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Spring is the time of year when the Big Dipper climbs higher into the northern sky, but the Big Dipper is not itself a constellation. It's only part of a much larger group called Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It also makes for a great guidepost to other stars and constellations!

The drink:The Gimlet: https://www.liquor.com/recipes/gimlet/Bears and Rolls Royces and Mercedeses, oh my!https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/california-bear-costume-car-insurance-fraudFlorida man has secret underground lair:https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article298231938.htmlMonkeys escape (our theory is they used the "3 monkeys in a trenchcoat" method):https://www.today.com/news/escaped-monkeys-south-carolina-rcna179160No bathroom breaks in the mosh pit:https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-75-leather-mosh-pit-diaper-lets-you-pee-yourself-at-concerts/Fascism didn't get this Falconer Fired, but his Phallus did:https://apnews.com/article/lazio-eagle-falconer-fired-cc2e23c88825aa76f2759e5144f6caecFOOD NOW . . . WALK NOW . . . OUTSIDE NOW . . . CAR NOWhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240828154926.htmSiri's listening, even when you don't think she is:https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-pay-95-million-settle-siri-privacy-lawsuit-2025-01-02/Contact Info:Hate-mail, questions or topic ideas for the show, hit us up on twitter at @LiquoredUpLD or email us at liquoreduplowdown@gmail.com. Bryan can be reached on Bluesky at @realbryansullins.bsky.social.  Tom can be reached on twitter @Intelligiant2.Find more of Bryan at:https://thinkingoutcloud.org/Find Tom as Donnie Kruger at:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_oaVG9YC-lZ9Lao50t-hzw

The body and tail of the Great Bear are well known. They form the Big Dipper. But you have to go a long way from the dipper to find the bear’s nose. It is marked by Muscida – a name that means “muzzle.” Muscida is much bigger and brighter than the Sun. It’s also much more massive than the Sun, so it’s aged out in a hurry. It’s used up the hydrogen in its core, and is getting ready to move to the next major phase of life – even though it’s four billion years younger than the Sun. The star has at least one companion, and maybe two. The confirmed companion is a planet. It’s bigger and heavier than Jupiter, the giant of our own solar system. It orbits Muscida at about four times the distance from Earth to the Sun. At that range, the planet is likely to get roasted as Muscida enters the next phase, which will make the star much puffier and brighter. The “maybe” companion is a small, faint star that’s billions of miles away. Astronomers haven’t watched the stars long enough to confirm that they’re bound to each other. But the stars share a common motion through space, which is much faster than the stars around them. That suggests the system is a runaway – zipping through space in a big hurry – perhaps destined to leave the galaxy behind. The Big Dipper is standing upright as night falls, with the bowl above the handle. Muscida is well above the dipper. Unless you’re in a light-polluted city, it’s easy to see. Script by Damond Benningfield

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Jan. 22. It dropped for free subscribers on Jan. 29. 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:Who* Travis Kearney, General Manager* Aaron Damon, Assistant General Manager, Marketing Director* Mike Chasse, member of Bigrock Board of Directors* Conrad Brown, long-time ski patroller* Neal Grass, Maintenance ManagerRecorded onDecember 2, 2024About BigrockOwned by: A 501c(3) community nonprofit overseen by a local board of directorsLocated in: Mars Hill, MainePass affiliations: Indy Base Pass, Indy Plus Pass – 2 days, no blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Quoggy Jo (:26), Lonesome Pine (1:08)Base elevation: 670 feetSummit elevation: 1,590 feetVertical drop: 920 feetSkiable acres: 90Average annual snowfall: 94 inchesTrail count: 29 (10% beginner, 66% intermediate, 24% advanced)Lift count: 4 (1 fixed-grip quad, 1 triple, 1 double, 1 surface lift – view Lift Blog's inventory of Bigrock's lift fleet)Why I interviewed themWelcome to the tip-top of America, where Saddleback is a ski area “down south” and $60 is considered an expensive lift ticket. Have you ever been to Sugarloaf, stationed four hours north of Boston at what feels like the planet's end? Bigrock is four hours past that, 26 miles north of the end of I-95, a surveyor's whim from Canadian citizenship. New England is small, but Maine is big, and Aroostook County is enormous, nearly the size of Vermont, larger than Connecticut, the second-largest county east of the Mississippi, 6,828 square miles of mostly rivers and trees and mountains and moose, but also 67,105 people, all of whom need something to do in the winter.That something is Bigrock. Ramble this far north and you probably expect ascent-by-donkey or centerpole double chairs powered by butter churns. But here we have a sparkling new Doppelmayr fixed quad summiting at a windfarm. Shimmering new snowguns hammering across the night. America's eastern-most ski area, facing west across the continent, a white-laced arena edging the endless wilderness.Bigrock is a fantastic thing, but also a curious one. Its origin story is a New England yarn that echoes all the rest – a guy named Wendell, shirtsleeves-in-the-summertime hustle and surface lifts, let's hope the snow comes, finally some snowguns and a chairlift just in time. But most such stories end with “and that's how it became a housing development.” Not this one. The residents of this state-sized county can ski Bigrock in 2025 because the folks in charge of the bump made a few crucial decisions at a few opportune times. In that way, the ski area is a case study not only of the improbable survivor, but a blueprint for how today's on-the-knife-edge independent bumps can keep spinning lifts in the uncertain decades to come.What we talked aboutHuge snowmaking upgrades; a new summit quad for the 2024-25 ski season; why the new lift follows a different line from the old summit double; why the Gemini summit double remains in place; how the new chair opens up the mountain's advanced terrain; why the lift is called “Sunrise”; a brief history of moving the Gemini double from Maine's now-defunct Evergreen ski area; the “backyard engineering degree”; how this small, remote ski area could afford a brand-new $4 million Doppelmayr quad; why Bigrock considered, but ultimately decided against, repurposing a used lift to replace Gemini; why the new lift is a fixed-grip, rather than a detachable, machine; the windfarm at Bigrock's summit; Bigrock in the 1960s; the Pierce family legacy; how Covid drove certain skiers to Bigrock while keeping other groups away; how and why Bigrock became a nonprofit; what nearly shuttered the ski area; “I think there was a period in the late ‘70s, early ‘80s where it became not profitable to own a ski area of this size”; why Bigrock's nonprofit board of directors works; the problem with volunteers; “every kid in town, if they wanted to ski, they were going to ski”; the decline of meatloaf culture; and where and when Bigrock could expand the trail footprint.Why now was a good time for this interviewIn our high-speed, jet-setting, megapass-driven, name-brand, social-media-fueled ski moment, it is fair to ask this question of any ski area that does not run multiple lifts equipped with tanning beds and bottle service: why do you still exist, and how?I often profile ski areas that have no business being in business in 2025: Plattekill, Magic Mountain, Holiday Mountain, Norway Mountain, Bluewood, Teton Pass, Great Bear, Timberline, Mt. Baldy, Whitecap, Black Mountain of Maine. They are, in most cases, surrounded both by far more modernized facilities and numerous failed peers. Some of them died and punched their way out of the grave. How? Why are these hills the ones who made it?I keep telling these stories because each is distinct, though common elements persist: great natural ski terrain, stubborn owners, available local skiers, and persistent story-building that welds a skier's self-image to the tale of mountain-as-noble-kingdom. But those elements alone are not enough. Every improbably successful ski area has a secret weapon. Black Mountain of Maine has the Angry Beavers, a group of chainsaw-wielding volunteers who have quietly orchestrated one of New England's largest ski area expansions over the past decade, making it an attractive busy-day alternative to nearby Sunday River. Great Bear, South Dakota is a Sioux Falls city park, insulating the business from macro-economic pressures and enabling it to buy things like new quad chairlifts. Magic, surrounded by Epkon megaships, is the benefactor of marketing and social-media mastermind Geoff Hatheway, who has crafted a rowdy downhome story that people want to be a part of.And Bigrock? Well, that's what we're here for. How on earth did this little ski area teetering on the edge of the continental U.S. afford a brand-new $4 million chairlift? And a bunch of new snowmaking? And how did it not just go splat-I'm-dead years ago as destination ski areas to the north and south added spiderwebs of fast lifts and joined national mass-market passes? And how is it weathering the increasing costs of labor, utilities, infrastructure, and everything else?The answer lies, in part, in Bigrock's shift, 25 years or so ago, to a nonprofit model, which I believe many more community ski areas will have to adopt to survive this century. But that is just the foundation. What the people running the bump do with it matters. And the folks running Bigrock have found a way to make a modern ski area far from the places where you'd expect to find one.What I got wrongI said that “hundreds of lifts” had “come out in America over the past couple of years.” That's certainly an overcount. But I really had in mind the post-Covid period that began in 2021, so the past three to four years, which has seen a significant number of lift replacements. The best place to track these is Lift Blog's year-by-year new lifts databases: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (anticipated).I noted that there were two “nearby” ski areas in New Brunswick, the Canadian province bordering Maine. I was referring to 800-vertical-foot Crabbe Mountain, an hour and 20 minutes southeast of Bigrock, and Mont Farlagne, a 600-ish-footer an hour and a half north (neither travel time considers border-crossing delays). Whether these are “near” Bigrock is subjective, I suppose. Here are their trailmaps:Why you should ski BigrockFirst, ski Maine. Because it's gorgeous and remote and, because it takes work to get there, relatively uncrowded on the runs (Sunday River and Pleasant Mountain peak days excepted). Because the people are largely good and wholesome and kind. And because it's winter the way we all think winter should be, violently and unapologetically cold, bitter and endless, overcast and ornery, fierce in that way that invigorates and tortures the soul.“OK,” you say. “Saddleback and Sugarloaf look great.” And they are. But to drive four hours past them for something smaller? Unlikely. I'm a certain kind of skier that I know most others are not. I like to ramble and always have. I relish, rather than endure, long drives. Particularly in unknown and distant parts. I thrive on newness and novelty. Bigrock, nearly a thousand feet of vert nine hours north of my apartment by car, presents to me a chance for no liftlines and long, empty runs; uncrowded highways for the last half of the drive; probably heaping diner plates on the way out of town. My mission is to hit every lift-served ski area in America and this is one of them, so it will happen at some point.But what of you, Otherskier? Yes, an NYC-based skier can drive 30 to 45 minutes past Hunter and Belleayre and Windham to try Plattekill for a change-up, but that equation fails for remote Bigrock. Like Pluto, it orbits too far from the sun of New England's cities to merit inclusion among the roster of viable planets. So this appeal, I suppose, ought to be directed at those skiers who live in Presque Isle (population 8,797), Caribou (7,396), and Houlton (6,055). Maybe you live there but don't ski Bigrock, shuttling on weekends to the cabin near Sugarloaf or taking a week each year to the Wasatch. But I'm a big proponent of the local, of five runs after work on a Thursday, of an early-morning Sunday banger to wake up on the weekend. To have such a place in your backyard – even if it isn't Alta-Snowbird (because nothing is) or Stowe or Killington – is a hell of an asset.But even that is likely a small group of people. What Bigrock is for – or should be for – is every kid growing up along US 1 north of I-95. Every single school district along this thoroughfare ought to be running weekly buses to the base of the lifts from December through March, for beginner lessons, for race programs, for freeride teams. There are trad-offs to remoteness, to growing up far from things. Yes, the kids are six or seven hours away from a Patriots game or Fenway. But they have big skiing, good skiing, modern skiing, reliable skiing, right freaking there, and they should all be able to check it out.Podcast notesOn Evergreen Valley ski areaBigrock's longtime, still-standing-but-now-mothballed Mueller summit double lift came from the short-lived Evergreen Valley, which operated from around 1972 to 1982.The mountain stood in the ski-dense Conway region along the Maine-New Hampshire border, encircled by present-day Mt. Abram, Sunday River, Wildcat, Black Mountain NH, Bretton Woods, Cranmore, and Pleasant Mountain. Given that competition, it may seem logical that Evergreen failed, but Sunday River wasn't much larger than this in 1982.On Saddleback's Rangeley doubleSaddleback's 2020 renaissance relied in large part on the installation of a new high-speed quad to replace the ancient Rangeley Mueller double. Here's an awesome video of a snowcat tugging the entire lift down in one movement.On Libra Foundation and Maine Winter SportsBacked with Libra Foundation grants, the Maine Winter Sports Center briefly played an important role in keeping Bigrock, Quoggy Jo, and Black Mountain of Maine ski areas operational. All three managed to survive the organization's abrupt exit from the Alpine ski business in 2013, a story that I covered in previous podcasts with Saddleback executive and onetime Maine Winter Sports head Andy Shepard, and with the leadership of Black Mountain of Maine.On Bigrock's masterplanWe discuss a potential future expansion that would substantially build out Bigrock's beginner terrain. Here's where that new terrain - and an additional lift - could sit in relation to the existing trails (labeled “A01” and A03”):On Maine ski areas on IndyIndy has built a stellar Indy Pass roster, which includes every thousand-ish-footer in the state that's not owned by Boyne: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

