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Benvenuti in America. La terra delle opportunità. Una nazione che dietro la sua copertina luminosa e trionfante, c'è tanta oscurità. Il Cinema ha saputo mostrare il lato più tetro e "scomodo" degli USA con film provocatori, lugubri e talvolta crudi. Perché quindi non riscoprirli? A volte i crimini più crudeli vengono commessi nella realtà più "ordinarie" e placide. Ed è quello che sembra volerci dire il tragicomico "The Big White", macabro e grottesco racconto sull'amore e sulla meschinità umana.

Today: Greg got to spend some quality doggy/daddy (EW) time this past weekend, the ice cream tax and werewolf boy, Florida Man Olympics and a stolen smallest park, and don't forget that Courage is RAWKING this Friday at Misdemeanor Meadows!

On this episode, two-time Paralympic snowboarder Sandrine Hemel joins the show to share insights into the ongoing season. She also touches on the last major event of the year happening at Big White in B.C., the importance of competitions one year out from the 2026 Paralympic Games, and the comradery amongst the Canadian Para Snowboard team. Find Kelly & Company on YouTube!About AMIAMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca.Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+Learn more at AMI.caConnect with Accessible Media Inc. online:X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail feedback@ami.ca

Miguel Vargas inexplicably is the White Sox everyday third baseman after his orginal organization neither felt he was an everyday player or a third baseman. Meanwhile it looks like we know who will own the White Sox after Jerry Reinsdorf, and you should be pretty excited about that. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at his 9-foot homemade oak bar in a basement on the South Side of Chicago to discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. Video version now available on YouTube! Call 708-459-8406 and leave your comments and questions for the next episode! SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

Send us a textIn this weeks episode brought to you in association with SkiWeekends.com Dom and Rob discuss:SKI NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLDPolar Exploration: Preet Chandi attempts a solo ski to the North Pole, aiming to inspire resilience and set records.Alpine Snow Conditions:Exceptional snowfall in the Alps creates perfect skiing conditions, but avalanche risks remain high.Avalanche incidents highlight the importance of safety gear and cautious off-piste skiing.Colorado Gondola Incident: 174 passengers rescued after a structural crack caused a gondola to stop. No injuries reported.Tour de Ski Update: Andrew Musgrave secures bronze in the 20km Freestyle, marking a milestone for British skiing.Inspiration for Retirees: Nick and Suzanne Anderson launch TelemarkTraveller.com, a blog for active retirees exploring skiing and outdoor adventures.THE LATEST GEAR TRENDS AND GEAR REVIEWEDDom and Rob also discuss SLIDE the trade show in Telford, showcasing the latest ski gear for autumn 2025.Columbia Snowtrot Mid Snow Boots (£100): Waterproof, warm, and stylish.Mountain Warehouse Galactic III Extreme Ski Jacket (RRP £219.99, now £85): Functional and affordable.Black Crows Dorsa 22 Backpack (£139): Compact, versatile for ski and mountain use.Therm-ic Thin Ultra Heated Glove Liners (£240): Long-lasting heated liners for cold-weather comfort.DARE2B Women's Snowburst Overhead Ski Jacket - Stylish, waterproof, breathable Ared 10/10 fabric, Features ski pass pocket, snowskirt, adjustable fit. £75 (50% off) at dare2b.com.SCOTT Ultimate Dryo Ripstop Women's Jacket, DRYOsphere membrane; durable and warm. £200, available at scott-sports.com.WHERE IS BEST TO SKI NOWAlps: Grand Massif leads with over 2m snow base. Three Valleys, Tarentaise, and Obergurgl in great shape.Norway: Mykdalen offers the best snow; Hafjell has good piste conditions.North America: Colorado, Montana, Whistler (Canada), and Big Sky are top picks.Japan: Niseko shines with 3m+ snow at higher elevations. AND THE DESTINATION FEATURE THIS WEEK IS - BIG WHITEFamily-friendly ski-in/ski-out resort in British Columbia.119 runs, 24ft annual snowfall, minimal lift queues.Easy access via Kelowna International Airport.Terrain: Beginner-friendly green runs in Happy Valley. Diverse intermediate blues in Powder Quad and Falcon Double areas. Advanced terrain at Gem Lake and Cliff Chair for experts.Activities: Snowshoeing, snowmobiling, dog sledding, spas, and Canada's highest outdoor skating rink.Dining & Nightlife: Top spots: Snowshoe Sam's, Globe Cafe, Sopra Sam's Italian Kitchen.Family-friendly options like The BullWheel and The Market Café.Accommodation:High-end: Sundance (luxury suites, hot tubs).Family-friendly: Inn at Big White (amenities, lift access).Budget: Self-catering condos and vacation homes.Closing:Big White offers incredible terrainIn the meantime Enjoy the mountains :) And Please do leave a review as it's the only way other like minded travellers get to find us! And don't forget to check us out on the following channels inthesnow.cominstagram.com/inthesnowTikTok@inthesnowmag youtube.com/inthesnowmagfacebook.com/inthesnowTo contact us with your suggestions for further episodes at dom@InTheSnow.com / robert@ski-press.com

On this month's episode of This Week's Episode, Angie sparks our interests of might and magic with the full run of Arcane. Evan goes to war with some creatures, Kris hits the gym with Shorsey and Karen joins the gang over at Queer Eye for another season of helping others. All this and so much more! This week's episode Arcane - Full Show Homework Shrinking - Coin Flip & Fortress of Solitude (S01E01&02) Support Us Geekade Patreon Karen's Etsy Store Angie's Website Angie's Twitch Channel Kris' SAG Youtube Tales of Cape Fear Social Stuff Discord Geekade Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Twitch

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Oct. 11. It dropped for free subscribers on Oct. 18. To receive future episodes as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoAndy Cohen, General Manager of Fernie Alpine Resort, British ColumbiaRecorded onSeptember 3, 2024About FernieClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, which also owns:Located in: Fernie, British ColumbiaPass affiliations:* Epic Pass: 7 days, shared with Kicking Horse, Kimberley, Nakiska, Stoneham, and Mont-Sainte Anne* RCR Rockies Season Pass: unlimited access, along with Kicking Horse, Kimberley, and NakiskaClosest neighboring ski areas: Fairmont Hot Springs (1:15), Kimberley (1:27), Panorama (1:45) – travel times vary considerably given time of year and weather conditionsBase elevation: 3,450 feet/1,052 metersSummit elevation: 7,000 feet/2,134 metersVertical drop: 3,550 feet/1,082 metersSkiable Acres: 2,500+Average annual snowfall: 360 inches/914 Canadian inches (also called centimeters)Trail count: 145 named runs plus five alpine bowls and tree skiing (4% extreme, 21% expert, 32% advanced, 30% intermediate, 13% novice)Lift count: 10 (2 high-speed quads, 2 fixed-grip quads, 3 triples, 1 T-bar, 1 Poma, 1 conveyor - view Lift Blog's inventory of Fernie's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himOne of the most irritating dwellers of the #SkiInternet is Shoosh Emoji Bro. This Digital Daniel Boone, having boldly piloted his Subaru beyond the civilized bounds of Interstate 70, considers all outlying mountains to be his personal domain. So empowered, he patrols the digital sphere, dropping shoosh emojis on any poster that dares to mention Lost Trail or White Pass or Baker or Wolf Creek. Like an overzealous pamphleteer, he slings his brand haphazardly, toward any mountain kingdom he deems worthy of his forcefield. Shoosh Emoji Bro once Shoosh Emoji-ed me over a post about Alta.

In Episode 25, Scott and Trey take you on a ride through a variety of topics, from their scenic drive to the shooting range and encounters with wild horses in Nevada, to the quirks of credit cards and check writing. They reminisce about high school days, share plans for upcoming fishing trips, and dive into the hiring process for police officers. Along the way, they discuss a shooting incident at Sam's Club and the Department of Homeland Security's secret service training. The episode wraps up with light-hearted banter about glitches in technology, voting, working at Burger King, bachelor parties, DUIs, and their visions for retirement. It's a mix of humor, insight, and some wild stories along the way!

