Recent content by NYDrew

High's off. Sometimes only marker lights (for other drivers to see me) if the moon is bright enough.

How bad are these waterbars? I've become a snob since moving to VT, I won't go unless I know its going to be good (at a minimum). Needless to say, I have only 2 days on my season pass. Convince me its worth going on a scale of 0-10 (0=don't go, 1=good, 10=epic powder day in the trees)

It means that Green Mountain Coffee Roasters gets to claim a new office at Jay! Don't know what happens but I usually have no less then 3 RFID cards on me at any given time and I've never had problems. Work, Ski, FD. Used to have 2 for work. You would think work or FD would say something to...

I'm looking for a bike, but I don't need anything special. I don't want to spend more the $200, maybe up to $300. I just want something to enjoy the paved paths around Burlington, perhaps something that can handle some easy dirt trails as well. I don't know how to evaluate a good bike, so I'm...

While both smoking hot (on my very unforgiving 1-10 scale where you have to achieve a 6 to go on a date with me skiing is +1, being better then me is another +1). Physically they both achieve a 7 (very, very high on my scale), they make enough money that if I was to marry them I could work a...

ugh, I can't stand Nancy Grace, she is nothing but a S*** stirrer and 90% of the time she is defending the guilty party. I put her on par with Al Sharpton. And that brown haired nancy grace wanna-be, Jane Valez-Mitchell is even more annoying. I just remember one part she did where some 12...

3 Mile Island - The system worked. All technology is bound to failure, your only protection is safeguards and redundancy. Chernobyl - It was a non-sealed reactor core, they shut down the safeguards and withdrew the control rods to "see what happens", now we know. Fukishima - No conclusions...

Didn't even think of comparing it to the Circ. Considering I live 1 mile from 2 of the 4 exits on the Circ (and therefore less then 3 from the other two) I have a lot to gain from completion of the Circ, like I don't know....easy access to I-89, Burlington and Work. Even more practical use for...

Thought this could be an interesting and intelligent conversation. We got 4 Gen-1 reactors boiling off to a meltdown in Japan. The NRC is up to re-approving the 20 year contracts on the first wave of the US Gen-1 reactors. An oil crisis. War everywhere there is oil ....and of course we got...

There was a law passed last year that changed the requirement for Vt Syrup. I believe now it requires the product to be 90% from Vermont. Some large sugarers with land that crosses into the NH border fought the law, I believe they were given a variance due to the fact that their primary...

I think what the "Vermont Maple Syrup" label does to the local sugaring is terrible...so much money built into the bottle price. I know a sugarer who does both "Vermont Maple Syrup" as well as just "Pure Maple Syrup" because he sells it at a lower price, with a higher margin for the same stuff...

yeah, I didn't have the right skis for the woods so I didn't go to deep that day, but I found them to be rock hard also. As far as crowds, I was putting them on Jay standards...and by that standard the mountain was packed. Again, add to it that most of the people couldn't ski..but thought they...

Smuggs Conditions: Hard Pack and Slick Nice Day to ski but was so overdressed. Took like 7 runs and went home because the winds shut down M1. Secret locals spot of the day: Lower FIS. With M2 running and FIS being way, way, way off the beaten trail via a traverse and the sun beating on the...

Conditions: Fresh Powder Fresh Powder Packed Powder Fresh Heavy Powder Day 1: I skipped out of work an hour early and made opening. My Z9's proved to be to narrow so I opted to rent a pair of Dynastar Pro Riders with the 115 underfoot. Many people struggled with the snow, me and my borrowed...

I actually had this conversation with some patrollers today. The conclusion, you are not going to find more advanced and technically difficult skiing on the east coast. That statement used to be true of Stowe until they blasted most of the obstacles off of the mountain.