It's said that the ancient Arabs used to check their eyesight with the help of stars. They had to look up at the night sky and find the Great Bear. If they could see a small star in the dipper's handle, their eyesight was considered to be good. You can also use this method today. Can you find the hidden items in the following images? TIMESTAMPS: Find the flower amongst the tangerines 0:47 There's a button in the candies 1:06 Can you see a raisin in the coffee beans? 1:27 Find the bean grain that wants to be a pebble 1:50 Find the spring amongst the steel 2:09 A pomegranate seed can resemble a semi-precious stone 2:41 Can you find the lollipop among the Christmas balls? 3:07 Find a blueberry among the grapes... 3:35 ...and a wild strawberry among the raspberries 4:00 Can you manage to find a green grasshopper in the green leaves? 4:27 Bonus: Find a different letter 4:58 Music: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/... Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook:   / brightside   Instagram:   / brightgram   5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://www.goo.gl/8JVmuC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark S. Winfield has led an interesting life so far, with a career as a CPA behind him he is now spending his time through-hiking, writing, and making music. Mark is also a life-long community volunteer. Mark is part of … More ... The post Mark S. Winfield – “The Stones of Great Bear Lake” and The Leopold Trio appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.

Astronomy Daily - The Podcast: 14th September 2024Welcome to Astronomy Daily, your source for the latest space and Astronomy news. I'm your host, Anna, and today we'll be covering a range of exciting topics, from FCC's call for more competition in satellite Internet to the discovery of a mysterious black hole. We've got a packed episode ahead, so let's dive right in.Highlights:- FCC Push for Satellite Internet Competition: Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenwursel is advocating for increased competition in the satellite Internet market, taking aim at SpaceX's Starlink dominance. Starlink, Elon Musk's ambitious project, currently controls nearly two-thirds of all active satellites and has launched an impressive 7000 satellites since 2018. Rosenwursel argues that monopolies do not benefit the economy and emphasizes the need for more space actors and companies to develop innovative constellations. This push for diversity could reshape the landscape, potentially leading to more affordable and innovative services for consumers worldwide.- Discovery of a Low-Mass Black Hole: In a groundbreaking discovery, Chinese researchers have uncovered a low-mass black hole that's breaking all the rules. The team, led by Dr. Zdeněk Sekanina Song Wang from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, used a combination of radial velocity and astrometry methods to identify this elusive object. This black hole, found in the binary system G 3425, has a mass of about 3.6 solar masses and is challenging our understanding of binary evolution and supernova explosions.- Partial Lunar Eclipse of the Super Harvest Moon: Get ready for a celestial spectacle, stargazers—a partial lunar eclipse of the super harvest moon is on its way. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 17, when the moon will put on quite a show. This eclipse will be visible across most of North and South America, Europe, Africa, and parts of western Asia and Antarctica. Don't miss this super harvest moon lunar eclipse, whether you're watching in person or via online live streams.- Challenges Facing NASA: A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has highlighted significant challenges facing NASA. One of the main issues is aging infrastructure, with 83% of NASA's facilities having exceeded their design lifespan. Another major concern is underfunding, which has led to a focus on near-term missions at the expense of long-term investments. The report's authors present a stark choice: either increase NASA's funding significantly or cut some of its missions.- Discovery of a New Giant Planet: Astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń have discovered a new planet in the Great Bear constellation. This giant planet, boasting a mass eleven times that of Jupiter, orbits a star known as HD 118203. Its orbit takes 14 years to complete, and its surface temperature is estimated to be a frigid -100 degrees Celsius or lower. This discovery challenges our understanding of planetary formation and evolution.For more space news, be sure to visit our website at astronomydaily.io. There you can sign up for our free Daily newsletter, catch up on all the latest space and Astronomy news with our constantly updating news feed, and listen to all our previous episodes.Don't forget to follow us on social media. Just search for #AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTubeMusic, and TikTok to stay connected with our community and never miss an update.Thank you for tuning in, and remember to keep your eyes on the skies. Until next time, keep looking up.Sponsor Links:NordVPNNordPassMalwarebytesProton MailBecome a supporter of this Podcast for commercial-free editions: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-podcast--5648921/support

Today Pastor Stan shares some sad news about Chris Reed. Then we move on to Russia. Lavrov has stated the “The West does not want to avoid escalation. Western countries are like small children playing with matches”. Russia has openly said that the world could soon be facing nuclear war is western powers don’t stop the conflict in Ukraine. 00:00 - Stan’s Books 02:49 - Sad News on Chris Reed 04:45 - Watchmen’s Warning 11:26 - Russia’s First Strike 16:40 - Russie Threatening with World War III 19:46 - The Bear Awakes 21:15 - A Great Bear 22:05 - Our Sponsors

Today Pastor Stan shares some sad news about Chris Reed. Then we move on to Russia. Lavrov has stated the “The West does not want to avoid escalation. Western countries are like small children playing with matches”. Russia has openly said that the world could soon be facing nuclear war is western powers don’t stop the conflict in Ukraine. 00:00 - Stan’s Books 02:49 - Sad News on Chris Reed 04:45 - Watchmen’s Warning 11:26 - Russia’s First Strike 16:40 - Russie Threatening with World War III 19:46 - The Bear Awakes 21:15 - A Great Bear 22:05 - Our Sponsors

So, picture this: Justin Timberlake and I tearing it up at Hershey Park on the 4th of July. Yup, you heard that right. We rode the Great Bear non-stop for two and a half hours. Why? Because when JT hands you what you think is Tylenol, it's anything but. We had a blast – headache or not, it was an unforgettable roller coaster marathon. After the rides, we treated JT to the finest dining Hershey has to offer – the one and only Red Robin. We went all out with the onion ring tower, and Justin's bodyguard tackled the new gold Olympic medal burger. Spoiler: It's massive and costs $199.99. But no worries, JT picked up the tab. From there, it was straight to his concert – from the best seats in the house, of course! Just when you thought it couldn't get crazier, we jetted off to Michael Ruben's all-white party. Imagine rubbing elbows with the likes of Kim Kardashian, Drake, and even Bill Gates. Yes, Bill Gates and I had a life-changing chat. My financial future is now set, people. It was a whirlwind 24 hours of rubbing shoulders with the who's who of the celebrity world. Why did all this happen? Because our podcast hit one million views on YouTube! That's right, folks. We've gone viral, and the invitations came pouring in. Justin Timberlake's team, Mr. Beast (or Jimmy, as I call him now), and the entire crew wanted to celebrate with us. We couldn't be more grateful to all of you for getting us here. Now, for the not-so-great news. Remember Charlotte, the pregnant stingray from the North Carolina aquarium? Well, she's no longer with us. Turns out, there was no miraculous pregnancy – just a rare reproductive disease. We dug deep, and it seems the aquarium might have known for a while. Charlotte's been gone longer than we thought, but they kept the story alive for the donations. Sneaky, right? And speaking of sneaky, two Lancaster County buffets made it to the top of USA Today's best buffets list. Shady Maple Smorgasbord and Miller's Smorgasbord – the pride of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. But let's be real, who's voting for these places? We've got 200 feet of food at Shady Maple, but is it really the best? The answer, my friends, lies in the pudding. Literally. In other food news, Perkins is rebranding. Say goodbye to Perkins Restaurant and Bakery and hello to Perkins American Food Co. They're going all out with a new look, new menu items, and a loyalty program. First up: the Decked Out Double Burger. It's a monstrosity, but we'll see if it brings in the crowds. Our mission continues: saving Red Lobster. We're in phase two, folks. With Flavor Flav leading the charge and a little help from our friends at VistaPrint, we're sending out gift cards. Join us in our quest to keep those cheddar bay biscuits flowing. Send a friend a gift card, and I'll reimburse you so you can keep the chain going. Together, we can save Red Lobster, one cheddar bay biscuit at a time. But let's get back to reality for a second. The 4th of July was a chaotic mess. Bumper-to-bumper traffic, blocked streets, and police everywhere. We ended up watching fireworks from a Perkins parking lot – not the ideal spot, but hey, the strawberry pie is back! The modernization of American chain restaurants is here. Perkins, Cracker Barrel, Applebees – they're all getting makeovers. White walls, wooden accents, and new menus. It's a new era, folks, and we're here for it. Finally, don't forget to check out our House of the Dragon recap. Carlos and I break down every scene, Easter egg, and spoiler. It's the number one House of the Dragon recap podcast – prove us wrong! Thank you all for tuning in and helping us hit one million views. Keep liking, subscribing, and sharing. We couldn't do this without you. Until next week, peace out!

In this episode we will reminisce a recent Ontario bear hunt that 4 of our members were able to embark on this past spring. Join, UBM secretary, Ryan Plummer, UBM President, William Brown, John White, and myself (Ethan Grotheer) as we talk day by day experiences bear hunting and some fishing tales. All 4 of us got our bears too! Its a long one (With a few interruptions), but it's a good one!