A panelist on CNN's State Of The Union pointed out an inconvenient truth without flinching or embarrassment: She believes KY Gov. Andy Beshear is a good choice for Kamala Harris's VP because of his big white Republican-looking family. Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://politicsdoneright.com/newsletter Purchase our Books: As I See It: https://amzn.to/3XpvW5o How To Make America Utopia: https://amzn.to/3VKVFnG It's Worth It: https://amzn.to/3VFByXP Lose Weight And Be Fit Now: https://amzn.to/3xiQK3K Tribulations of an Afro-Latino Caribbean man: https://amzn.to/4c09rbE

My guest today worked for Club Med from 2004 to 2006 and his first season was at Club Med Crested Butte as a Ski Instructor. He is a graduate of Penn State University with majors in Management and International Business with a minor in French. While at Penn State, he was a member of the Fencing team and won two NCAA Championships with the team. He's from Pennsylvania but has been living in my favorite country in the world, Australia, for the last seventeen years, and we'll ask him how the heck that happened! Please help me welcome, Matt Gillig! Matt has some stories from carrying Kenny Loggin's luggage, getting his book signed by former President Jimmy Carter, and meeting his future wife at Big White in British Columbia! Fun Fact: Matt is probably the only G.O. to have turned down a job with the U.S. Army to work at their resort in Garmisch, Germany for active-duty military service members and retirees of the Armed Services. The U.S. Army has resorts for its members? Yes, I did not know that either and Matt will explain why he chose Club Med over that. Please enjoy your time with Matt! **My First Season podcast has always been ad-free and free to listen to and is available to download on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Samsung Podcasts, Podbean App, Podchaser, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, TuneIn + Alexa, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Pandora and Listen Notes. And if you like what you hear, please leave a review on Apple podcasts. 

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Tamara believes "Success is not final...and failure is not fatal". It's the courage to continue that count. She is the owner of Mirror Image Vacation Rental Services. Born and raised in Kelowna BC in the beautiful Okanagan Valley. And In Kelowna it's all about tourism. Whether it be world-class wineries, champagne powder at Big White ski resort, or sparkling lakes, she always knew tourism, and hospitality was something she was not only passionate about but was an area she could see herself getting into business. After 15+ years of scraping by as a waitress and bartender and never getting ahead, she applied for a part-time job with Kelowna Resort Accommodations (which is a large-scale property management company in Kelowna). And then started her own business from there. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada's economy. To support Canada's businesses, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to stay up-to-date on the latest #entrepreneur podcasts and news? Subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter

Smack my ass and shave my balls - it's episode 8 from Chippewa Falls!This week we discuss roommate stories, learn about stacking pancakes, hear about the neighbors big white granny panties and more!Be sure to like, subscribe, and whatever else you can do to be notified of newest our episodes.  We look forward to each week - and you should too!Support the Show.

Out of the UK yet originally from South Africa, Sias Berg is a former MD/integrative doctor who was broken open and essentially forced to take off the "big white coat" because of a sexual addiction. ALL of this changed his life, marriage, identities and brought further a consciousness of mind/body/soul healing as well as a big desire to change the health industry from a sickness model to a healing one. He lays his heart on the line here!Sias leads the Just Be Practice at the end with a wonderful, healing somatic practice. You have to experience it, to understand it.Connect with Sias Berg:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doctor-sias-36885845Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doctorsiasbergFacebook – Starseed Solace: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550485422972Podcast – Be Us with See Us:https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/be-us-with-see-us--6134835**Host Eden Koz is a psychological empath (she feels, articulates and moves your pain/joy/blocks/etc), intuitive, medium, meditation master & dimensional as well as a galactic healer. She does remote & face-to-face sessions with individuals as well as groups.Contact info for Eden Koz / Just Be®, LLC:Insta, FB, FB (Just Be), LinkedIn, TruthSocial, (see the podcast also on) BitChute, Rumble, YouTube, Odysee, Grassroots Warrior Network The Just Be~Spiritual BOOM Podcast can be found on the audio directories: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, ...

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This episode is a Norway special, featuring the resorts of Gausta, Strandafjellet and Fjellsetra. Iain was joined by Lucy Aspden, Ski Editor at The Telegraph and Rich Astley live from Norway. Intersport Ski Hire Discount Code Save money on your ski hire by using the code ‘SKIPODCAST' at intersportrent.com, or simply take this link for your discount to be automatically applied at the checkout.   SHOW NOTES  Ian Williams reported from Les Arcs (2:30) Martha Wells was in Big White, Canada (3:45) Simon Burgess reported from Flaine (4:30) Pip bought ski boots and had them fitted at Michel Croz Intersport in Chamonix (6:45) Andrew Musgrave who finished 7th in the 20km Cross Country in Canmore (7:00) Listen to Iain's interview with Zak Carrick-Smith in Episode 200 (7:15) Twin brother Freddie Carrick-Smith won gold in the u18 Slalom in the European Champs Sadly, both Esprit Ski + Powderwhite will not operate next winter (7:30) Iain has taken the Flight Free UK pledge not to take any flights in 2024 (10:15) Find out about Iain's train journey to Chamonix on Ski Flight Free Lucy travelled to Gausta in Norway (10:30) Find out about the Gaustatoppen funicular and links with WWII (14:45) Watch the film ‘Heroes of Telemark' (18:45) Find out about the Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT) (23:00) Rich is based in the Sunnmores Alps (25:30) Previously he has been ski touring with Uteguiden (25:45) Rich fell in love with the area on a trip to the Kilsti compact lodges (29:00) (29:00) He bought land in the area, and built a property, now available to rent (31:00) Fjellsetra is a great family resort (32:00) Strandafjellet has more freeride ski options (32:15)   Feedback I enjoy all feedback about the show, I like to know what you think, especially about our features so please contact on social @theskipodcast or by email theskipodcast@gmail.com Andrew Petch: "Episode 199 with Dave Ryding was another great pod" Miranda Walsh: "Another cracking episode thank you. Mr Ryding is a legend!" Matthew: "Loving your work. Just wondering if you'd ever done a pod on helmet headphones? I'm going to go in on the Carv, so thinking about the audio element too" We'll ask Al for an answer on that. In the meantime you can enjoy our Equipment Specials in our back catalog. If you like the podcast, there are three things you can do to help:   1) Review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 2) Subscribe 3) Book your ski hire with Intersport Rent using the code ‘SKIPODCAST' or simply take this link for your discount to be automatically applied at the checkout. Helen kindly Bought Me A Coffee: "Thank you. I have been listening to all the previous episodes and just love it!" There are 206 episodes to catch up with and 180 were listened to in the last week. 53% of our listeners are in the UK, with 47% across the rest of the world, including listeners in the last week from Colombia, India, Kenya and Malaysia.  There is so much to listen to in our back catalog, just go to theskipodcast.com and search around the tags and categories: you're bound to find something of interest to you.  You can follow Iain @skipedia and the podcast @theskipodcast. 

With back-to-back trades over the weekend, Chris Getz continues to shake up the White Sox roster. Chuck Garfien and Ryan McGuffey discuss the deals that sent Gregory Santos to Seattle and Cristian Mena to Arizona. In return, the White Sox acquired outfielders Dominic Fletcher and Zach DeLoach, pitcher Prelander Berroa and the 69th pick in this year's draft.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The far more censored version of the award-winning and unparalleled "A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan." - "A Corporate Time" is a daily companion and terrestrial radio show heard nationally on iHeartRadio. It's silly.

