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This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Nov. 23. It dropped for free subscribers on Nov. 30. 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:What is this?Every autumn, ski associations and most of the large pass coalitions host media events in New York City. They do this because a) NYC is the media capital of the world; b) the city is a lot of fun; and, c) sometimes mountain folks like something different too, just like us city folks (meaning me), like to get to the mountains as much as possible. But I spend all winter traveling the country in search of ski areas of all sizes and varieties. This is the one time of year skiing comes to me. And it's pretty cool.One of the associations that consistently hosts an NYC event is Ski Utah. This year, they set up at the Arlo Soho, a chic Manhattan hotel. Longtime President Nathan Rafferty asked if I would be interested in setting up an interview station, talking to resort reps, and stringing them together into a podcast. It was a terrific idea, so here you go.Who* Nathan Rafferty, President of Ski Utah* Sara Huey, Senior Manager of Communications at Park City Mountain Resort* Sarah Sherman, Communications Manager at Snowbird* Nick Como, VP of Marketing at Sundance* Rosie O'Grady, President and Innkeeper of Alta Lodge* Jessica Turner, PR Manager for Go Heber Valley* Taylor Hartman, Director of Marketing and Communications at Visit Ogden* Brooks Rowe, Brand Manager at Snowbasin* Riley Elliott, Communications Specialist at Deer Valley* Andria Huskinson, Communications and PR Manager at Solitude* Anna Loughridge, PR Manager for Visit Utah* Courtney Ryan, Communications Manager for Visit Park City* Ryan Mack, VP of Communications for Visit Salt LakeRecorded onOctober 3, 2024About Ski UtahMost large ski states have a statewide trade group that represents its ski areas' interests. One of the best of these is Ski Utah, which is armed with a large staff, a generous budget, and some pretty good freaking skiing to promote (Buckskin, Utah Olympic Park, and Wasatch Peaks Ranch are not members of Ski Utah):What we talked aboutSKI UTAHTopicsWhy NYC; the Olympics return to Utah; why the state is such a great place to host the games (besides, you know, the awesome skiing); where we could potentially see future ski area development in Utah; Pow Mow's shift toward public-private hybrid; Deer Valley's expansion and ongoing snowboard ban; and the proposed LCC Gondola – “Little Cottonwood Canyon is not a great place for rubber-wheeled vehicles.”On Utah skier visits and population growth over timeOn chairlifts planned in Utah over the next three yearsUtah is on a chairlift-building binge, with the majority slated for Deer Valley's massive expansion (11) and Powder Mountain (4 this year; 1 in 2025). But Snowbird (Wilbere quad), Park City (Sunrise Gondola), and Snowbasin (Becker high-speed quad) are also scheduled to install new machines this year or next. The private Wasatch Peaks Ranch will also add two lifts (a gondola and a high-speed quad) this year. And Sundance is likely to install what resort officials refer to as the “Flathead lift” some time within the next two years. The best place to track scheduled lift installations is Lift Blog's new lifts databases for 2024, 2025, and 2026.On expansion potential at Brian Head and Nordic ValleyUtah's two largest expansion opportunities are at Brian Head and Nordic Valley, both operated by Mountain Capital Partners. Here's Brian Head today:The masterplan could blow out the borders - the existing ski area is in the lower-right-hand corner:And here's Nordic Valley:And the masterplan, which could supersize the ski area to 3,000-ish acres. The small green blob represents part of the existing ski area, though this plan predates the six-pack installation in 2020:PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORTStats: 3,226 vertical feet | 7,300 skiable acres | 355 inches average annual snowfallTopicsSnowmaking upgrades; the forthcoming Sunrise Gondola on the Canyons side; why this gondola didn't face the opposition that Park City's last lift upgrades did; Olympic buzz in Park City; and which events PCMR could host in the 2034 Olympics.On the Great Lift Shutdown of 2022Long story short: Vail tried to upgrade two lifts in Park City a couple of years ago. Locals got mad. The lifts went to Whistler. Here's the longer version:More Park City Mountain ResortSNOWBIRDStats: 3,240 vertical feet | 2,500 skiable acres | 500 inches average annual snowfallTopicsThe new Wilbere lift; why Snowbird shifted the chairlift line; the upside of abandoning the old liftline; riding on top of the new tram; and more LCC gondola talk.On the new Wilbere lift alignmentHere's where the new Wilbere lift sits (right) in comparison to the old lift (left):On inter-lodgeIf you happen to be at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon when avalanche danger spikes, you may be subject to something called “inter-lodge.” Which means you stay in whatever