We've got some ideas for your social calendar this week! From herbs to chili, Eagles soft rock to a literary reading - there's something for everyone.Events discussed in this episode:SpiritWorks Herb Farm Herbal PresentationsDowntown Kalispell Walking Tour: The Iron Horse Snorted in the Garden of EdenNorthwest Montana History Museum EventsThe Music of Eagles - A Tribute ConcertLive Music At The Tiki Featuring Billy Billie Billie Billie's Press Play concertGreat Bear FestivalCrossings Seminar: Road Ecology Shapes the Planet1st Responders Chili Cook Off1st Responders Chili Cook Off | Bigfork - Montana Big thank you to our sponsors, Loren's Auto Repair! They combine skill with integrity resulting in auto service & repair of the highest caliber! Discover them in Ashley Square Mall at 1309 Hwy 2 West in Kalispell Montana, or learn more at lorensautorepair.com.Subscribe to all our pods! Stay in the know with timely updates from News Now, keep up with northwest Montana sports on Keeping Score, dig into stories with Deep Dive, and keep grooving to local artists with Press Play. Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Andrew VanNorstrand performs with his brother Noah VanNorstrand and Chris Miller in the Faux Paws, a contemporary folk band that plays fiddle tunes and original songs with just about the best groove around. The Faux Paws are making an album and you can get involved and find out more here. The time window is closing soon!Andrew grew up playing fiddle and guitar and touring with his family band Great Bear and dominating the contra dance scene, playing every contra dance and festival you can imagine all over the US, and recording albums including “Dancing Again” and “Rawr!”. He is a prolific composer, creator of tunes and songs, his singer-songwriter album is “That We Could Find a Way to Be”. Andrew and I talk about early training in genre dabbling, the depths to which music can be explored, the purpose of dance music, choices in production, perfectionism and exploring a musical choice that wasn't expected, and much more. We touch on why Andrew stopped playing for dances and why a crowdfunding campaign is an opportunity to make a connection and personalize a tiny part of the content wave that flows over us. Andrew describes some new choices the Faux Paws are making with their current album.Find the musical multiverse of Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand's music on Bandcamp.You can hear Noah VanNorstrand's interview for the Fiddle Studio Podcast here.The tune for this week is a tune of Andrew's called Lost River.Email me at meganbeller@fiddlestudio.com.Listen and subscribe on Apple Music, Spotify, or Buzzsprout. Find me on YouTube and Bandcamp. Here are my Fiddle Studio books and my website Fiddle Studio where you can find my courses and mailing list and sign up for my Top 10 Fiddle Tunes!

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on May 20. It dropped for free subscribers on May 27. 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:WhoNathan McGree, Owner and General Manager of Tyrol Basin, WisconsinRecorded onApril 29, 2024About Tyrol BasinClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Nathan McGreeLocated in: Mt. Horeb, WisconsinYear founded: 1958Pass affiliations: Indy Pass and Indy+ Pass – 2 days, no blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Blackhawk Ski Club (:21), Devil's Head (:46), Cascade (1:00), Christmas Mountain Village (1:02)Base elevation: 860 feetSummit elevation: 1,160 feetVertical drop: 300 feetSkiable Acres: 40Average annual snowfall: 41 inchesTrail count: 24 (33% beginner, 25% intermediate, 38% advanced, 4% expert)Lift count: 7 (3 triples, 2 ropetows, 2 carpets – view Lift Blog's inventory of Tyrol Basin's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himWhen you Google “Tyrol,” the expanse of Italian and Austrian Alps from which this Wisconsin bump draws its name, the robots present you with this image:That is not Wisconsin.According to On The Snow, Tyrol Basin recorded two inches of snowfall during the 2021-22 ski season, and 15 inches the following winter. I don't know if these numbers are accurate. No one runs, like, the Southern Wisconsin Snorkel Dawgs Facebook group as a secondary verification source. The site pegs Tyrol's average annual snowfall at 30 inches. That's not even a powder day at Alta. Indy Pass offers a more generous 51. A site called “GottaGoItSnows.com” lists four feet (48 inches), but also offers, as its featured photo of the ski area, this grainy webcam screenshot, which appears to feature two mis-wired AI bots about to zigzag into one another:But it doesn't really matter what Tyrol Basin's average annual snowfall is, or how much snow fell in either of those two winters. The ski area logged a 114-day season during the 2021-22 campaign, and 124 over the winter of 2022-23. That's an outstanding season, above the NSAA-reported industry averages of 110 and 116 days for those respective campaigns. It's a particularly respectable number of ski days when a season pass starts at $199.99, as it did last year (McGree told me he expects that price to drop when 2024-25 passes go on sale in July).No one offers 114 days of skiing on two inches of natural snow by accident. You need what the kids (probably don't) call “mad skillz ya'll.” Especially when you offer a terrain park that looks like this:What's going on here? How can a snow-light bump 28 miles west of Madison where snowsportskiing ought to be impossible offer nearly four months of something approximating winter? That the answer is obvious (snowmaking) doesn't make it any less interesting. After all, put me at the controls of a $106-million Boeing 737, and I'm more likely to crash it into a mountain than to safely return it to the airport – having access to technology and equipment is not the same thing as knowing how to use it (not that I have access to an airplane; God help us). Tyrol Basin is the story of a former diesel mechanic who ended up owning a ski area. And doing a hell of a nice job running it. That's pretty cool, and worth a deeper look.What we talked aboutCoping with a crummy Midwest winter; climate change resilience; a beginner-area expansion; the legend of Dave Usselman; how to create an interesting ski experience; a journey from diesel mechanic to ski area owner; the hardest thing about running a ski area; why ski area owners have to live it; “during winter, it's a hundred-day war”; why owning a ski area is “a lot like farming”; evolving into a year-round business; why mountain biking isn't happening at Tyrol; why season pass prices will decrease for next ski season; how snowtubing roiled a Wisconsin town; how a dairy barn became a ski chalet; expansion potential; the hardest part about building terrain parks; high-speed ropetows; the lost ski area that McGree would like to revive; $2 PBRs; and the Indy PassWhy I thought that now was a good time for this interviewRoughly six years ago, a 33-year-old former diesel-mechanic-turned-haunted-house-purveyor cashed out his retirement account, mortgaged his house, and bought a ski area.“I have no ski-business background whatsoever,” Nathan McGree told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at the time. Perhaps an alarming statement, but he followed that with what may be the pithiest five sentences I've ever read on how to successfully run a small ski area:“In order for this place to function well, it needs an on-the-ground owner who is involved in everything,” he said. “I'm the bookkeeper, I'm helping make snow and I can groom the slopes, too. In the past, the general manager would have had to go to the four owners who fought among themselves and were incredibly stingy when it came to running and investing in this place.“Now, if we need a sump pump or something like that, Andy Amacher, my assistant general manager, and I make a decision and go to Menards or wherever and just get it. The old owners are out of the picture entirely now.”McGree immediately cut new glades and added more night-skiing lights. He cranked the snowmaking dial to 11. Since then, he's built a tubing hill, added more runs, refurbished the chairlifts, and added a new carpet. Sometimes there's even a halfpipe – an enormously expensive and complex feature that even the largest ski areas rarely bother with these days.Constant improvement and commitment to a great product. If there are two things that will keep fickle skiers with plenty of other options (the larger Cascade and Devil's Head ski areas are just a touch farther from Madison than Tyrol), it's those two things. That McGree understood that on Day Zero helped. But it didn't guarantee anything. Running a ski area is hard. Because of the weather and because of the equipment and because of the costs and, especially, as McGree discovered, because of (a small but irritating percentage) of the professional complainers who show up to ski/hate-post on StreamBook. But you can make it easier, in the same way you can make anything easier: by thinking ahead, fixing things before they're broken, and embracing creativity over rigidity - and doing all that with a focus that seems unreasonable to observers.Places like Steamboat and Palisades Tahoe and Jackson Hole and Vail Mountain and Killington are run by something approximating armies: marching soldiers numbering sometimes in the thousands, highly organized and with well-defined roles. But there are hundreds of ski areas across America with no such resources. Highly skilled and capable as they may be, the people running these places summersault through the season with no clear expectation of what the next day will bring. Like Batman, they have to drop in with a loaded utility belt, ready to grapple with any quirk or mishap or crime. Ski areas like Teton Pass, Montana; Great Bear, South Dakota; or Granite Gorge, New Hampshire. And Tyrol Basin, where, six years in, McGree has earned his cape.Questions I wish I'd askedTyrol Basin has a pretty cool four-week kids' program: at the end of the sessions, the ski area gives participants a free season pass. I'd liked to have talked about that program a bit and how many of those kids kept showing up after the lessons wrapped.Why you should ski Tyrol BasinTyrol Basin's trailmap undersells the place, presenting you with what looks to be a standard clear-cut Midwestern bump:In reality, the place is amply treed, with well-defined runs etched into the hill (a feature that McGree and I discuss on the podcast):Trees help, always. I am not a huge fan of bowl skiing. Such open spaces make big mountains feel small. That's why I asked Big Sky GM Troy Nedved whether the resort would continue to keep a six-pack running up Powder Seeker (after moving the tram), when it only served two marked runs, and he was like “Bro there's like more skiable acreage in that bowl than there is in Wisconsin” and I was like “oh.” But trees make small mountains feel big, cutting them up like chapters in a book. Even better when the trees between have been gladed, as many of Tyrol's have. With such an arrangement, it can take all day to ski every run. This circa 2015 trailmap, in my opinion, better displays the ski area's depth and variety (even though there are now more runs):It's a fun little ski area, is my point here. More fun than maybe it looks glancing at the stats and trailmap. And if you don't care about trees (or there's no snow in the trees), the park scene is lights-out (and lighted at night). And the ski area is on the Indy Pass, meaning that, if you're reading this newsletter, there's a better-than-average chance that you already own a pair of lift tickets there.I realize that the majority of readers who are not from the Midwest or who don't live in the Midwest have no interest in ever skiing there, and even less interest in what skiing there is. But there's a reason I insist on recording a half-dozen or so pods per year with operators from the region, and it's not simply because I grew up in Michigan (though that's part of it). Skiing the Midwest is a singularly uplifting experience. This is not a place where only rich people ski, or where crowds only materialize on powder days, or where mountains compete in the $10-million chairlift arms race. Skiing at Tyrol Basin or Caberfae Peaks or Giants Ridge is pure, illicit-drugs-grade fun. Here, skiing is for everyone. It's done regardless of conditions or forecast, and with little mind to the 60-year-old chairlifts with no safety bars (though Tyrol's three triples are modern, and all have bars; the majority of lifts throughout the Midwest are of an older vintage). Skiing is just Something To Do In The Winter, when there is so little else other than tending to your Pet Rectangle or shopping or day-drinking or complaining about the cold. It's a joyous scene, and I wish everyone could see it at least once.Podcast NotesOn Afton Alps and Welch VillageMcGree skied Afton Alps and Welch Village as a kid. Both offer large, sprawling footprints on tiny vertical drops (350 and 360 feet, respectively), that are incredibly fun to ski.On CascadeI mention Cascade, which is Tyrol's larger competitor and roughly equidistant (in another direction), from Madison. The mountain hits 450 vertical feet in comparison to Tyrol's 300, and 176 acres to Tyrol's 40. As with all ski area stats that I cite, these stats are either lifted from the ski area's website (Cascade), or taken from a reliable secondary source (in this case, the Indy Pass website for Tyrol). I hosted Cascade GM Matt Vohs on the podcast last year. Like Tyrol, it's a pretty cool operation:On tubing dramaJust as a reminder that NIMBY-ism isn't confined to the Mountain West, we discuss the zealous opposition to Tyrol's tubing operation. Per Channel 3000 in 2018:Some community members don't agree with a plan to install lighting on the tubing hill and are pushing against official approval of a conditional use permit.A Dane County panel postponed its decision after listening to at least five residents speak out against the lighting. Marc Brody, of the Town of Vermont, was one of them. He told the panel that McGree was unclear about what the plans are and said the proposed lighting would cause significant light pollution.Tyrol eventually built the tubing hill, which, if it didn't save the business, at least reinforced it. When I last checked, the town was still standing.On “Matt Zebransky's video about high-speeds versus fixed-grips”McGree mentions Matt Zebransky, who runs midwestskiers.com. Specifically, he references this enlightening video, which illustrates the counterintuitive but irrefutable fact that fixed-grip quads move exactly the same number of skiers per hour as detachable quads (typically 2,400 at full capacity):And here's Zebransky's 2019 interview with McGree:On that chaletThis circa-late 1800s converted dairy barn is one of the cooler chalets (Midwest code for “baselodge”), anywhere in America:On Skyline Basin, Wisconsin McGree's ambition is to purchase and rehabilitate the lost Skyline Basin ski area, which sits around 90 minutes north of Tyrol. A 1974 Ski magazine article listed a 335-foot vertical drop, with a double and a triple chair (McGree intimates that only the triple is standing, and is likely unusable). Here's a circa 1999 trailmap, which is delightful:Don't confuse this with the lost Skyline ski area in Michigan. That's in Grayling, only an hour north of where I grew up. It has great intermediate pitch and an improvisational, eclectic trail and lift network, but no snowmaking. This just doesn't work in Michigan anymore (unless you're Mount Bohemia). The green line is a chairlift, and all the red lines are ropetows:Skimap.org says this trailmap dates to 2011, but the place really only ran intermittently since the 1990s, when I last skied there. I took these photos of the ragged-but-intact operation in July 2022. Last I checked (with the current owner), the place is still for sale. It sits directly off an expressway and would be a fun project for someone with $20 million to blow: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 36/100 in 2024, and number 536 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