Time to check in with Michael J of Big White Ski Resort to learn about the latest conditions on the hills! Guest: Michael J. Ballingall - Senior Vice President of Big White ski resort Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the Maier's get together post-Christmas to discuss: grey hair, Cupid's Panties, New Year's dinner, Santa gifts, cat sitting, Space Needle pic (again!), Big White, Kelowna Rockets, 2024 predictions, SOW, and the end of the season. Reach Us:  @kmaemaier  @chrismaierbc  @hwywhoney  hwywhoney@gmail.com

“There's no one that I see who can beat Donald Trump. He's vanquished all of them,” says Sam Jean, who returns for another special Raw & Uncut edition of Cuckoo 4 Politics. He and Michael discuss the GOP candidates running for the U.S. presidency in 2024. Mike Pence is an irrelevant dearth of charisma, who has returned to his pre-Trump irrelevancy. Nikki Haley has plenty of charisma but is running a campaign from 2002. Michael's dislike for Tim Scott borders on the irrational, yet is still not as irrational as those who refrained from donating to Scott's campaign because of his single status. Chris Christie has a lower than ten percent approval rating but is the only one willing to take Trump head on. Ron DeSantis' thuggish tactics and empty policies don't translate outside of his limited base in Florida. Michael takes pointed aim at his treatment of both Black constituents and politicians.  Does any of this really matter, though? As Sam points out that despite being indicted on 91 counts of felony, including inciting an insurrection, Donald Trump's MAGA base still blindly supports him. And his fellow politicians will do what they must to curry favor with him. After all, this is not the Republican party of Reagan, Bush Sr. or even Bush Jr. Despite the unprecedented vitriol and unbecoming behavior displayed by the party, Michael explains why he isn't panicked—-yet.  Quotes  “Everybody has to account for Trump and Trump's followers. And this is why I told you it wasn't a race from the jump, from the start, it wasn't a race. Trump had already won. And if you've noticed, as the primary has gone on, Trump has only become more and more popular.” (14:39 | Sam) “Once you get out of Florida, and you go to New Hampshire, nobody in New Hampshire thinks that people in Florida are actually more free than in New Hampshire, and voters in New Hampshire, for all the MAGA craziness, take the primary seriously, and they come with very serious questions. Iowa, they come with a very serious question, because they're given this sort of stage that they aren't given most of the time. And DeSantis just does not connect with people. If he's not bullying, he just does not connect with people. Trump might not like his followers, but he has no problem shaking their hands.” (19:33 | Sam) “I'll say this. Ron DeSantis is not definitely loved in the state of Florida, not entirely. Again, he's only admired in certain pockets within Florida. But I recall his rhetoric about, Black Lives Matter. His rhetoric about Critical Race Theory, his effort to minimize the political power within black communities to relegate them to one congressional elected official, his firing an elected official who was a black woman, I believe the district attorney, to put someone else in place. It doesn't resonate well.” (23:58 | Michael) ‘About the 91 indictments, it means absolutely nothing. OK, I'm being glib about it, when I say it means nothing. It doesn't mean nothing. In the grand scheme of history, it's a big deal. But if you're asking me in the particular, today, in the political environment for the Republican Party, what it means, it means nothing to them. And the reason it means nothing to them, is he continues to lead every single poll. At some point, Michael, you've got to stop believing in Santa Claus.” (30:21 | Sam)  “Trump is a great ‘marketeer'-- if that's even a word–but what's what I find interesting, too, is that GOP officials are scared, not of Trump, but of his Maga supporters.” (32:40 | Michael)  Links cuckoo4politics.com https://www.instagram.com/cuckoo_4_politics/ https://www.facebook.com/Cuckoo-4-Politics-104093938102793 Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Nov. 6. It dropped for free subscribers on Nov. 13. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoTom Chasse, President and CEO of Schweitzer Mountain, IdahoRecorded onOctober 23, 2023About SchweitzerClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Alterra Mountain CompanyLocated in: Sandpoint, IdahoYear founded: 1963Pass affiliations:* Ikon Pass: unlimited* Ikon Base Pass, Ikon Base Plus Pass: 5 days with holiday blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: 49 Degrees North (1:30), Silver Mountain (1:42), Mt. Spokane (2:00), Lookout Pass (2:06), Turner Mountain (2:17) – travel times vary considerably depending upon weather, time of day, and time of yearBase elevation: 3,960 feet (at Outback Inn)Summit elevation: 6,389 feetVertical drop: 2,429 feetSkiable Acres: 2,900Average annual snowfall: 300 inchesTrail count: 92 (10% Beginner, 40% Intermediate, 35% Advanced, 15% Expert)Lift count: 10 (1 six-pack, 4 high-speed quads, 2 triples, 1 double, 1 T-bar, 1 carpet)View historic Schweitzer trailmaps on skimap.org.Why I interviewed himChasse first appeared on the podcast in January 2021, for what would turn out to be the penultimate episode in the Covid-19 & Skiing miniseries. Our focus was singular: to explore the stress and irritation shoved onto resort employees charged with mask-police duty. As I wrote at the time:One of the biggest risks to the reconstituted-for-Covid ski season was always going to be that large numbers of knuckleheads would treat mask requirements as the first shots fired in Civil War II. Schweitzer, an enormous ski Narnia poking off the tip of the Idaho panhandle, became the most visible instance of this phenomenon when General Manager Tom Chasse chopped three days of twilight skiing after cantankerous Freedom Bros continually threw down with exhausted staff over requests to mask up. While violations of mask mandates haven't ignited widespread resort shutdowns and the vast majority of skiers seem resigned to them, Schweitzer's stand nonetheless distills the precarious nature of lift-served skiing amidst a still-raging pandemic. Skiers, if they grow careless and defiant, can shut down mountains. And so can the ski areas themselves, if they feel they can't safely manage the crowds descending upon them in this winter of there's-nothing-else-to-do. While it's unfortunate that a toxic jumble of misinformation, conspiracy theories, political chest-thumping, and ignorance has so thoroughly infected our population that even something as innocuous as riding a chairlift has become a culture war flashpoint, it has. And it's worth investigating the full story at Schweitzer to gauge how big the problem is and how to manage it in a way that allows us to all keep skiing.We did talk about the mountain for a few minutes at the end, but I'd always meant to get back to Idaho's largest ski area. In 2022, I hosted the leaders of Tamarack, Bogus Basin, Brundage, and Sun Valley on the podcast. Now, I'm finally back at the top of the panhandle, to go deep on the future of Alterra Mountain Company's newest lift-served toy.What we talked aboutThe new Creekside Express lift; a huge new parking lot incoming for the 2024-25 ski season; the evolution of the 2018 masterplan; why and how Schweitzer sold to Alterra; the advantages of joining a conglomerate versus remaining independent; whether Schweitzer could ever evolve into a destination resort; reflecting on the McCaw family legacy as Alterra takes control; thoughts on the demise-and-revival of Black Mountain, New Hampshire; the biggest difference between running a ski resort in New England versus the West; the slow, complete transformation of Schweitzer over the past two decades; the rationale behind the Outback Bowl lift upgrades; why Schweitzer's upper-mountain lifts are mostly fixed-grip machines; whether Alterra will continue with Schweitzer's 2018 masterplan or rethink it; potential for an additional future Outback Bowl lift, as outlined in the masterplan; contemplating future frontside lifts and terrain expansion; thoughts on a future Sunnyside lift replacement; how easy it would be to expand Schweitzer; the state of the ski area's snowmaking system; Schweitzer's creeping snowline; sustained and creative investment in employee housing; Ikon Pass access; locals' reaction to the mountain going unlimited on the full Ikon; whether Schweitzer could convert to the unlimited-with-blackouts tier on Ikon Base; dynamic pricing; whether the Musical Carpet will continue to be free; discount night-skiing; and whether Schweitzer's reciprocal season pass partners will remain after the 2023-24 ski season.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewUntil June, Schweitzer was the third-largest independent ski area in America, and just barely, trailing the 3,000 lift-served acres at Whitefish and Powder Mountain by just 100 acres. It's larger than Alta (2,614 acres), Grand Targhee (2,602), or Jackson Hole (2,500). That made this ever-improving resort lodged at the top of America the largest independent U.S. ski area on the Ikon Pass.Well, that's all finished. Once Alterra dropped Idaho's second-largest ski area into its shopping cart in June, Schweitzer became another name on the Denver-based company's attendance sheet, their fifth-largest resort after Palisades Tahoe (6,000 acres), Mammoth (3,500), Steamboat (3,500), and Winter Park (3,081).But what matters more than how the mountain stacks up on the stat sheet is how Alterra will facilitate Schweitzer's rapidly unfolding 2018 masterplan, which calls for a clutch of new lifts and a terrain expansion rising out of a Delaware-sized parking lot below the current base area. Schweitzer has so far moved quickly on the plan, dropping two brand-new lifts into Outback Bowl to replace an old centerpole double and activating a new high-speed quad called Creekside to replace the Musical Chairs double this past summer. Additional improvements include an upgrade to the Sunnyside lift and yet another lift in Outback. Is Alterra committed to all this?The company's rapid and comprehensive renovations or planned upgrades of Palisades Tahoe, Steamboat, and Deer Valley suggest that they will be. Alterra is not in the business of creating great day-ski areas. They are building destination ski resorts. Schweitzer, always improving but never quite gelling as a national bucket-lister, may have the captain it needs to finally get there.What I got wrongI asked Chasse if there was an “opportunity for a Snowcat operation.” There