building you're in, with no option to leave. It's scary and thrilling all at once.Inter-lodge can last anywhere from under an hour to several days.On the LCC gondola and phase-in planAnother long story short: UDOT wants to build a gondola up Little Cottonwood Canyon. A lot of people would prefer to spend four hours driving seven miles to the ski areas. Here's a summary of UDOT's chosen configuration:As multiple lawsuits seeking to shut the project down work through the courts, UDOT has outlined a phased traffic-mitigation approach:More SnowbirdSUNDANCE Stats: 2,150 vertical feet | 450 skiable acres | 300 inches average annual snowfallTopicsThe importance of NYC to the wider skiing world; how the Wildwood terrain helped evolve Sundance; Epkon refugees headed south; parking improvements; options for the coming Flathead terrain expansion; and potential lift switcheroos. More SundanceSundance's new owners have been rapidly modernizing this once-dusty ski area, replacing most of the lifts, expanding terrain, and adding parking. I talked through the grand arc of these changes with the mountain's GM, Chad Linebaugh, a couple of years ago:ALTA LODGEAlta stats: 3,240 vertical feet | 2,500 skiable acres | 500 inches average annual snowfallTopics65 years of Levitt family ownership; Alta's five lodges; inter-lodge; how Alta has kept its old-school spirit even as it's modernized; and an upcoming women's ski event. On Alta's lift evolutionIt wasn't so long ago that Alta was known for its pokey lift fleet. As recently as the late ‘90s, the mountain was a chutes-and-ladders powder playground:Bit by bit, Alta consolidated and updated its antique lift fleet, beginning with the Sugarloaf high-speed quad in 2001. The two-stage Collins high-speed quad arrived three years later, replacing the legacy Collins double and Germania triple lines. The Supreme high-speed quad similarly displaced the old Supreme triple and Cecret double in 2017, and the Sunnyside sixer replaced the Albion double and Sunnyside high-speed triple in 2022. As of 2024, the only clunker left, aside from the short hotel lifts and the long transfer tow, is the Wildcat double.GO HEBER VALLEYTopicsWhy Heber Valley makes sense as a place to crash on a ski trip; walkable sections of Heber; ease of access to Deer Valley; and elevation.VISIT OGDENConsidering “untamed and untouched” Ogden as ski town; “it's like skiing in 2005”; Pow Mow, Snowbasin; accessing the mountains from Ogden; Pow Mow's partial privatization; art on the mountain; and Nordic Valley as locals' bump.  On Powder Mountain size claimsPow Mow has long claimed 8,000-ish acres of terrain, which would make it the largest ski area in the United States. I typically only count lift-served skiable acreage, however, bringing the mountain down to a more average-for-the-Wasatch 3,000-ish acres. A new lift in Wolf Canyon next year will add another 900 lift-served acres (shaded with stripes on the right-hand side below).On Nordic Valley's fire and the broken Apollo liftLast December, Nordic Valley's Apollo chairlift, a 1970 Hall double, fell over dead, isolating the mountain's glorious expansion from the base area. The next month, a fire chewed up the baselodge, a historic haybarn left over from the property's ranching days. Owner MCP renovated the chairlift over the summer, but Nordic will operate out of “temporary structures,” GM Pascal Begin told KSL.com in June, until they can build a new baselodge, which could be 2026 or '27.SNOWBASINStats: 3,015 vertical feet | 3,000 skiable acres | 300 inches average annual snowfallTopicsBreaking down the coming Becker lift upgrade; why Becker before Porcupine; last year's DeMoisy six-pack installation; where is everyone?; where to ski at Snowbasin; the 2034 Olympics plan; when will on-mountain lodging arrive?; and RFID.More SnowbasinDEER VALLEYStats: 3,040 vertical feet | 2,342 skiable acres | 300 inches average annual snowfallTopicsMassive expansion; avoiding Park City; and snowmaking in the Wasatch Back.On Expanded ExcellenceDeer Valley's expansion plans are insane. Here's a summary:More Deer ValleySOLITUDEStats: 2,030 vertical feet | 1,200 skiable acres | 500 inches average annual snowfallTopicsAlterra; Big versus Little Cottonwood Canyons; and Alta.More SolitudeVISIT UTAHTopicsWatching the state's population explode; the Olympics; comparing 2002 to 2034; RIP three percent beer; potential infrastructure upgrades to prepare for the Olympics; and SLC airport upgrades.VISIT PARK CITYTopicsPark City 101; Main Street; the National Ability Center; mining history everywhere; Deer Valley's trail names; Silver to Slopes at Park City; Deer Valley's East Village; public transit evolution; Park City Mountain Resort lift drama; paid parking; and why “you don't need a car” in Park City.On Silver to SlopesThe twice-daily guided ski tour of on-mountain mining relics that we discuss on the podcast is free. Details here.On Park City and Deer Valley's shared borderPark City Mountain Resort and Deer Valley share a border, but you are forbidden to cross it, on penalty of death.