http://www.grotto11.com/blog/ The Life of Brian: Macs, Tech, Politics, and Randomania en-us btman@grotto11.com It had been two years since my last ski trip. Now it's been one week. Two weekends ago, we had just endured a two-day blizzard that left the freeways of the New York area buried under three inches of compacted, unplowed snow, and the surrounding flat surfaces accumulating as much as eighteen inches.Up at Hunter Mountain, in the Catskills about 90 minutes' drive from me, they'd had seven feet.This takes some getting used to. I'm accustomed to West Coast ski conditions that depend on the temperatures in the high Sierras being a good twenty or thirty degrees cooler during a given Pacific storm than what falls in the Bay Area, so that what San Jose gets as a sullen and month-long interrupted January rain falls in Tahoe as a hundred inches of constantly-accumulating snow. But here in New York, the mountains are at sea level, and offer maybe 2,000 feet of elevation. There's no temperature difference to speak of. Which I guess explains why there's not much in the way of Appalachian ski resorts south of the... http://www.grotto11.com/blog/archive/1268532098.shtml 2010-03-13T18:1:38-08:00 I don't get how some people's minds work. Which I guess is why mine doesn't come up with stuff like this. Via Chris. http://www.grotto11.com/blog/archive/1268401539.shtml 2010-03-12T5:45:39-08:00