already is one: Selkirk Powder runs day-long tours in Schweitzer's “west-northwest-facing bowls adjacent to the resort.”Why you should ski SchweitzerAllow me to play the Ida-homer for a moment. All we ever hear about is traffic in Colorado. Traffic in the canyons. Traffic in Tahoe. Traffic at Mount Hood and all around Washington. Sometimes, idling amid stopped traffic in your eight-wheel-drive Chuckwagon Supreme Ultimate Asskicker Pickup Truck can seem as much a part of western skiing as pow and open bowls.But when was the last time you heard someone gripe about ski traffic in Idaho? Probably never. Which is weird, because look at this:Ten ski areas with a thousand-plus acres of terrain; 12 with vertical drops topping 1,000 feet; seven that average 300 inches or more of snow per season. That's pretty, um, Epic (except that Vail has no mountains and no partners in this ripper of a ski state).So what's going on? Over the weekend, I hosted a panel of ski area general managers at the Snowvana festival in Portland, Oregon. Among the participants were Tamarack President Scott Turlington and Silver Mountain GM Jeff Colburn. Both told me some version of, “we never have lift lines.” Look again at those stats. What the hell?Go to Idaho, is my point here, if you need a break from the madness. The state, along with neighboring Montana, may be the last refuge of big vert and big snow without big crowds in our current version of U.S. America.Schweitzer, as it happens, is the largest ski area in the state. It also happens to be one of the most modern, along with Tamarack, which is not yet 20 years old, and Sun Valley, with its fleet of high-speed lifts. Schweitzer sports what was long the state's only six-pack (until Sun Valley upgraded Challenger this year), along with four high-speed quads. Of the remaining lifts, all are less than 20 years old with the exception of Sunnyside, a 1960s relic that is among the last artifacts of Old Schweitzer.Chasse tells us on the podcast that the ski area could add hundreds of acres of terrain simply by moving a boundary rope. So why not do it? Because the mountain, as it stands, absorbs everyone who shows up to ski it pretty well.A lot of the appeal of Idaho lies in the rough-and-tumble, in the dented-can feel of big, remote mountains towering forgotten in the hinterlands, centerpole doubles swinging empty up the incline. But that's changing, slowly, ski area by ski area. Schweitzer is way ahead of most on the upgrade progression, infrastructure built more like a Wasatch resort than that of its neighbors in Idaho and Washington. But the crowds – or relative lack of them – is still pure Idaho.Podcast NotesOn Schweitzer's masterplan Even though Schweitzer sits entirely on private land, the ski area published a masterplan similar to those of its Forest Service peers in 2018, outlining new lifts and terrain all over the mountain:Though that plan has changed somewhat (Creekside, for instance, was not included), Schweitzer has continued to make progress against it. Alterra, it seems, will keep pushing it down the assembly line.On the Alterra acquisitionIn July, I hosted Alterra CEO Jared Smith on the podcast. We discuss the Schweitzer acquisition at the 53:48 mark:On Alterra's megaresort ambitionsWithout explicitly saying so, Alterra has undertaken an aggressive cross-portfolio supercharging of several marquee properties. Last year, the company sewed together the Palisades and Alpine Meadows sides of its giant California resort with a 2.1-mile-long gondola:This year, Steamboat will open the second leg of its 3.1-mile-long, 10-passenger Wild Blue gondola and a several-hundred-acre terrain expansion (and attendant high-speed quad), on Mahogany Ridge:Earlier this year, Alterra announced a massive expansion that will make Deer Valley the fourth-largest ski area in America:Winter Park's 2022 masterplan update included several proposed terrain pods and a gondola linking mountain to town:If my email inbox is any indication, New England Alterra skiers – meaning loyalists at Stratton and Sugarbush – are getting inpatient. When will the Colorado-based company turn its cash cannon east? I don't know, but it will happen.On Mt. WittierChasse learned how to ski at Mt. Wittier, New Hampshire. I included a whole bit on this place in a recent newsletter:As far as ski area relics go, it's hard to find a more captivating artifact than the Mt. Whittier gondola. While the New Hampshire ski area has sat abandoned since the mid-1980s, towers for the four-passenger gondola still rise 1,300-vertical feet up the mountainside. Tower one stands, improbably, across New Hampshire State Highway 16, rising from a McDonald's parking lot. The still-intact haul rope stretches across this paved expanse and terminates at a garage-style door behind the property. Check it out:Jeremy Davis, founder of the New England Lost Ski Areas Project, told me an amazing story when he appeared on The Storm Skiing Podcast in 2019. A childhood glimpse of the abandoned Mt. Whittier ignited his mad pursuit to document the region's lost ski areas. Years later, he returned for a closer look. He visited the shop that now occupies the former gondola base building, and the owner offered to let him peek in the garage. There, dusty but intact, sat many, or perhaps all, of the lift's 35 four-passenger gondola cars. It's still one of my favorite episodes:A bizarre snowtubing outfit called “Mt. Madness” briefly operated around the turn of the century, according to New England Ski History. But other than the gondola, traces of the ski area have mostly disappeared. The forest cover is so thick that the original trail network is just scarcely visible on Google Maps.The entire 797-acre property is now for sale, listed at $3.2 million. The gondola barn, it appears, is excluded, as is the money-making cell tower at the summit. But there might be enough here to hack the ski area back out of the wilderness:Which would, of course, cost you a lot more than $3.2 million. Whittier has a decent location, west of King Pine and south of Conway. But it's on the wrong side of New Hampshire for easy interstate access, and we're on the wrong side of history for realistically building a ski area in New England. On the seasonal disruption of hunting in rural areasChasse points to hunting season as an unexpected operational disruption when he moved from New England to Idaho. If you've never lived in a rural area, it can be hard to appreciate how ingrained hunting is into local cultures. Where I grew up, in a small Michigan town, Nov. 15 – or “Deer Day,” as the first day of the state's two-week rifle-hunting season was colloquially known – was an official school holiday. Morning announcements would warn high-schoolers to watch out for sugar beets – popular deer bait – on M-30. It's a whole thing.On 2006 SchweitzerIt's hard to overstate just how much Schweitzer has evolved since the turn of the century. Until the Stella sixer arrived in 2000, the mountain was mostly a kingdom of pokey old double chairs, save for the Great Escape high-speed quad, which had arrived in 1990:The only lift from that trailmap that remains is Sunnyside, then known as Chair 4. The Stella sixer replaced Chair 5 in 2000; Chair 1 gave way to the Basin Express and Lakeview triple in 2007; Chair 6 (Snow Ghost), came down for the Cedar Park Express quad and Colburn triple in 2019; and Creekside replaced Chair 2 (Musical Chairs), this past summer. In 2005, Schweitzer opened up an additional peak to lift service with the Idyle Our T-bar.While lifts are (usually) a useful proxy for measuring a resort's modernization progress, they barely begin to really quantify the extreme changes at Schweitzer over the past few decades. Note, too, the parking lots that once lined the mountain at the Chair 2 summit – land that's since been repurposed for a village.On Schweitzer's proximity to Powder Highway/BC mountainsMany reference materials stop listing ski areas at the top of America, as though that is the northern border of our ski world. But stop ignoring that big chunk of real estate known as “Canada,” and Schweitzer suddenly sits in a far more interesting neighborhood. The ski area could be considered the southern-most stop on the Powder Highway, just down the road from Red and Whitewater, not far from Kimberley and Fernie, skiable on the same circuit as Revelstoke, Sun Peaks, Silver Star, Big White, Panorama, and Castle. It's a compelling roadtrip:Yes, there area lot more ski areas in there, but these are most of the huge ones. And no, I don't know if all of these roads are open in the winter – the point here is to show the overall density, not program your GPS.On Alterra's varying approach to its owned mountains on the Ikon PassAlterra, unlike Vail, does not treat all of its mountains equally on the top-tier Ikon Pass. Here's how the company's owned mountains sit on the various Ikon tiers:On cheap I-90 lift ticketsI've written about this a bunch of times, but the stretch of I-90 from Spokane to the Idaho-Montana border offers some of the most affordable big-mountain lift tickets in the country. Here's a look at 2022-23 walk-up lift ticket prices for the five mountains stretched across the region:Next season's rates aren't live yet, but I expect them to be similar.On Alterra lift ticket pricesI don't expect Schweitzer's lift tickets to stay proportionate to the rest of the region for long. Here are Alterra's top anticipated 2023-24 walk-up lift ticket rates at its owned resorts:On Bogus Basin's reciprocal lift ticket programI mentioned Bogus Basin's extensive reciprocal lift ticket program. It's pretty badass, as the ski area is a member of both the Freedom Pass and Powder Alliance, and has set up a bunch of independent reciprocals besides:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 97/100 in 2023, and number 483 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? 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The Swerski Crew is back and talking about the absolute trainwreck that is the Chicago Bears, TA gone from the White Sox, Stroman gone from the Cubs. All this and more on the latest Swerski Sports. Make sure to follow us on: Twitter: @SwerskiSports Facebook: /SwerskiSports www.SwerskiSports.com youtube.com/SwerskiSports https://feeds.feedblitz.com/-/817837904/0/billswerskissportstalkchicago.mp3 and subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher or the TuneIn app Click the icon below to listen.      Related StoriesPodcast: The Bears are a trainwreck on Sunday Night FootballPodcast: Bears notch win over Raiders, Bulls ready for season, Bedard's first home goalPodcast: Bears blow another division game, Blackhawks looking decent, White Sox miss opportunity 