EPISODE 87 THE GREAT BEAR IN THE WOODS DEBATE by Pirate Radio 92.7FM Greenville

And the Lord Answered Job from the Whirlwind.  While the Almighty speaks over the next four chapters, He provides a response to the themes Job has been lamenting over.   It is grand poetry that express the majesty of the ineffable. The Lord queries, Who is this who, in words without wisdom, darkens counsel?  He could be addressing Job or all who have appeared in this Book, including: Job, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar.  The Almighty continues, Gird up Thy Lions like a man and ready yourself for My Word, so you can inform me. Where were you when I founded the Earth?  The Lord has existed for an infinite period, while we are fortunate if we near the century mark.   Each of us is like a grain of sand in the Cosmic order.  Since we have an infinitesimal fraction of His perspective, Job is not fit to question God nor to claim to be as righteous as Him.  Tell me, if you have understanding,  Who fixed the World's measures.  The Lord is asking, who, like an Architect and Engineer, designed and constructed this World, with the proper angles and adjustments.  At the Dawn of Creation, who moved the Angelic Beings in the Heavens to rejoice and sing together?  This references a celebration of celestial beings.    Who hedged the sea with doors and  releases waters as if they break forth from a womb?  Have you been able to explore the majesty of the seas and the depths? When there is a torrent of rain; who devises how it runs off?  It is folly to think there is no Master behind this. The Lord continues and expresses: Have you brought Light to the void, ushering in the Spring of Day, to shake out the filters of wicked darkness?  Have you an understanding of the gates of death?  What do you really know about the mysteries of this earth, those which are all around you?   And when a discovery is made, does it not open door to new unknowns? You surely have answers to all this; for weren't you around when I brought forth this World through the Introduction of my Word. Since you were around, please offer advice. The number of Your days is great – just as mine are. The Almighty continues: Have you controlled the storehouses of power – of rains, snow and hail,  which I keep in reserve for times of strife?   Do you send the Lightening Bolts on Their Way? So tell me, how does one send the wind where it goes?  How does that East Wind scatter and whip all over the Earth?   Declare it if you Know— How is it that you may embrace the Light; and take it with you; to avoid the darkness.  God is stressing that He created the rhythm of light and darkness.  And who decides that in uninhabitable areas, like jungles and desserts, that it rains to feed the earth? And from whose Womb does Ice Come Forth? Then the Lord points to Outer Space – Can you show us each of the Constellations in their proper season. Could you have tied together the Band of Pleiades.  Or create Orion the Hunter. Could you lead, bring forth, create, the Great Bear & Her Cubs (Arcturus)? And Who hath put wisdom in the mind, or understanding to the Heart. Who made it so the Lion hunts for it's prey?  I set who is the leader of the food chain?  Who made it so the predators lie in wait for their prey?  And who provides a means for the Raven to get his Food?  This is likely a source of Jesus's lesson in Matthew 6:26 of the Lord providing for all, emphasizing that man is given what he needs by God's care.

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The Great Bear Rainforest on BC's coast is a spectacular place. Rugged mountains and old growth forests stretch all the way to Alaska. It was here that nearly a decade ago a group of coastal First Nations decided to halt most of the logging in their territories. And in the areas where they did log, they would do it differently. But ten years on the plan hasn't gone quite as expected… And it's left the First Nations with a difficult question: can they sustain sustainable logging?

This magical, slightly scary Inuit tale tells a story of kindness and betrayal. Three Hunters and their dogs pursue Nanuq, The Great White Bear across the snowy land. Listen to Nick Hennessey tell this beautifully crafted ‘How and Why' sound story to see where the bear and hunters end up in this great chase across land and space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's a Big Bear in the sky!   To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization.  If there's no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode. Join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/triumvirclio to get early access to ad-free episodes and bonus content.    References Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by Sir James George Frazer. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Available online at https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022.    The Myths of Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Accessed November 23, 2023. Available at https://www.aavso.org/myths-uma --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bethany-banner/support

