR have a laissez faire attitude. That's fine, but then it becomes the responsibility of active members to call out trolling, BS and negativity.
Patrick
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I know Tony mentioned that I would mark April 8, 2024 on my calendar, especially with totality moving over some ski areas. I just decided to add skiing under a total eclipse to my bucket list.
As some of you might know, I went to Oregon for one week which included some skiing, but also a trips and detours to Mt St Helens, Crater Lake and the Oregon Coast. When skiing, I bumped into someone that skied that day (and pointed me to this video below). I asked him if the lifts were running and the answer was affirmative. I thought that Mt Hood was in totality (I confess, I didn't look it up), but notice is was just slightly off. The person I skied with said it was pretty cool to see the shadow move beyond Mt Hood.
No actual video of the sun, but you can see the impressions on the skiers, racers, etc and the sky changing.
As some of you might know, I went to Oregon for one week which included some skiing, but also a trips and detours to Mt St Helens, Crater Lake and the Oregon Coast. When skiing, I bumped into someone that skied that day (and pointed me to this video below). I asked him if the lifts were running and the answer was affirmative. I thought that Mt Hood was in totality (I confess, I didn't look it up), but notice is was just slightly off. The person I skied with said it was pretty cool to see the shadow move beyond Mt Hood.
No actual video of the sun, but you can see the impressions on the skiers, racers, etc and the sky changing.
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Unfortunately for skiers, Mt. Hood was a close miss, 99.5%. That means 2,000x as bright as totality, though the umbra passing just south would be clearly visible from elevation.
Since we're contributing music on this thread, here's the appropriate song for those Mt. Hood skiers:
Since we're contributing music on this thread, here's the appropriate song for those Mt. Hood skiers:
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Hilarious parody of the Bonnie Tyler Song:
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I finally collected some pics from varied sources and put up a report on the eclipse and our wedding on Rendezvous Peak:
http://bestsnow.net/TRsFTO/20170821Jack ... dding.html
This TR, my other solar eclipses and some other adventures are now on my website: http://bestsnow.net/TRsFTO/triprpts.htm
This is the beginning of the process of posting some highlight TR's as Patrick has been doing for some time. The demise of the EpicSki Forum last spring was a big wake-up call about backing up one's own content. One of the Epic users brought the HTTrack program to our attention, and that is an automated though time consuming process of extracting desired threads including pictures. Reposting the threads to one's own blog takes some time but is moderately efficient in the HTTrack structure, doable gradually over the long run.
http://bestsnow.net/TRsFTO/20170821Jack ... dding.html
This TR, my other solar eclipses and some other adventures are now on my website: http://bestsnow.net/TRsFTO/triprpts.htm
This is the beginning of the process of posting some highlight TR's as Patrick has been doing for some time. The demise of the EpicSki Forum last spring was a big wake-up call about backing up one's own content. One of the Epic users brought the HTTrack program to our attention, and that is an automated though time consuming process of extracting desired threads including pictures. Reposting the threads to one's own blog takes some time but is moderately efficient in the HTTrack structure, doable gradually over the long run.