In this fantastic bonus episode, we chat with Squamish, BC resident Amber Turnau who tells us the ins and outs of the best ski resorts in British Columbia, Canada the massive province that we all know and love and home to some of the best ski resorts in the world. Beginning on the west coast,  The resorts start at Vancouver Island's Mount Washington Alpine Resort. Then, as you make your way to the mainland, head up the fabulous Sea to Sky Highway to Whistler Blackcomb host venue for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. As you make your way inland to the Okanagan Region (one of BC's wine regions), you'll find the resorts Silver Star,  Big White, Sun Peaks and Apex.Onto the south east corner of BC - The Kootenays, bordering the neighbouring province of Alberta are home to fabulous resorts that make up the Powder Highway like Fernie, Crossland (Red Mountain)  Revelstoke, Panorama, Kicking Horse, and Kimberley.The resorts of BC are like nowhere on Earth and so worth the trip, it was great catching up with Amber and getting the inside track on axe throwing and graded tree runs, we can't wait to get back out there :)for more info: hellobc.com/ski@HelloBC”In the meantime Happy Skiing :). Please do leave a review it's the only way other like minded skiers get to find us! And don't forget to check us out on the following channels inthesnow.comyoutube.com/inthesnowmagfacebook.com/inthesnowinstagram.com/inthesnowand contact us with your suggestions for further episodes at hello@InTheSnow.com

Season 61, Episodes 1-5, Spoiler Level MS (Medium Spoilers) Dante and Sam join Cody and Sasha in the safe house cabin in the woods with fresh air, Anna's room is ransacked with ink and not blood, Tracy and Blair reveal their entire plots to each other over a single dinner, and Nik is going to … Continue reading Ep 39: The Fab Four UNITE!… and we meet someone new with big white shoes →

John Podesta — unofficially America's adrenochrome Rasputin — is now advising Biden on “combating inflation.” Senior advisor John Podesta gives a White House press conference August 16, 2023 on the Inflation Reduction Act and related policy. Will combating inflation require silencing your critics, and attacking Bitcoin? Lol. These DC boomers are paint by numbers predictable. Just old windbags who inherited their money. They could have studied up on Bitcoin, but their arrogance and pre-occupation with things like Epstein Island and the “pizza torture chamber” (what is that anyway, John?) prevented them from a proper deep dive and re-focus on the next century's needs. Elites, caught in the past, with no way forward, and no clear pivot into modernity. Podesta kept some strange company, as the emails revealed in 2016. —FULCRUM Research

Welcome to this weeks rendition of the Young Bucks Podcast!This week is the final week before we begin our journey of adventuring into a book called Undistracted that we will read in order to share with you what we are learning.This week we discuss what big white balls did in Henry's life this week, Chris new job and birthday and much much more!