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Oct. 2. It dropped for free subscribers on Oct. 9. 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:WhoDan Grider, General Manager of Great Bear, South DakotaRecorded onSeptember 25, 2023About Great Bear Ski ValleyOwned by: The City of Sioux FallsLocated in: Sioux Falls, South DakotaYear founded: 1966Pass affiliations: NoneReciprocal partners:* 3 days at Seven Oaks* 2 days at Mont du Lac* 1 day each at Buck Hill, Powder Ridge MN, Snowstar* Discounts at several other local ski areasClosest neighboring ski areas: Mt. Crescent (2:37), Mount Kato (2:16)Base elevation: 1,352 feetSummit elevation: 1,534 feetVertical drop: 182 feetSkiable Acres: 20Average annual snowfall: 49 inchesTrail count: 15 (7 most difficult, 5 more difficult, 3 easiest)Lift count: 3 (1 fixed-grip quad, 1 ropetow, 1 carpet – view Lift Blog's inventory of Great Bear's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himFrequent Storm readers have probably started to notice the pattern: every fourth or fifth podcast swerves off Megapass Boulevard and takes four state highways, a gravel path, a Little Caesars pit-stop, and ends in the Wal-Mart-sized parking lot of a Midwest ski area. Which often sits next to a Wal-Mart. Or a car dealership. Or, in the case of Great Bear, between a construction supply depot and the Sioux Falls chapter of the Izaak Walton League, a conservation society.Why do I do this? My last three podcasts featured the leaders of Killington, Keystone, and Snowbird. The next one to drop into your inbox will be Northstar, a Vail Resorts staple that is the ninth-largest ski area in America. If you're reading this newsletter, there is a high probability that you either already have skied all four of those, or plan to at some future point. Most of you will probably never ski Great Bear or anywhere else in South Dakota. Many of you will never ski the Midwest at all.Which I understand. But there are several reasons I've worked Midwest ski areas into the podcast rotation, and why I will continue to do so for as long as The Storm exists:* The episodes with the leaders of Caberfae, Boyne Mountain, The Highlands, and Nub's Nob are for 18-year-old me. Or whatever version of 18-year-old me currently sits restlessly in the ski-mad but ignored flatlands between Ohio and the Dakotas. I devoured every ski magazine on the drugstore shelves of the 1990s, but if I could scrub 500 words of Midwest content from their combined catalogue each winter, I was lucky. I was dying – dying – for someone, anyone, to say something, anything, about the Midwest or Midwest skiing. Even a list of the top 10 ski areas in Michigan, with 50 words on each, would have made my year. But the ski mags, great as they were in those days, barely covered the rich and varied ski culture of New England, let alone the Midwest. I would have lost my goddamn mind had someone published a 90-minute conversation with the owner of the mysterious (to me at the time) Caberfae, with its hills upon hills of abandoned lifts and ever-changing footprint. * The Midwest is home to one of the world's great ski cultures. If you don't believe me, go ski there. The region hosts 122 ski areas across 10 states, most of them in Michigan (43), Wisconsin (33), and Minnesota (21). But the volume matters less than the attitude: Midwest skiers are absolutely unpretentious. They'll ski in hunting gear and Carhartts. They'll ski on 25-year-old sticks they found at a yard sale for five dollars. They'll ski when it's 25 below zero. They'll ski at night, in the rain, on a 200-vertical-foot bump running 60-year-old chairlifts. These are skiers, Man. They do it because it's fun, because it's right there, and because this is one of the few regions where skiing is still accessible to the masses. If you want to understand why every third Colorado liftie you meet is from Grand Rapids or Madison or Duluth, go ski Canonsburg or Cascade or Spirit Mountain. It will make sense in about five seconds.* Because the Midwest has so many owner-operators, and because it takes a certain sort of swaggering competence to run something as temperamental and wild as a 300-vertical-foot, city-adjacent ski area with 17 chairlifts all built before the Reagan Administration, these tend to be very good interviews. The top five most-downloaded Storm Skiing Podcasts of 2023 are Alterra CEO Jared Smith, Holiday Valley President Dennis Eshbaugh, Pacific Group Resorts CMO Christian Knapp, Indy Pass President Doug Fish, and Whitecap Mountains owner David Dziuban. Those first four are fairly predictable (Holiday Valley is a bit of an outlier, as the resort heavily shared the conversation), but the last one is remarkable. Both because only five people have actually skied at Whitecap, and because the 33 podcasts that I've pushed out this year include many prominent and popular megapass headliners with well-known and highly respected leaders. Why did the Whitecap podcast land so hard? I can't say for certain, but I suspect because it is completely raw, completely authentic, and absolutely unconcerned with what anyone will think or how they will react to it. Dziuban, an industry veteran on a mission to salvage a dying business from the scrapyard, has no boss, nothing to lose, and no one to impress. It's an incredible conversation (listen for yourself). And while Dziuban is a special character, bolstered by a fearless Chicago moxie and the accent to match, every single guest I have on from the Midwest brings some version of that no-b******t attitude. It's fun.* I'm from there. I grew up in Michigan. Many of my best friends still live there. I return frequently, hold Michigan football season tickets, camp in the UP every April, still rock the Old English “D” ballcap. I moved to the East Coast in 2002, but the longer I'm gone, the more I admire the region's matter-of-fact work ethic, the down-to-earth worldview, the way Midwesterners simplify the complicated (next time you ride a chairlift with a Michigander at Keystone or Breckenridge, ask them how they got to Colorado – there's a better than 50 percent chance that they drove). Midwest skiing is the reason I love skiing, and I will always be grateful for these hills, no matter how small they are. Plus, I gotta represent.So, there you go. Skip this ep if you want. But you shouldn't, because it's very good.What we talked aboutGreat Bear's record-shattering 2022-23 ski season for skier visits; how the ski area has been able to recruit and retain staff in a difficult labor market; staying open into April; the importance of Christmas Week; memorializing Roxie Johnson; Great Bear in the 1970s; the quirks of running a city-owned ski area; the appeal of working at a small ski area for decades; what it means to a flatland city to have a ski area; the best age to make skiers; “if you can sit, you can tube”; “The nice thing about our profitability is that there's no owner here, so our money just stays in the bank”; contemplating a new chalet; the location, size, and timeline for Great Bear's potential expansion; the glacial phenomenon that left Great Bear in its wake; reflecting on the Covid season; what it means for a small municipal Midwestern ski area to put in a brand-new chairlift; why the outgoing Borvig quad had to go, even though it was “a tank”; the brilliance and cost-effectiveness of high-speed ropetows; scarves and ropetows don't mix; the story behind the “Children's Dental Center Beginner Area”; the power of tubing; Keeping season pass and lift ticket prices low; the story behind the season passholders-only timeslot on Sunday; holding strong on wicket tickets; free buddy tickets for passholders; Flurry the mascot; and the Indy Pass.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewLike many small ski areas, Great Bear publishes a periodic newsletter to complement its social media presence. I subscribe to as many of these email digests as I am aware of, as they often contain nuggets that larger resorts would celebrate with a big campaign and press release. Great Bear's April newsletter hooked me with this:We are excited to finally start sharing with you our plans for future expansion! Efforts to expand have been in the works since 2013. Our top priority is adding another 7-acres of skiable downhill terrain with a second chairlift. Additionally, we are working on plans to significantly expand the lodge.As a city park, our next step is presenting a detailed plan to the Parks Board next month. We appreciate all your enthusiasm for a bigger and better Great Bear. Projects of this size take an enormous amount of work and collaboration. We are so grateful for our partnership with the City of Sioux Falls and all the community support!An expansion project at a municipal ski area marooned in a state with a population of fewer than 900,000 people is a big deal. It means the place is well-run and well-cared-for, and most likely a community staple worthy of some national attention. The fact that Great Bear was served not by a collection of ropetows and a 60-year-old Hall double, but by a carpet and a brand-new Skytrac quad, complemented with a high-speed Park Brah ropetow, were further evidence of a highly capable management team.Intrigued, I reached out. It took a minute, but we set up the podcast with Grider, who's been running the bump since 1992. He's a great storyteller with an upbeat disposition and a good mind for business, and he convincingly lays out a long-term future for Great Bear that will ensure the mountain's status as a skier assembly line for many generations to come. If you love skiing, you'll enjoy this one.Questions I wish I'd askedI'd meant to ask about this “I Ski 182 Vert Campaign,” which profiles locals who have put Great Bear at the center of their recreational lives:Why you should ski Great BearThere are different ways to think about yourself as a skier. One is as a sort of progressionist. Like a student working their way through school, you graduate from one grade to the next. Always forward, never back. So a Jersey kid may learn at Campgaw as a 6-year-old, join after-school ski bus trips to Mountain Creek in junior high, take weekend trips to Mount Snow in high school, and spend college spring breaks at Palisades Tahoe. But by the time he moves to the Upper East Side and has two kids of his own, he only skis on his annual trips to Deer Valley. He sits on his laptop in the lodge as the kids run beginner-chair laps at Thunder Ridge. He's not going to bother with this little stuff – he's graduated.But this is a strange way to think about skiing. We don't apply such logic to other facets of our lives. Consider food – sometimes you have the inch-thick porterhouse on a special-occasion outing, sometimes you have Taco Bell, and sometimes you eat Pop-Tarts on your drive to work. But I don't know anyone who, once they've dined at Peter Luger, never deigns to eat a hotdog again. Sometimes you just need to fuel up.I approach skiing in the same way. A dozen or so days per season, I'm eating steak: Snowbird or Big Sky or Vail or Heavenly. But since I'm not content to ski 12 days per winter, I also eat a lot of pasta. Let's call that New England and the Catskills on their best days, or just about anyplace with fresh snow. And I snack a lot, skiing's equivalent of a bag of Doritos: a half-open Poconos bump, a couple hours on a Sunday morning at Mountain Creek, a Michigan T-bar when I'm visiting family for Christmas. My 6-year-old son is in a seasonal program at 250-vertical-foot Mt. Peter in New York. The vast majority of the parents sit in the lodge on their phones while the kids ski. But I ski, lapping the Ol' Pete double chair, which accesses the whole mountain and rarely has a line. When his lesson is over, we often ski together. It's fun.Everyone funnels the joys of skiing through different lenses. The lift or the freefall, the high-altitude drama, the après electricity of crowded places and alcohol. For me, the draw is a combination of dynamic movement and novelty, an exploration of new places, or familiar places under the changing conditions wrought by weather and crowds. Even though Mt. Peter is familiar, it's a little different place every week.Which takes us to Great Bear, a 182-foot bump that is, most likely, nowhere near you. I'm not suggesting you cancel your Tahoe reservations and book yourself into the Sioux Falls Best Western. But there are two groups of skiers who ought to consider this place: locals, and cross-country road-trippers.If you live in Sioux Falls and are over the age of 16, you probably consider yourself a progressionist. Maybe you learned to ski at Great Bear, but now it's too small for you to bother with. You'll ski your five days per year at Copper Mountain and be content with it. But why? You have a ski area right there. The season pass is $265. Why ski five days per year when you can ski 25? With that Great Bear season pass, you can ski every Saturday morning and two nights a week after work. Consider it your gym. The runs are short, but the sensation of dynamic movement is still there. It's skiing. And while it's (typically) a materially a worse form of skiing than your high-altitude Colorado version of the sport, it's also in many ways better, with less attitude, less pretense, less entitlement, less ego. Just kids having fun. It's fulfilling in a different way.The second group is those of us who live east of America's best versions of skiing. Most East Coast skiers will fly west, but the most adventurous will drive. You see them on Facebook, posting elaborate three- or six-week Google maps dotted all over the west. But why wait until you arrive in Colorado or Wyoming or Montana to start skiing? There are ski areas all along your route. Great Bear sits two miles from Interstate 90, the 3,021-mile-long route that runs from Boston to Seattle. So why not scoot through Kissing Bridge, Buffalo Ski Center, and Peek'N Peak, New York; Alpine Valley, Boston Mills, and Brandywine in Ohio; Swiss Valley, Michigan; Four Lakes and Villa Olivia, Illinois; and Cascade, Devil's Head, and LaCrosse, Wisconsin en route? Yes, you want to hurry west. But the drive will take several days no matter what. Why not mix in a little novelty along the way?My first trip west was over Christmas break in the mid-90s, a 22-hour bender from Michigan to Summit County, Colorado with my buddy Andy. We'd booked a Super 8 or some similar thing in Lincoln, Nebraska, at our approximate halfway point. We rode into Nebraska sometime after dark, but early enough for a night session at Nebraski, a run-down hundred-footer between Omaha and Lincoln. The chairlift coughed up the bump like a cartoon contraption and skiers yard-saled all over the hill and it was just about the most amazing scene you could imagine. Four days later a two-footer hammered Copper, dropping an exclamation-point powder day onto our first Rocky Mountain adventure. Nearly three decades later, when we reminisce on that trip, we talk about that Copper pow day, but long-gone Nebraski (I don't think the place made it out of the ‘90s alive), is an equal part of the legend.A Great Bear stop would be a little different, of course. This is a modern ski area, with a 2021 Skytrac quad and modern snowmaking and solid financial backing. It will make you feel good about skiing and about its future. It may even be a highlight of your trip.Podcast NotesOn the remoteness of Great BearIt is impossible to overstate how important Great Bear is to curating skiers among the 300,000-ish residents of greater Sioux Falls. There are two other ski areas in South Dakota – Terry Peak and resurgent, probably semi-private Deer Mountain – but they sit nearly six hours west, in the Black Hills. Mt. Crescent, Iowa, sits two-and-a-half hours down I-29. Mt. Kato, Minnesota is two hours east. And that's about it. If you're a teenager in Sioux Falls without Great Bear, you may as well be a teenager in Fort Lauderdale. You're probably never going to ski.That wasn't always true. A 175-vertical-foot (at most) bump with the amazing name of Hole In The Mountain once operated with up to three ropetows near Lake Benton, an hour north, according to the Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project. But that's been gone for decades.  On Great Bear's potential expansionGreat Bear is in the process of a sizeable expansion, which could add a second chairlift and several more trails. Great Bear provided this preliminary map, which shows a new lift sitting adjacent to the learning area and a new entrance road and chalet:On the outcome of the Sept. 25 masterplan meetingGrider referenced a meeting he had coming up “later this week,” which means last week, since we recorded this on Sept. 25. I followed up on Sunday to see if the meeting had thrown any landmines in the way of Great Bear's potential expansion. It had not. The reception from local officials had been optimistic and enthusiastic, Grider said.“What we've got to do here in the next six weeks is they're going to formalize the plans and we'll get some drawings, we'll get a rendering,” Grider told me. “Then we go in front of the park board and we just keep our foot on the gas pedal.”On the stem in the middle of Great Bear's old Borvig chairGreat Bear's spanking-new Skytrac replaced a gorgeous but problematic Borvig centerpole quad. Luckily, Lift Blog documented the old lift before the ski area demolished it.On high-speed ropetows and Hyland HillsI remain obsessed with high-speed ropetows as the ultimate solution to terrain park-driven congestion. They're fast, they're cheap, and they tamp down liftlines by drawing Parkbrahs away from the workhorse chairlifts. Here's one I documented at Spirit Mountain, Minnesota last season:And here's one at Hyland Hills, which Grider mentions:On me not knowing who Mary Hart isAt one point in the podcast, Dan Grider asked me if I knew who Mary Hart was. I said I did not, which was true. It turns out that she is quite famous. She was Miss South Dakota 1970 and hosted a show called Entertainment Tonight for 29 years. I have never watched that show, nor was I aware of its existence until I looked up Ms. Hart on Wikipedia.This probably sounds dubious to you. But there is something wrong with my brain. I simply do not process information having to do with pop culture or celebrities. I say this not out of proud ignorance, but as a matter of observable fact. I have always been this way. Hit me with a well-known movie quote, and I will stare at you as though you just spoke to me in Elvish.An anecdote to illustrate the larger void in which I exist: my wife and I began watching a show called Suits the other day. She asked me if I recognized the young woman who plays a paralegal on this show. I said no. She asked if I knew who Meghan Markle was. I said no. She asked if I knew who Prince [can't remember the name] was. I said no. Because apparently they're married. And that matters somehow. Though I'm not exactly sure why. Though I am curious why we still have princes in this world, because I thought we got rid of them when we exiled the dragons back in like 1502 or whenever.We all have gaps, right? Or shortcomings. One of mine, and there are many, is aggressive indifference to things that I find boring. It's probably how some of you feel when I write about skiing in Ohio. Like, Man, get me to the next thing.On charging the same for kids as adultsMost ski areas kick you a discount for a kids' lift ticket. And why not? Expenses add up for a family, and when you start multiplying everything by three or four, you get to a scary price range pretty quickly. So some of you may have been surprised when Grider mentions, during our interview, that Great Bear doesn't offer discounted lift tickets for kids.There's a simple reason for that. A discounted kids ticket doesn't do much for you when most of your clientele is children. Great Bear is one of our skier factories, where busloads of kids prime themselves for roadtrips to Colorado 10 years from now. So the parents don't need the incentive – they're just signing the waiver to get the kid on the ski bus.Plenty of ski areas follow a similar model. Mount Peter, where my 6-year-old participates in a seasonal program, is currently selling adult season passes for $499, and kids' passes for $479. Nearby Campgaw posts similar rates: $389 for adults, $359 for kids. But it makes sense to minimize the discount: both are 300-ish-foot bumps that are dwarfed by nearby Mountain Creek, a thousand-footer with a killer terrain park and high-speed lifts (and, incidentally, a less-expensive season pass). They can't compete from a terrain point of view, but they can offer something that Creek can't: an unintimidating atmosphere to learn in. And the skiers who mostly need such a thing is kids. And if Mt. Peter and Campgaw discount kids too much, their whole model falls apart.In the case of Great Bear, well, the season pass is currently $265. This winter's lift ticket price will be $38. So, really, who cares?On Flurry the MascotIf your ski area doesn't have a mascot, it should: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 81/100 in 2023, and number 467 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

It's spooky season, friends! Every October we aim to provide spooky, monstery stories for your frightful delight. This time, your humble host forgot it was the launch of the spooks (you'd think the gentle aroma of leaves and pumpkin spice on the air would tip him off, but c'est la vie) and chose a decidedly unspooky prompt. The Cru then did their best to create suspenseful tales for you, and discussed various techniques that can help create that atmosphere and tone in writing. Stories begin at the 19:30 mark and include a tale from the dark of space; making amends, with repercussions; and a new sort of AI. From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Dipper, The. An old name for the seven principal stars of the constellation URSA MAJOR, the Great Bear, also known as the Plough or CHARLES'S WAIN. The name is derived from the supposed resemblance to the kitchen utensil of this name, a pan with a long handle.  Check out our website for a featured story from this week's episode, and be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.