* Alta and Snowbird share a crossable border, as do Solitude and Brighton. All four have different operators. I'm not sure why PCMR and Deer Valley can't figure this one out.*This is not true.^^Though actually it might be true.VISIT SALT LAKETopicsThe easiest ski access in the world; why stay in SLC during a ski trip; walkable downtown; free transit; accessing the ski areas without a car; Olympic buzz; and Olympic events outside of the ski areas.What I got wrong* I said that former mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to bring the Olympics to NYC “around 2005 or 2006.” The city's bid was for the 2012 Summer Olympics (ultimately held in London). I also said that local opposition shut down the bid, but I confused that with the proposed stadium on what is now Manhattan's Hudson Yards development.* I said you had to drive through Park City to access Deer Valley, but the ski area has long maintained a small parking lot at the base of the Jordanelle Gondola off of US 40.The robots aren't readyEveryone keeps telling me that the robots will eat our souls, but every time I try to use them, they botch something that no human would ever miss. In this case, I tried using my editing program's AI to chop out the dead space and “ums,” and proceeded to lose bits of the conversation that in some cases confuse the narrative. So it sounds a little choppy in places. You can blame the robots. Or me for not re-doing the edit once I figured out what was happening.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 78/100 in 2024, and number 578 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. 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

Snyderville Basin Cemetery District board member Pete Gillwald has details on the tax increase and location for new cemetery, Chamber's new Mountainkind card an effort to keep funds local, Park City Community Foundation Climate Fund Manager Andy Hecht, Jaime Rincon from Slopeside Village, and Deirdra Walsh from PCMR announce a big partnership and update on the Zero Food Waste movement, Park City moving forward with new transportation programs and Summit County Transportation Planner Carl Miller and Active Transportation Planner Senta Beyer take a look back at the success of the e-bike share program.

Tym razem z wizytą wpada Bartek „Drozdu” Drozdowski, dzięki czemu mamy okazję wysłuchać prześmiesznej opowieści o wrażeniach z drugiej części filmy „Rebel Moon”. Omawiamy gry - „Pacific Drive”, „Between Horizons”. W sekcji popkulturalnej oprócz wspaniałego filmu Bartka, dużo poelcajek komiksowych i kilka seriali. Po za tym klasycznie garść newsów i komentarzy. Tematem główny odcinka jest kolejny legendarny aktor  - Rutger Hauer. Omawiamy jego biografię, oraz nasze ulubione filmy. PS. Pacific Drive posiada pełną polskà kinową wersję językową.Spis treści:00:00 Intro00:25 Rozbiegówka 10:31 Pacific Drive19:51 Between Horizons25:36  Ploteczki i niusy51:15 Rebel Moon: Scargiver01:01:10 Seriale i komiksy01:11:13 Dreamcast Extreme01:14:10 Rutger HauerMuzyka Intro i Outro: Amoebacrew - Retrowave, Ivan 2020Okładki: Artur Alchemik Linki:Strona: https://www.starygracz.plYT https://youtube.com@starygraczpodcastFB: https://www.fb.com/starygraczpodcastIG: https://www.instagram.com/stary.gracze-mail: kontakt@starygracz.plKawa: https://buycoffee.to/starygraczTipy: https://tipply.pl/u/starygraczPatronite: https://patronite.pl/starygraczpodcast

We have a slow news week here in the world of gaming, bring back mergers eh? That being said there are still talking points out there, and Dony welcomes Wandering Dutch from The World of Gaming Podcast, and PDG's very own Couchy from that green Podcast...The boys discuss Sea of Thieves early red hot pre-orders, the cancelled Spider-Man MMO and naturally the hot topic is the leaked details of the PS5 Pro. Dony gets an education from the PCMR about CPU, DLSS, AMD, B&Q, ABC and FTQ as they discuss the details about the Pro model and the impact it will have.00:00 Intro03:40 Couchy excited for Forbidden West on PC07:15 Are we picking up any new games this week?15:50 What we've been playing27:40 Sea of Thieves pre-orders aren't sinking36:15 Summer Games Fest date announced43:50 Deviation Studios closing53:15 Spider-Man: The Great Web MMO footage58:50 Another good month for PS Plus01:07:10 The PS5 Pro spec leaks

Utah Avalanche Center forecast, Ideas abound for Kamas' Ure Ranch to be purchased by Summit County, Heber City Councilmember Mike Johnston on the council retreat and priorities outlined for year, Utah water conditions update with Laura Haskell from the Utah Department of Natural Resources, LDS Church seeks to join temple lawsuit as defendant, Greg Graham, board of Intermountain Masters, discusses this weekend's alpine race at PCMR, Council sets date to decide on Dakota Pacific development, Heber City Council to make downtown an evening destination, Yarrow hotel redevelopment returns to Park City Planning Commission and Sunrise Gondola Project was approved, here's what's next.