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This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on June 13. It dropped for free subscribers on June 16. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe for free below:WhoDarcy Alexander, Vice President and General Manager of Sun Peaks, British ColumbiaRecorded onMay 23, 2023About Sun PeaksClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Nippon Cable CompanyLocated in: Sun Peaks, British ColumbiaYear founded: 1961, as Tod MountainPass affiliations: Ikon Pass: 5 or 7 days; Mountain Collective: 2 daysReciprocal partners: 2 days at Silver StarClosest neighboring ski areas: Harper Mountain (58 minutes), Silver Star (2 hours, 20 minutes)Base elevation: 3,930 feetSummit elevation: 6,824 feetVertical drop: 2,894 feetSkiable Acres: 4,270Average annual snowfall: 237 inchesTrail count: 138 trails and 19 glades (32% advanced/expert, 58% intermediate, 10% beginner)Lift count: 13 (3 high-speed quads, 4 fixed-grip quads, 2 platters, 4 carpets - view Lift Blog's inventory of Sun Peaks' lift fleet) – Sun Peaks will build a fourth high-speed quad, West Bowl Express, in 2024Why I interviewed himBecause this freaking province, man. Twenty-nine ski areas with vertical drops over 1,000 feet. Fourteen soar beyond 2,000. Five cross the 3,000-foot mark. Four pass 4,000. And BC is home to the only two ski areas in North America that give you 5,000 or more vertical feet: Whistler and King Revelstoke. Thirteen BC bumps deliver 1,000-plus acres of terrain, and at least 20 load up on 200 inches or more of snow per season. Check these stats:British Columbia is like the Lamborghini dealership of skiing. Lots of power, lots of flash, lots of hot damn is that real? No duds. Nothing you'd be embarrassed to pick up a date in. A few community bumps, sure. But the BC Bros can stack their power towers – Big White, Fernie, Kicking Horse, Kimberley, Panorama, Red, Revelstoke, Silver Star, Sun Peaks, Whistler, and Whitewater – against any collection of ski areas anywhere on the planet and feel pretty good about winning that knife fight.And yet, even in this Seal Team Six of ski resorts, Sun Peaks looks heroic, epaulets and medals dangling from its dress blues. This is the second-largest ski area in Canada. Ponder that BC ski roster again to understand what that means: Sun Peaks gives you more acreage than anything on the famed Powder Highway, more than Revy or Red or Kicking Horse or Fernie. Turn north at Kamloops, east at Hefley Creek, and get lost at the end of the valley.But Sun Peaks' sheer size is less impressive than how the resort won those big-mountain stats. “British Columbia has probably the most progressive ski resort development policy in the world,” Alexander tells me in the podcast. When he arrived at the bump that was then called “Tod Mountain” in 1993, the place was three chairlifts and some surface movers serving a single peak:Over the next 30 years, Nippon Cable transformed the joint into a vast ski Narnia not only because they were willing to funnel vast capital into the hill, but because the BC government let them do it, under a set of rules known as the B.C. Commercial Alpine Ski policy. While inspiring, this is not an unusual ski area evolution tale for Western Canada. Compare the 10 largest BC ski areas today to the 10 largest in 1994:The acreage explosions at all but Whistler-Blackcomb (which at the time operated as independent ski areas), are astonishing. To underscore the point, check out the same years' comparison for the 10-largest U.S. ski areas:Certainly, the U.S. has seen some dramatic shuffling, especially as Vail and Alterra combined Canyons with Park City and Alpine Meadows with the ski area formerly known as Squaw Valley to form the megaresorts of Park City and Palisades Tahoe. That Big Sky didn't measure on the top 10 in 1994 – the tram didn't arrive until 1995 – is amazing. But the Western U.S., in 1994, was already home to legions of enormous ski resorts. That Heavenly, Mammoth, and Jackson Hole are the exact same size today as they were 29 years ago illustrates the difference between the two countries' attitudes toward ski resort expansion and development. Canada nurtures growth. The U.S. makes it as difficult as possible. Indeed, the reason Big Sky was able to ascend to monster status is that the resort sits entirely on private land, immunizing it from Forest Service bureaucracy and the endless public challenges that attend it.Sun Peaks is a case study in BC's development-friendly policies actualized. More important: the resort's evolution is a case study in smart, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly development. Alexander explains in the podcast that the long-range goal has been to build not just walkable base villages, but a walkable community stretching from one end of the valley to the other. This is the point that's so often missed in the United States: not all growth and development is bad. The reckless, developer-driven, luxury-focused, disconnected sprawl that is U.S. America's default building mode is terrible and inhuman and ought to be curtailed. Deliberate, dense, interconnected, metered development based upon a community masterplan - which is what Sun Peaks is doing - should be encouraged.This sort of thoughtful growth does not dilute mountain communities. It creates them. Rather than trying to freeze development in time – a posture that only kicks sprawl ever farther out from the mountains and leads directly to the traffic addling so many Western U.S. ski towns – BC has enabled and empowered the sort of place-building that will create sustainable mountain communities over the long term. It's an inspiring model, and one that The Storm will examine intensely as I focus more deliberately on Canada.What we talked aboutRecord skier visits; bringing back that international vibe; touring Western Canada; Sun Peaks' first season on the Ikon Pass; the secret giant; how to dodge what few liftlines the resort has; the Mountain Collective as Ikon test run; Tod Mountain in the early 1990s; ski area masterplanning; Sunshine Village; growing Sun Peaks from backwater to the second-largest ski area in Canada; Nippon Cable, the Japanese lift manufacturer that owns Sun Peaks; why Sun Peaks doesn't use Nippon lifts; why Sun Peaks changed its name from “Tod Mountain” in 1993; an interesting tidbit about Whistler ownership; whether Sun Peaks ever considered joining the Epic Pass; Sun Peaks' masterplan; potential terrain expansions; upgrade potential for Sunburst and Sundance lifts; future lift additions; “the guy who serves the most ski terrain with the fewest lifts is the most efficient”; going deep on the coming West Bowl Express quad and the new terrain that will go along with it; why Sun Peaks retired the West Bowl T-bar before replacing it; better access to Gil's; why Sun Peaks is building the lift over three summers; the amazing Burfield lift, a fixed-grip quad that stretches nearly 3,000 vertical feet; potentially shortening that lift; why Burfield will likely never be a high-speed lift; prioritizing lift projects after West Bowl; converting – not replacing – Orient from a fixed-grip quad to a high-speed quad or six-pack; village-building; the potential major lift that's not on Sun Peaks' masterplan; and potentially connecting the resort to the Trans-Canada highway by paved road from the east.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewIn April, Sun Peaks announced construction of a new high-speed quad in West Bowl for the 2024-25 ski season. The lift will replace the West Bowl T-bar, visible on this circa 2019 trailmap, on a longer line that pushes the boundary away from the 7 Mile Road trail:The resort will lengthen the existing trails to meet the new lift's load point down the mountain, as Alexander explains in the podcast.This will be Sun Peaks' third new chairlift in three years, following new fixed-grip quads at Crystal and Orient in 2020 and 2018, respectively. Sun Peaks approaches chairlift construction in a unique manner, with a history of building lifts as fixed-grip machines and then upgrading them to high-speed lifts later on. Orient, for example, may evolve into a high-speed six-pack that lands several hundred more feet up the mountain. Slowly, deliberately, endlessly, Sun Peaks grows and evolves.While Alexander and his team continue to stack bricks into the resort's foundation, they simultaneously grow the mountain's profile. A few years back, the resort joined the Mountain Collective. Last October, it joined Ikon. And, kaboom: no more secret at the end of the road.That's a good thing. If these BC giants are to thrive, they're going to need help outside the province, which hosts a population of approximately 5 million in an area the size of California (39 million residents), Colorado (5.8 million), and Utah (3.4 million) combined. That means bringing skiers burned out on Summit County and Wasatch liftlines across the border, where big ski resorts continue to get bigger and the liftlines rarely form (outside of the West Coast).I don't want to overstate the scale of what's happening in BC – certainly big projects still can and do happen in America. And even as they grow fat by North American standards, most of the province's biggest ski areas still look like birdbaths compared to the ski circuses of Europe. But imagine if, over the next 30 years, 480-acre Ski Cooper transformed into 5,317-acre Vail Mountain. That is essentially what's happened at Sun Peaks since 1993, where a small community bump evolved into an international destination resort 10 times its original size. And they're nowhere near finished – Sun Peaks' masterplan (pg. 141), outlines a monster facility at full build-out:The Mountain Master Plan … will ultimately include a total of 26 ski lifts, including one pulse gondola, one 10G/8C Combi lift one detachable grip six-passenger chairlift, four detachable quadruple chairlifts, nine fixed grip quadruple chairlifts, four platter lifts and approximately two beginner moving carpet lifts, with a total combined rated capacity of about 41,186 passengers per hour … The overall Phase 4 [Skier Comfortable Carrying Capacity] will be approximately 14,830 skiers per day. … there will be 225 trails providing 177.5 kilometers of skiing on [1,895 acres] of terrain.Here's a conceptual map of Sun Peaks at full build-out:While plenty of BC ski areas have evolved over the past several decades, no one has accomplished the trick more steadily or with such deliberate, constant momentum as Sun Peaks. It was time to check in to see how they'd done it, and what was going to happen next.What I got wrongAs is my habit, I introduced Sun Peaks as defined by our U.S. American measurement system of feet and acres. Which is not that unusual – this is a U.S. American-based podcast. However, as a courtesy to my Canadian guests, listeners, and readers, I should have also offered the equivalent measurements in meters. Only I am a dumb U.S. American so I don't actually know how to do these conversions. Sorry about that.Why you should ski Sun PeaksThe Ikon Pass is an incredible thing. Purchase one in the spring and spend the following winter bouncing across the snowy horizons. Hit half a dozen of the continent's greatest resorts in Utah, big-mountain hop in Colorado, spend a week in Tahoe or skimming between peaks at Big Sky. Or go to Canada – 10 Ikon destinations sit in the northland, and seven of them crouch in a neat circle straddling BC and Alberta: Norquay, Lake Louise, Sunshine, Panorama, Red, Sun Peaks, and Revelstoke:You could complete that circle in around 17 hours of driving. Which is not much if you're rolling through a two-week roadie and spending two or three days at each resort. Some of them could occupy far more time. Sun Peaks can eat up a week pretty easily. But for the resort-hoppers among us, an Ikon or Mountain Collective pass includes days at Canada's second-largest ski area on its ready-to-eat buffet. Here's a look at every Canadian ski area that participates in a U.S.-based megapass:So the first reason to ski Sun Peaks is that you probably already have access to it. But there's something else – you can just go there and ski. As much as I love the ski resorts of Colorado and Utah, they are just too easy to access for too many people. That's great, but skiing in those powder holes requires a certain patience, an expectation of some kind of madness, a willingness to tweak the algorithm to see what combination of snowfall, open terrain, day of the week, and time of day yields the most open path between you and turns.That calculus is a little easier at Sun Peaks: just show up whenever you want and start skiing. Outside of Whistler, the big-mountain resorts of BC resemble the big-mountain resorts of the American West 40 years ago. Endless labyrinths of untamed terrain, no one to race off the ropeline. BC's collective ski resorts have evolved much faster than the market's realization that there is another set of Rocky Mountain resorts stacked on top of the Rocky Mountain resorts of U.S. America. That's a lot of terrain to roam. And all you need is a passport. Go get it.Podcast NotesOn building an alternate route into Sun Peaks from the eastMost visitors to Sun Peaks are going to spend some time traveling to the resort along the Trans-Canada Highway. Eastbound travelers will simply turn north at Kamloops and then right at Heffley Creek. Westbound travelers pass within five miles of the resort's southeast edge as they drive through Chase, but must continue toward Kamloops before turning toward Sun Peaks – nearly an hour and a half on clear roads. There is a mountain road, unpaved and impassable in wintertime (marked in yellow below), and long-simmering plans for an alternate, less death-defying paved path that could be open year-round (market in blue below). Alexander and I discussed this road, and he seemed optimistic that it will, eventually, get built. Given Sun Peaks' record of actualizing the improbable, I share his outlook. Here's a map of the whole mess:On Nippon Cable and WhistlerWhile Sun Peaks presents as an independent ski area, it is in fact part of a Japan-based conglomerate called Nippon Cable. This is primarily a lift manufacturer, but Nippon also owns a number of ski areas in Japan and 25 percent of Whistler (seriously). Read more about their properties here.On Big Bam ski areaAlexander mentions Big Bam ski area, which sits along the Pine River just west of the Alaska Highway and south of Fort St. John. Here's a homemade trailmap that someone codenamed “Skier72” posted on skimap.org, with the caption, “Approx. Trails at Big Bam. Made with Google Earth. Top lift is future quad chair, bottom lift is rope tow”:Big Bam is a volunteer-run, weekends-only organization with 180 feet of vert. You can follow them on Facebook (their last Instapost was in 2014). Alexander mentioned that the ski area had moved from its original location, though I couldn't find any information on the old hill. The place has had a rough go – it re-opened (I believe in the current location), in 2009, and was closed from 2016 to 2019 before turning the lifts on again. They seem desperate for a chairlift. If anyone knows more about the Big Bam story, please let me know.On Sun Peaks spare lift fleetAlexander notes that Sun Peaks “might have the least number of lifts for a resort of our size” on the continent. Indeed, the ski area has the third-fewest number of lifts among North America's 10 largest ski areas:On the Burfield chairliftStow this one for ski club trivia night: Sun Peaks is home to what is very likely the longest fixed-grip chairlift in the world. The Burfield quad rises 2,890 vertical feet on a 9,510-foot-long line. According to Lift Blog, ride time is 21 minutes, and the carriers are 115 feet apart. The lift's hourly capacity is just 470 riders – compare that to the Crystal fixed-grip quad right beside it, which can move up to 2,400 skiers per hour.The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 50/100 in 2023, and number 436 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