Great Bear Recreation Park offers more than 220 acres of unlimited year-round fun and excitement just minutes away from downtown Sioux Falls, SD. As the largest park in the Sioux Falls Parks & Recreation Department, Great Bear features winter sports activities for the whole family. The park is home to 14 downhill trails, a terrain park, the Kirby Family Tubing Park, and cross-country and snowshoeing trails that provide fun and excitement for all skill levels. During the summer months, Great Bear provides the perfect setting for hiking, jogging, bird watching, or enjoying a picnic on their 4-mile trail system. Their location also provides the perfect setting for outdoor weddings, corporate retreats, family reunions, and other private parties. Stop out today and experience one of South Dakota's top natural attractions. Dan was first bitten by the ski bug in the mid-'70s at his local ski area, Great Bear! During the '80s, Dan was involved in his family's food businesses and in 1992, was awarded the food concession contract at Great Bear. His involvement in the Great Bear operation evolved into the position of General Manager, and he has been part of all of the area's expansions since 1992. What he likes most about Great Bear: “I love the feeling of giving something back to the sport that has given me so much.” Hosted By: Johnny Noel Producer: Charley Illg

Bearable Bible Passages (Learning about Bears in the Bible...?) - Grounded Ep. 23 Where did Steve come up with the idea for this episode? It probably won't make sense to you until part way, but give it a chance! We hope that today's episode will both be intriguing and also challenging to your understanding of the Bible, God, and yes, bears. Begin Show Notes: Bears in the Bible Why? B/c just read through 2 Kings, and in chapter 2 - story about Elisah, a roaming mob of insulting young men, and two mauling bears. And it's that biblical account that I really want to get to, but there are some other very interesting accounts in the Bible about bears, so we're going to start in some other places first. Actually, start - 2 Bear stories. One personal, and one in the news. *Personal… Kids, tent… *Another (many). Great smokies, female black bear (up to 300 lbs, 5'7” - the male 900) was grabbing food off picnic tables (Yogi and BooBoo), raiding trash cans, and even stealing backpacks. Relocate. Tranquilized, enclosed truck, relocated 1k miles, 4 states away. Georgia. Attached a geolocating device. What happened? That bear started walking. across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina and then into Tennessee— returned to the campsite where it had been trapped. Never slowed down, just kept going (Forrest Gump bear; energizer bunny bear - keeps on walking). That female bear walked 1k miles, 4 states. How? Hidden GPS? Rand McNally atlas? (remember?). How? Had never been. Didn't see. Couldn't smell. Was drugged and inside an enclosed truck. How? And the ans is - we have no clue. Proposals - maybe able to follow Celestial or magnetic cues. (How?). Nobody knows! With all our science, physics - we just don't know. ***Bible - we are fearfully… and here we might note that even the the bears, animals of the world are fearfully and wonderfully made. (all kinds of animal migration that defies explanation). Glorifying the God who conceived and created it all. So two bear stories. Debbie's & mine, and the female energizer bear. But what about bears in the bible? Are there any? Yes indeed. *14X. However, most are not the animal, but the action. 1.Action? Yes, sometimes the word Bear - Bear one another Burdens. You will bear much fruit. That's the action. Not the animal. Bearing much fruit has nothing to do with bears. Job - (Job 9:9, 38:32) - not the animal. What? The constellation known in astronomy as (The Great Bear). The heavens declare. And God even put a great, big bear up there… But what about the animal in Bible? Are there any bears - the animal - in the bible? Yes. Bears in the life of David. (1 Samuel 17:34-35) David wants to fight goliath. You can't, you're a boy. But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear (not boo-boo) came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Whoah! Supernatural. Imagine grabbing a lion, a bear by the fur and killing? Bears fast. Powerful. A man can't. How? Supernatural. (God does things through me that are humanly impossible. I can kill the giant). (David at sight and sound - giant). More (1 Samuel 17:36) Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. Lions - reminded of “lions and tigers and bears, oh no.” - Dorothy. *Supernatural. David - “I am supernat empowered to kill unkillable things.” More - Ans how come can do that. (1 Samuel 17:37) The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.” The Lord. David knew it wasn't him. God. David trusted God… Gave glory to God. Bears in the life of David. And there's still another use of the word Bear in the Life of David. But this one likens David to a bear. (2 Samuel 17:8) Absalom (3rd son of King David) “You know your father (David) and his men; they are fighters, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops. -So here David is likened to a bear. David is bear like. That is, David is a fierce fighter, a fierce warrior - like a wild bear.. -I just want to say - I'm really liking David. Interesting man. *Musician (temp - N). So david was.. *And yet fierce as bear. David is a manly man. David is not soft. David's not quintessential “nice guy. Just nice. Just affirm everybody. Musician/warrior. (And D, I will remind you, David prefigures, pre-pictures JC). So bears in the life of King David. But are there more bears in the Bible, Bears that are not connected with the life of Kind David? Yes. quite a few more. Wisdom lit. Exs: 3.(Proverbs 17:12) “Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.” 4.(Proverbs 28:15) Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people. Selah. So there's more… But that's enough. But now I want to come to that Bear - two bears - in the Bible that I mentioned earlier And that's going to bring us into the life and times of the OT prophet Elijah. Start w/ Elisha: Man of God. Prophet. Was supernaturally, mirac taken up - 2 Kings 2 - 1Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind. So… Did he? Yes. 2 K 2 - 11And as they (e and e) still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire (runner - Eric Liddell) and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. So pic that. This is what they saw, and this is what God did…. And Elijah Did not pass go. Did not collect $200. Went up. (Die first? Die later?). *OK, so Elijah went up. Where are the bears? 23He (Elisha) went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some youths came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” 24And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore (Niv - Mauled, NKJV - Mauled, NASB - Tore up) forty-two of the boys. 25From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria. Two things problematic for some people. 1 - he cursed them in the name of God. Cursed them, for a little mocking, taunting? Over the top? 2 - she-bears - tore 42. Of course, we are to understand, didn't just happen. No co-incidence. Providentially sent by God. Over the top. God of the OT? Andy S right - unhitched from the OT? *Bethel - the center for Apostacy). Wicked and idolat in Israel. *Boys. 42 killed, but 42 of them. So more. How many? Don't know. 50? Boys out roaming in a pack. Not well governed at home. What kind of parents allow? Yeah, you're getting the picture. These guys are out roaming around in a mob, looking for something to do, looking for trouble. *Baldy. Was bald? Mocking God's prophet. Mocking the man of God. *Go up - Mocking Elijah. They had heard about… Equiv = Mocking Jesus' ascension. *Mocking Prophet = Mock God. *Just that the God of Isr sent… (if not get that - too tinged with modern sensibilities of “nice.” Modern notions of God - supremely Nice. And you are forgetting that it is a fearful thing to fall… *So two bears in life of Elisha. Any more bears? One final. (Isaiah 11:7 - new heaven and earth) The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together (picture), and the lion will eat straw like the ox. (herbivorous) *Some - metaphor - reconciliation b/t enemies now, in this NC age. *Others - New heavens and new earth. Wherever you place it – it's to the Glory of God. So bears in the Bible. And before we go, one more reference to bears - modern culture, children's songs: If you go down to the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise If you go down to the woods today, You'd better go in disguise. For every bear that ever there was, Will gather there for certain, Because today's the day, The Teddy Bears have their picnic. "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" is a song consisting of a melody written in 1907 by American composer John Walter Bratton, and lyrics added in 1932 by Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy. Reflects our fascination with - Bears. B/c amazing creatures, created by a vastly more amazing creator God. End Show Notes: We hope that today's episode of Grounded has been encouraging and helpful with your Christian walk! Please consider sharing it with a friend, and if you have time, consider dropping us a review. Thanks, Steve and the Grounded Team

Spring Bear Series Part #2. On the second installment of the Focus Hunting Podcast spring bear series Kevin & Pete welcome new guest, Simon Friesen. Simon, aka, Backcountry Bloodline is a self taught bowhunter and successful bear hunter. Simon shares his introduction into hunting and bowhunting and talks about when his fixation with bears started. He gives us some excellent tips and recipes for cooking bear meat and confesses his methods which have proven successful. He also talks about mimicking bears and shares some unique calling techniques. For more on Simon follow him on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/backcountrybloodline/ As always be sure to check out our sponsors and use the promo codes... https://akuoutdoor.ca/ Use Promocode FOCUS for 15% off Hunting & Military Boots https://akuoutdoor.us/ Use Promocode FOCUS for 15% off Hunting & Military Boots https://www.treelineacademy.net/ use promocode "FOCUS22" and get $20USD off the course Elk101.com | Dedicated to Elk Hunting Information use the promocode "focus" and receive 20% off the online course This episode of the Focus Hunting Podcast is brought to you by: Hard Core Archery Howl For Wildlife Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interview with Claudia Tornquist, President & CEO of Kodiak Copper (TSX-V:KDK)Kodiak Copper Corp. (TSX.V:KDK, OTCQB:KDKCF) is focused on its 100% owned copper porphyry projects in Canada and the USA. Kodiak Copper is backed by John Robins' Discovery Group, founded by Chairman Chris Taylor (President and CEO of Great Bear Resources), and led by Claudia Tornquist (former GM at Rio Tinto and former VP Business Development at Sandstorm Gold). The team has shown the ability to raise capital while protecting a tight share structure, and attracting strategic investors such as Teck Resources. The strategy behind Kodiak's portfolio is to apply Great Bear's successful approach to the copper space – unlock the value of historically drilled, underexplored assets in prime locations using new interpretation and technology. 

B2Gold is to pay C$1.1 billion to buy junior gold explorer Sabina Gold & Silver in an all-stock deal to obtain the Back River project in Nunavut, Canada, at 45% premium. Kinross Gold announced a maiden 5Moz gold resource estimate for its Great Bear project in the Red Lake district of Ontario, Canada. Freeport-McMoRan said its Grasberg operations in Indonesia were disrupted by significant rainfall and landslides with the company aiming to resume operations by the end of February. Nevada King Gold announced assay results from its Atlanta Gold Mine Project in the Battle Mountain Trend of Nevada. Metal Energy announced assay results from four on the nickel and copper-cobalt Manibridge project in the Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba.