S5 E38 - The Orioles and Yankees are making up ground, but something's gotta give as they begin a three-game set against each other. The Nuggets completed their sweep of the Lakers while the Heat prepare to try to finish off the Celtics in like fashion; what can we expect from a Nuggets/Heat final? Follow us on Twitter @Sportsballers18, @evan_ash13, @CoryPuffett and @QuagMeyer67

Today we find out that Bad Larry thinks all white guys look alike, also the guys give their picks for this week's NBA playoff games. Shea explains why he likes betting on the White Sox and why he didn't make it to Sports Haven. Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today I speak with Jeff Lightsy Jr about the reports that Deion Sanders is leaving Jackson State

Penn State returned home coming off their first loss of the season to Michigan and ended the night with their 6th win! The Nittany Lions defeated Minnesota 45-17 in front of a ton of big time recruits and a White Out crowd! Tyler Donohue and Daniel Gallen break down the big win over the Gophers and discuss Penn State's 2022 season moving forward! Follow the guys on Twitter: @TDsTake @LanceGlinn247 @danieljtgallen Follow or subscribe to the Lions247 Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

00:00 - Canada's biggest grocer is freezing prices on all its No Name products until next year as double-digit food inflation sends grocery bills skyrocketing. Guest: Sylvain Charlebois, Director of Agri Food Analytics lab at Dalhousie University 07:44 - How scary is too scary when it comes to Halloween lawn decorations. Guest: Raji Sohal, CKNW Contributor 12:48 - Winter is drawing closer and many ski resorts, like Big White near Kelowna, are gearing up for another season. Guest: Michael J. Ballingall, senior vice president at Big White Ski Resort.  21:00 - What do you do to cope with water restrictions when your business relies on water to make its product? Guest: Brian Smith, co-owner and CEO Persephone Brewing 25:55 -A Vancouver Island fast food chain owner has given long-time employees free vacations as a thank-you for being loyal employees. Guest: Jason Kelland, A&W Franchise owner. 32:02 - After many municipalities voted for change, something different happened on the North Shore. Guest: CKNW Contributor Raji interviewed West Vancouver mayor-elect Mark Sager 40:00 - Vancouver's mayor-elect Ken Sim is wasting no time preparing his transition to power. Guest: Ken Sim, Vancouver Mayor Elect.

A brace and a penalty miss from Harry Kane headlined Tottenham Hotspur win over Nottingham Forest in the Premier League. Match reactions & analysis now in our latest episode. Check it out! Late Night Football is also available on the following channels: iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-late-night-football-show/id1510270353 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0PPgcvuaWbUMYWR9WWzH43 If you're a sports fan and have a Facebook account, check out Fox in the Box, a great group for sports-minded discussions and opinions. Click here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/FoxInTheBoxFC You can also follow us on the following channels: Twitter - https://twitter.com/HumourFooty Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Late-Night-Football-113739890317495

Big White ski resort in Kelowna, Canada is the site of the 2022 Spartan North American championships. We did some sleuthing and lay down some tips on how to nail the course and how to maximize your post-race fun!  Faye Jess Coaching Website Listen to this and all Nitty Gritty episodes here.

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This week on HRIN...we talk more about how awesome Chicago is, mother in laws sleeping in their kids beds, hypocritical congressmen and a whole bunch more! And FYI, apparently giving puberty blockers to children as young as 5 years old isn't a good idea...WHO KNEW?! Some join us for the crazy!!

Every year I go into Shark Week with a positive mindset in hope that it will provide some great programs and some great cinematography and I would like to hope that it won't play into the fear-mongering, but that was not the case for the first news piece that I saw from CNN (who owns Discovery). A clear promotional video starts off with fear of shark sightings and bites then into one of the dumbest things a person can do when being around a white shark. I will tell you why it was so dumb in this upcoming rant.   Link to video: https://youtu.be/j0chL87gPag   Sign up to find out about the audio Ocean Conservation Careers members group: https://bit.ly/38ak7Z8   Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3NmYvsI Connect with Speak Up For Blue: Website: https://bit.ly/3fOF3Wf Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rIaJSG Twitter: https://bit.ly/3rHZxpc 

In the third hour, Dan Bernstein and Laurence Holmes were joined by White Sox television analyst Steve Stone to discuss the team's 12-2 rout of the Twins on Thursday in the opener of their big four-game set against the Twins, why its time for outfielder Eloy Jimenez to become a designated hitter and much more. Later, Holmes shared his experience at the Double Duty Classic, a celebration of the best inner-city high school players in the country, presented by White Sox Charities. 

Davey and Adam discuss some odd public restroom experiences they've encountered...

For the past three years under the cloak of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, official pandemic prevention staff dressed in white protection gear have been a common site across China. Chinese have given them the nickname, “big whites.” The big whites—who some refer to as “White Guards” to mark the end of the CCP’s […]

Alabama goes on the hunt for John Morris...Pickles is unhappy with Caucasians and gives a detailed breakdown on why they're the worst on the planet and how their time is up, white devils that is. Pickles and Alabama prove once and for all that we CAN all get along...Big Finish

EPISODE 928 Synopsis: 4/25/22-LIVE WWE RAW recap as WWE celebrates Randy Orton's 20th Anniversary! Mustafa Ali and Asuka returns! Sunny Tammy Sytch news as she tells a white lie about her car crash that killed someone and loads more! Hosted by 411MANIA.COM columnist and reporter Lee Sanders.-Tammy Sytch tries to tell a big white lie that will come back to bite her big time!-Bret Hart possibly rejoining WWE thoughts-Bret Hart still teaming with FTR, just not in AEW...-WWE RAW recap-AEW DARK ELEVATION 4/25/22 Preview-AEW DARK 4/26/22 Preview-Wrestling TV Ratings for week of 4/19/22-LOADS MORE!!!BROUGHT TO YOU IN PART BY NATURE & MOONLIGHT SKINCARE PRODUCTS AT WWW.MYNMSKINCARE.COM WHERE THEY OFFER THE VERY BEST HAIRCARE PRODUCTS AND SOAPS FOR SKINCARE INCLUDING ACNE! WANT TO LOOK AND FEEL YOUR BEST? VISIT NATURE & MOONLIGHT SKINCARE PRODUCTS AT MYNMSKINCARE.COMSUPPORT THE SHOW FOR EVEN MORE GREAT, NEW, AND EXCLUSIVE CONTENT! PATREON: patreon.com/rcwrshow​​​​LISTEN THE RCWR SHOW ON THE FOLLOWING PLATFORMS:AMAZON MUSIC & AUDIBLE! https://rebrand.ly/jdt4b9vITUNES: https://rb.gy/rsax57PANDORA! https://rb.gy/3v3oc8iHEARTRADIO: https://rb.gy/j0isjnSTITCHER: http://bit.ly/1yByytu​​​​TUNE IN: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--R...===========================FOLLOW THE RCWR SHOW ALL THROUGHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA!!!http://www.twitter.com/TheRCWRshowhttp://www.Twitch.tv/RCWRshowhttp://www.YouTube.com/THERCWRSHOWhttp://www.instagram.com/THERCWRSHOWhttp://www.facebook.com/THERCWRSHOW#WWE #WWERAW #TammySytch #Sunny #WWESunny #AEW #Wrestling #Podcast #Podcasts

Thursday regular and Vancouver sportscaster, Scott Rintoul joined Matt and Blake. Started off talking about the 49ers win over the Packers. Talked about the other games it reminded him of. Talked about his thoughts on Patrik Allvin. Being Swedish alone is fitting enough. Ownership deserves credit for this. Knows they are spending money after they lured people away from other teams. Talked about Émilie Castonguay. Says the women being brought in isn’t tokenism. They are clearly qualified for the job. For her to leave what she was doing shows you that this is a very good opportunity. Talked about Ryan Johnson. Believes the Sedin’s would endorse a move up within the organization. Scotty sees a more prominent roll within the Canucks FO. Answered the poll question. A market has already established itself with JT Miller. He could fetch a haul. Talked about what he sees happening in the Canucks crease. Has seen enough from Martin that he could move ahead of Halak. Nothing against Jaro but there are financial implications. Talked about Michael Reilly. Didn’t have a good sense that he’d be back after the way the season ended. His body has taken a beating. Scotty has not seen a tougher QB in any league. He is as tough as anybody. Couldn’t believe he was getting up after some hits in EDM. He was a great leader there. He is a better person than a player. The player will likely find his way into the Hall of Fame. Talked about who will come into replace him in BC.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the longest episode to date, and it's jam-packed full of fun content for your listening pleasure. It includes a song I wrote with my friend Marigold, an interview with Marigold (the very first guest star of this podcast), and Lucius Jones' write up of his party at Sunset Casino that he's been advertising for the past few weeks!Follow Marigold @reverent_marigoldFind me elsewhere at:WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1B803QV1LJFXJ?refPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheWoodmotherETSY: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheWoodmother?TIKTOK: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeNsmHPP/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thewoodmother/?hl=enYOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/c/TheWoodmother

Top stories today: Vaccination aggravation So, people got some good news yesterday. If you were 55-65, you could get your vaccine today! It all went super smooth!... not.  Big white embarrasses itself Videos are circulating online of a huge, loud, noisy party at Big White. Well, most of those people are now fired. Is that.. Legal? Olympics 2030 Here we go again Much more in the full episode! _____________ NAVIGATE THE PODCAST:  Chapter 1 Vaccine mayhem at pharmacies around the province Just another case of good news leading to bad news. The Province announced yesterday that vaccines would be made available for those in the 55-65 demographic. Well, it didn't pan out the way they hope. Chapter 2 How do we solve the opioid crisis? Stuff is in the works that may help  We talk to Dr. Vijay Seethapathy, Chief Medical Officer at BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Chapter 3 Big white terminates more staff, is it lawful? Aliya Virani has the legal basis for these terminations, and where maybe it isn't legal.  Aliya is an associate, Associate at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP Chapter 4 The Rio Theatre, closed again Corinne Lea joins us again. They've had a rough go of things, to say the least.  Chapter 5 BC Liberals demand action from Horgan on restaurants  Should the BC NDP be doing more to support restaurants that will have to close and limit their businesses for the next, who knows how long? Todd Stone tells us why the answer is yes. Chapter 6 Olympic discussion at city council today While no major decisions are set to be made for some time, it is being discussed at City Council. We first touch base with Reporter Bob Mackin, and then talk to a city councillor. Rebecca Bligh tells us what happened today. Chapter 7 Why can't this province communicate effectively? They essentially went, ‘Surprise! Vaccinate 55-65 year olds!'  _____________ Remember to wash your hands, practice physical distancing, and stay home at all costs if you are sick. We're not out of the woods yet!    The Lynda Steele Full Show podcast includes all the individual segments that can be found on the Lynda Steele Show page, digitally stitched together for your convenience.    Listen live online at globalnews.ca/radio/cknw/ 3-6 PM!

In this special episode, Brian and Chap are joined by a few members of Brian's family. Mark Schoening, Brian's Dad, as well as Chris Wilsey, Brian's cousin and fellow team member at Rerouted join the show to share a fun story about overcoming adversity in the outdoors, specifically out on the ski slopes. As an introduction to winter sports on the podcast, we travel back in time many many many years - to a particularly eventful family vacation at Big White, in Kelowna, BC.

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