Have you ever seen a grin without a cat? Come and see, or at least listen to the story about a fascinating object in the deepest recesses of Ursa Major, the Great Bear!  Alice in Wonderland, Charlie Chaplain, Albert Einstein, invisible space-time fabric, and a grin that is kinda out of this world.  For more grinning from the heavens, see Wayne's article! The Grin from Space https://creationanswers.net/answersblog/2023/01/27/the-grin-from-space/   Podbean enables our podcast to be on Apple Podcasts and other major podcast platforms.  To support Good Heavens! on Podbean as a patron, you can use the Podbean app, or go to https://patron.podbean.com/goodheavens.  This goes to Wayne Spencer. If you would like to give to the ministry of Watchman Fellowship or to Daniel Ray, you can donate at https://www.watchman.org/daniel. Donations to Watchman are tax deductible.

Kodiak Copper Corp. (TSX.V:KDK, OTCQB:KDKCF) is focused on its 100% owned copper porphyry projects in Canada and the USA. Kodiak Copper is backed by John Robins' Discovery Group, founded by Chairman Chris Taylor (President and CEO of Great Bear Resources), and led by Claudia Tornquist (former GM at Rio Tinto and former VP Business Development at Sandstorm Gold). The team has shown the ability to raise capital while protecting a tight share structure, and attracting strategic investors such as Teck Resources. The strategy behind Kodiak's portfolio is to apply Great Bear's successful approach to the copper space – unlock the value of historically drilled, underexplored assets in prime locations using new interpretation and technology. 

Join Morgan Ray and John Fraley as they get into some of the wildlife details in My Wilderness Life. Morgan and John talk about the oldest, purest, and largest westslope cutthroat in the U.S., which are found in the upper South Fork of the Flathead River deep in the Bob. They talk about bull trout spawning over the last 50 years in the Great Bear. Morgan serves as the host as she interviews John about these stories found in his new book.

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Nathaniel the Boar Knight meets a bard named Winnie and learns more about a possible cure. Credits: Written by K. A. Statz Produced with Sound Design, Editing, and Directed by Travis Vengroff Edited, with Sound Design, and Mixing by Dayn Leonardson Executive Producers Dennis Greenhill, AJ Punk'n, Carol Vengroff, & Maico Villegas Song Lyrics by K.A. Statz & Travis Vengroff Script Editing by W. K. Statz Original Story by Travis Vengroff & Peter Pepper Cast: Narrator – Sam Yeow Nathaniel the Boar Knight – Paul Mella Winthrop ‘Winnie' the Bard – David Devereux Asper – Siobhan Lumsden Murrk – Sean Daniel Francis "Here Comes the Boar Knight" – Written by Steven Melin, Orchestrated & Performed by Mike Pettry, Vocals by Julie Seechuk "Ballad of the Bear King" - Written by Ryan Mcquinn, Vocals by David Devereux, with additional vocals by Ryan McQuinn & Travis Vengroff, Accordion by Travis Vengroff, Fiddle, Flute, Cello, & Trombone by Studio Pros "A Journey Begins" - Written and Performed (guitar) by Brandon Strader, Arranged and co-written (accordion) by Travis Vengroff "Unicorn Awesomeness - Outro Theme" - Written & Performed by Steven Melin Cover Art by James Cartwright & K. A. Statz This is a Fool and Scholar Production We are a two person creative team and we can only create this show because of your support. Please consider joining our Patreon team for early releases, bonus songs, and other goodies: http://Patreon.com/foolandscholar Free Transcripts are also available: https://www.patreon.com/posts/73732905 We also have Merch: https://streamlabs.com/foolandscholar/merch Special Thanks to: Our Patreon supporters! | David Cummings | Carol Vengroff | Kat Sanzo

Kodiak Copper Corp. (TSX.V:KDK, OTCQB:KDKCF) is focused on its 100% owned copper porphyry projects in Canada and the USA. Kodiak Copper is backed by John Robins' Discovery Group, founded by Chairman Chris Taylor (President and CEO of Great Bear Resources), and led by Claudia Tornquist (former GM at Rio Tinto and former VP Business Development at Sandstorm Gold). The team has shown the ability to raise capital while protecting a tight share structure, and attracting strategic investors such as Teck Resources. The strategy behind Kodiak's portfolio is to apply Great Bear's successful approach to the copper space – unlock the value of historically drilled, underexplored assets in prime locations using new interpretation and technology. 

Bob goes solon on this week's podcast, telling the story of his recent trip to the Great Bear Rain Forest with National Geographic Expeditions.  While on the trip, he and his shipmates saw many great sights, not the least of which was the rare white Kermode bear.  Find out all about the experience on this episode. Link to Nat Geo video about this specific trip:  https://bit.ly/3SoMbdp National Geographic Expeditions: https://www.expeditions.com/ Please consider becoming a patron of this podcast! Visit: https://www.patreon.com/hikingbob for more information Hiking Bob website: https://www.HikingBob.com Wild Westendorf website: https://www.Wildwestendorf.com Where to listen, download and subscribe to this podcast: https://pod.link/outdoorswithhikingbob

Rob Green is a conservation journalist and photographer from Montana, and in a recent contribution to Modern Huntsman volume 9, he wrote extensively about the current conflict with grizzly bears in the United States. From near extinction to the recovery of the species in an increasingly humanised landscape, the management of grizzly bears is one of the most contentious issues of the day. Read more in Modern Huntsman volume 9: The Hands That Feed, available now. Support the show on Patreon.com/byronpace www.byronpace.com

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Ingeborg Bachmann, (born June 25, 1926, Klagenfurt, Austria—died Oct. 17, 1973, Rome, Italy), was an Austrian author whose somber, surreal writings often deal with women in failed love relationships, the nature of art and humanity, and the inadequacy of language. Bachmann grew up in Kärnten during World War II and was educated at the Universities of Graz, Innsbruck, and Vienna. She received a doctoral degree in philosophy from Vienna in 1950. Bachmann's literary career began in earnest in 1952, when she read her poetry to members of the avant-garde Gruppe 47. She produced two volumes of verse, Die gestundete Zeit (1953; “Borrowed Time”), about the sense of urgency produced by the passage of time, and Anrufung des grossen Bären (1956; “Invocation of the Great Bear”), featuring poems of fantasy and mythology. Of her several radio plays, the best known is Der gute Gott von Manhattan (1958; “The Good God of Manhattan” in Three Radio Plays). First broadcast on May 29, 1958, it is about a couple attacked by a covert group that seeks to destroy all traces of love.Following Bachmann's five landmark lectures on literature at the University of Frankfurt in 1959–60, she shifted her focus from poetry to fiction. During this period she also wrote the libretti for Hans Werner Henze's operas Der Prinz von Homberg (1960; from a play by Heinrich von Kleist) and Der junge Lord(1965; from a fable by Wilhelm Hauff). Among her prose writings are Das dreissigtse Jahr(1961; The Thirtieth Year) and the lyrical novel Malina (1971; Eng. trans. Malina). She also published essays, stories, and more radio plays. Her death by fire may have been a suicide.Much attention was given to Bachmann's work both in her lifetime and after her death, and several of her writings were translated into English. A volume of selected poems, In the Storm of Roses, was published in 1986; it was the inspiration for Elizabeth Vercoe's composition In the Storm: Four Songs on Texts by Ingeborg Bachmann for medium voice, clarinet, and piano. Some of Bachmann's stories were translated in Three Paths to the Lake (1989), and a bilingual edition of her collected poems, translated and introduced by Peter Filkins, was published as Songs in Flight(1995). Fragments of two novels intended to complete the trilogy begun with Malina were translated and published together in a single volume entitled The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann (1999).From https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ingeborg-Bachmann. For more information about Ingeborg Bachmann:“Every Day”: https://www.guernicamag.com/ingeborg_bachmann_7_1_11/“Ingeborg Bachmann”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ingeborg-bachmann“Feminize Your Canon: Ingeborg Bachmann”: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/09/feminize-your-canon-ingeborg-bachmann/

It is Thursday July 14, 2022 and after offering The Astrology on Overturning Roe Vs. Wade: Part 1, we now present The Launch of GPS Astrology Magazine & How The Great Bear Began. This new podcast focuses attention on how Great Bear Enterprises began following my working at Lucis Trust in NYC and being a member of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, and the launch of our new Astrological/Metaphysical journal at the Leo-Aquarius Full Moon on August 11. GPS Astrology is an online magazine dedicated to providing a Rainbow Bridge pathway between the astro-zodiacal and metaphysical fields of study on Earth with the supernal triangle of The Great Bear, the Pleiades and the star Sirius considered to be the Father, Mother and Christ Child of many streams of the Ageless Wisdom teachings. Overall, this is the 99th podcast offered to the public since May 2019.Support the show

We have a new acquisition in the royalty space this morning with Royal Gold set to acquire Great Bear Royalties. There are new drill results out from ValOre Metals and Blackrock Silver. Arizona Sonoran extends its partnership with Rio Tinto. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Integra Resources is advancing the past-producing DeLamar Project in southwestern Idaho. The Company has continued to demonstrate resource growth and conversion through greenfield and brownfield exploration. Integra Resources trades on the TSX-V under ITR and the NYSE American under ITRG. Western Copper and Gold is focused on developing the world-class Casino project in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Casino project consists of an impressive 11 billion pounds of copper and 21 million ounces of gold in an overall resource. Western Copper and Gold trades on the TSX and the NYSE American with WRN. Be sure to follow the company via their website,www.westerncopperandgold.com. Rio-2 is advancing the Fenix Gold Project in Chile, the largest undeveloped gold heap leach project in the Americas. Fenix consists of 5 million ounces in the measured and indicated resource category and 1.4 million ounces in the inferred resource category. With a robust PFS in place, Fenix is set up for fast-tracked construction and production. You can find a list of project and company information on their website, rio2.com. ASCU is a Copper Mining Company with a 100% ownership of The Cactus Mine, located on private land in the Arizona Copper Belt. The Company is committed to supplying LME Grade A Copper Cathodes usable in the Renewable Energy Future, mined in a responsible and sustainable manner. Our goal, beyond our ESG Strategy, is to ensure “Net Zero Carbon Emission” from future operations, minimizing the effect of climate change on the earth and preserving our planet for our children and future generations. https://arizonasonoran.com/

Kodiak Copper Corp. (TSX.V:KDK, OTCQB:KDKCF) is focused on its 100% owned copper porphyry projects in Canada and the USA. Kodiak Copper is backed by John Robins' Discovery Group, founded by Chairman Chris Taylor (President and CEO of Great Bear Resources), and led by Claudia Tornquist (former GM at Rio Tinto and former VP Business Development at Sandstorm Gold). The team has shown the ability to raise capital while protecting a tight share structure, and attracting strategic investors such as Teck Resources. The strategy behind Kodiak's portfolio is to apply Great Bear's successful approach to the copper space – unlock the value of historically drilled, underexplored assets in prime locations using new interpretation and technology. The Company's most advanced asset is the MPD copper-gold porphyry project in the prolific Quesnel Trough in southern British Columbia, Canada, where the Company made a discovery of high-grade mineralization in 2020 at the Gate Zone. A fully funded 2021 drill program of up to 25,000m is currently ongoing. Results to date have successfully extended the Gate Zone discovery to a strike length of 950m. More drill results will become available throughout the winter. A large drill program is planned for 2022 and in addition to the Gate Zone, the Company will also test several other porphyry centres with similar discovery potential and value impact as Gate. 

In this episode we do a hard pivot out of Orlando and up north to Hershey, PA to discuss our ideal day in Hersheypark. Paige loves the Great Bear anytime of year and Stephen is just going to avoid eating at Moe's at all costs. It's a real thing. Just look at this ungodly milkshake. https://dn2rwdp3nbiny.cloudfront.net/assets/images/explore-the-park/dining/chocolatier/slideshow3.jpg

Slide deck: https://bit.ly/3wLrXkI   - This Special Edition podcast features Peter Garnry, Saxo's head of Quant and Equity Strategy who offers his perspective on the status of the current US equity market drawdown and what makes it unlike any other market drawdown, relative to the current economic backdrop, since at least the 1980's and even the early 1970's. That's because we have nearly reached classic bear market status (a -20% drop from the top) even with a US economy that has yet to roll over and a Fed that is still bent on tightening policy further. We also look at why this drawdown is likely to achieve "top"-five status among bear markets of the last century as inflation is likely to continue even on any softening growth, preventing the kind of QE and rate cut response that has driven the levering up and serial asset price bubbles since the mid-late 1990's. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, May 25, with John J. Hardy hosting. Intro and outro music by AShamaluevMusic

This week Stick and Hack are on-air with Vince Yanovitch, a man who started his lifelong love for golf with a hitchhiker's journey that ultimately led him to Great Bear Golf Club in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Stick & Hack On-Air brings you an amazing mix of golf content from a daily golf story, weekly reactions to the PGA/LPGA tournaments and news, as well as amazing guests from sports psychologist's to golf superstars. Go to StickandHack.com/stick-and-hack-on-air to catch up on over 100 shows and interviews. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom welcomes geologist and Chairman of Kodiak Copper, Chris Taylor to the show. Chris discusses his family background in minerals and how that lead him to become interested in geology. Chris explains the differences between structural geology and exploration. Structural geology tries to unravel how rock layers formed while exploration is more of a search for new deposits. The two fields have a natural relationship. Chris describes the history of Great Bear and his twelve years of developing the project. He became CEO and did a lot of restructuring. Then they found the Dixie project and the rest is history. They purchased the project in 2015 for $200k and we're able to develop it into a 1.8 billion dollar asset. 3D modeling of the data was key to understanding the site and they were able to determine that it had excellent potential. Keeping the company afloat was difficult but buying when the market was quite weak helped. Those shareholders that invested early saw huge returns. First, they were looking for a project in the right location where a mine could be practical. Second, they wanted the correct types of geology and a site with significant historical data. They had enough data to realize that the site had been misunderstood geologically. One key thing they did was utilize oriented drill cores which helped in targeting the resource. Projects with too much drill activity can be risky because it may indicate poor management and capital allocation. For explorers, transparency is vital when it comes to drilling results. Great Bear's open approach differed from many other companies. He discusses the importance of analyzing drill results and some of the potential red flags in the industry. Look for companies with detailed cross-sections where you can understand the grades and complexities of a site. Chris discusses how the discovery of the 'hinge zone' brought a lot of investor interest but also skepticism. When they reached around a hundred drill holes the interest levels became very high. He describes how the royalty mechanism helped to unlock the potential of the project in the eyes of financiers. It's important to have a team that you can easily work with who are self-motivated, independent-minded, professional, and competent. The incentives are important for success. Lastly, Chris discusses his history with Kodiak Copper and where that project may be heading. He enjoys the exploration business because you can make value out of almost nothing. Time Stamp References:0:00 - Introduction2:38 - Efficiency & Regulations3:24 - Geology & Exploration4:57 - Mentors6:17 - Great Bear & Lessons10:25 - Timing12:08 - Dixie Lake Features15:12 - Size, Grade & Depth16:48 - Drill Targets20:15 - Understanding Results23:23 - Major Investor Interest24:50 - Project Offers25:37 - Royalty Creation30:03 - Herding Cats & Dogs32:03 - Shared Vision33:10 - Kodiak Copper Plans34:57 - Advice for Geologists36:06 - Wrap Up Talking Points From This Episode Chris's background in minerals, mining, and geology.What is required to find and build a successful explorer.Things to look for when evaluating junior resource companies.Importance of management and the need for dedicated employees. Guest Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/KodiakCopperCoWebsite: https://kodiakcoppercorp.com Chris Taylor is a structural and economic geologist and mining entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience with both producers and exploration companies. He was President and Director of Great Bear Resources Ltd from December 2010. He is currently Chairman of TSX.V listed Kodiak Copper Corp. and formerly a geologist with Imperial Metals, Inc., a TSXV company from 2004 to 2009. Mr. Taylor graduated with a Bachelor of Science honors degree in Earth Sciences in 2000, and a Master of Science degree in Structural Geology from Carleton University in 2003.

See the From the Mic website for transcripts and more. Or click here to download it directly.And the Country Dance and Song Society for information about Contra and English country dance across the continent.Soundbites featured in this episode (in order of appearance):Sarah calling ​​"Dennis' 50 Years of Entrancement" written by Seth Tepfer to the music of Riptide (Glen Loper, Owen Marshall, Alden Robinson) at the Epicenter dance weekend in Mill Valley, CASarah calling “Celebrating 60” written by Linda Leslie to the music of the combined Notorious (Larry Unger, Eden MacAdam-Somer, Sam Bartlett, and Mark Hellenberg) and Seaglass (Rachel Bell and Eileen Nicholson) Band at the Echo Summit dance weekend in Sacramento, CASarah calling "Vallimont's Steamboat" written by Chris Weiler to the music of the HotPoint Stringband at the June Moon dance weekend in Morgantown, West Virginia.Other LinksCheck out Sarah's personal websiteSarah's home dance where she got her start dancing and calling is run by the Syracuse Country DancersSarah is a longtime collaborator with Great Bear

Dr. Yuri Maltsev visits for the first time. Quinton Hennigh and John Rubino return. Ron Paul once said in a GOP presidential debate that “if we are free, we will be prosperous.” Yuri understands that as well as anyone having worked as an economist on behalf President Gorbachev's perestroika reform package. In 1989 Yuri defected from the Soviet Union not only because he knew the Soviet economic system was doomed but for a much greater reason - freedom & liberty. Yuri witnessed firsthand how power-hungry politicians use propaganda to deceive people in order to grab power and deprive people of their natural human rights. He is not fooled by similar deceiving propaganda being used now in the U.S. and Western countries in general. As the natural rights and freedoms we, as Americans, have taken for granted are rapidly being stripped away, what will that mean not only for our personal wealth, but more importantly to our rights, to live free and develop our personal talents and religious beliefs as our Founding Fathers willed for us? Those and more topics will be explored with Yuri. Meantime, we don't want to retreat into a bunker only to miss opportunities to live life to the fullest including recognizing investment opportunities staring us in the face. Eskay Mining, for example, is apparently on to a great new gold and silver discovery in B.C. Quinton will update us on that company's exploration progress. And John will be with me to chat about that investment as well as several others that have the potential to become the next Great Bear success story, a company that gave my subscribers the opportunity to realize a 4,731% gain.

It's the most wonderful time of the year.  No seriously, it's time for the 125 Roller Coaster Ranking for 2021 and today's ERT is kicking it off with a discussion of the coaster styles we have already discussed in our second season. So far we have talked about the floorless, inverted, classic wooden coasters, launched, looping and hyper coasters we have ridden but for this episode, we are going to rank each one of these coasters as they compare to each other for 2021.  Add in the fact that Janine who wasn't available for most of the coaster style ERT's will be able to give her fun opinions so this is a great way to get everyone ready for our Ouch 2021 episode coming next week. Which is the better invert, Montu, Banshee, Afterburn, Great Bear, Talon....? Which has a better launch, Storm Runner or Verbolten? Which hyper is king between Goliath at SFOG, Mako, Nitro, or Diamondback? Is Phoenix still the best classic wooden coaster?  How does it compare to other wooden coasters? So many questions will be answered and these ERT episodes are also fun with Paul & Janine not always agreeing on the rankings. Let's Get Social Instagram / Facebook - 125rollercoaster Twitter - 125rollercoast YouTube - 125 Roller Coaster Challenge We can't wait to see you in the queue in 2022.

The Story Ship brings you to the forest for the tale of an incredible battle. Warning! This story is not for little little ones. Grade school is fine but toddlers and younger should move on to another episode graded for that age. The Story is called, "The Golden Tears of Great Bear." It is an original story from my "Critter Tales CD" This is really a story within a story. One part of the story is actually true.  The true part is about my nephew eating Spanish moss from the trees in my back yard. The rest of the story is a fictional recount of a great battle between man and beast. We invite you to find out about our storytelling workshops for your school or organization at our website. We also have wonderful new podcast training workshops teaching you everything you need to know about story creation, script writing and how to start a podcast. Visit https://www.thestoryship.com/story-telling-podcast-workshops to find out more. Also, visit our website to find out about our amazing school assembly shows available for live in person and virtual programs. Thanks for listening. Captain Sean  

If you're listening to this podcast, my bet is that you, like me, are a reader. You love a good book, and if you're lucky, you've loved them all your life because someone introduced the power of stories to you. My parents read to me when I was young, but the real gateway drug for me was my dad making up stories. As a reader, I followed the conventional path. I started with kids' books and moved on to what would be called ‘YA' now, then diving into Literature in high school, and eventually moving on to attain both a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Literature at university. For someone who is happily child-free, I read a lot of Young Adult literature. In part, it's because my wife trained as a YA librarian, so she's always finding great books, but also just because they're great books! It takes a certain gift to write a book that's brilliant for children and young adults, and grown-ups, like me. The very best of these books are wise, timeless, and fearless.  David A. Robertson is one of those people who can write for young people. I mean, he can really write for young people. He's won numerous awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award, McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award, and the Indigenous Writer of the Year Award at the High Plains Book Awards. Acknowledging these accolades is easy, but the same can't be said for pinning down his genre. So far, he's published over 25 books across multiple genres and has no plans of stopping anytime soon. Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/  David reads two pages from ‘Tom's Midnight Garden' by Philippa Pearce. [reading begins at 8:45] Hear us discuss:  David's watershed moment. [13:56] | “I thought, ‘This needs to be out into the world. If no one's gonna do it, I'll do it.' Then I wrote it.” [19:19] | A writer's relationship with time: “I realised that creating change in the work that I have will take a long time.”  [20:30] | The change David wants his work to bring about in the world.  [24:51] | The importance of having a strong support system on difficult journeys. [26:54] | Figuring out what to read next. [29:34]

It's official fall season. Though we have a modern scientific explanation for why leaves change color, let's dive into this Iroquois legend about fall/autumn, Chasing the Great Bear. Apart from giving the red color to the leaves this story also tells the story behind Ursa Major constellation (The Big Dipper). This Native American story brings us a little closer to the wonders of the natural world. The constellation is visible year-round because the hunters are eternally chasing the bear. The next time you're admiring the fall foliage or gazing at the stars, you can think back to this Native American story about fall and remember that the bear and the hunters are keeping you company in the sky. In the current world, individuals can help bears by supporting wildlife conservation and habitat protections like the Endangered Species Act.