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Nov. 2. It dropped for free subscribers on Nov. 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:WhoDeirdra Walsh, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Park City, UtahRecorded onOctober 18, 2023About Park CityClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail ResortsLocated in: Park City, UtahYear founded: 1963Pass affiliations:* Epic Pass: unlimited* Epic Local Pass: unlimited with holiday blackouts* Tahoe Local: five non-holiday days combined with Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Crested Butte, Keystone* Epic Day Pass: access with All Resorts tierClosest neighboring ski areas: Deer Valley (:04), Utah Olympic Park (:09), Woodward Park City (:11), Snowbird (:50), Alta (:55), Solitude (1:00), Brighton (1:08) – or just ski between them all; travel times vary massively pending weather, traffic, and time of yearBase elevation: 6,800 feetSummit elevation: 9,998 feet at the top of Jupiter (can hike to 10,026 on Jupiter Peak)Vertical drop: 3,226 feetSkiable Acres: 7,300 acresAverage annual snowfall: 355 inchesTrail count: 330+ (50% advanced/expert, 42% intermediate, 8% beginner)Lift count: 41 (2 eight-passenger gondolas, 1 pulse gondola, 1 cabriolet, 6 high-speed six-packs, 10 high-speed quads, 5 fixed-grip quads, 7 triples, 4 doubles, 3 carpets, 2 ropetows – view Lift Blog's inventory of Park City's lift fleet)View historic Park City trailmaps on skimap.org.Why I interviewed herAn unfortunate requirement of this job is concocting differentiated verbiage to describe a snowy hill equipped with chairlifts. Most often, I revert to the three standbys: ski area, mountain, and resort/ski resort. I use them interchangeably, as one may use couch/sofa or dinner/supper (for several decades, I thought oven/stove to be a similar pairing; imagine my surprise to discover that these words described two separate parts of one familiar machine). But that is problematic, of course, because while every enterprise that I describe is some sort of ski area, only around half of them are anywhere near an actual mountain. And an even smaller percentage of those are resorts. Still, I swap the trio around like T-shirts in the world's smallest wardrobe, hoping my readers value the absence of repetition more than they resent the mental gymnastics required to consider 210-vertical-foot Snow Snake, Michigan a “ski resort.”But these equivalencies introduce a problem when I get to Park City. At 7,300 acres, Park City sprawls over 37 percent more terrain than Vail Mountain, Vail Resorts' second-largest U.S. ski area, and the fourth-biggest in the nation overall. To call this a “ski area” seems inadequate, like describing an aircraft carrier as a “boat.” Even “mountain” feels insubstantial, as Park City's forty-some-odd lifts shoots-and-ladder their way over at least a dozen separate summits. “Ski resort” comes closest to capturing the grandeur of the whole operation, but even that undersells the experience, given that the ski runs are directly knotted to the town below them – a town that is a ski town but is also so much more.In recent years, “megaresort” has settled into the ski lexicon, usually as a pejorative describing a thing to be avoided, a tourist magnet that has swapped its soul for a Disney-esque welcome mat. “Your estimated wait time to board the Ultimate Super Summit Interactive 4D 8K Turbo Gondola is [one hour and 45 minutes]”. The “megas,” freighted with the existential burden of Epic and Ikon flagships, carry just a bit too much cruise ship mass-escapism and Cheesecake Factory illusions of luxe to truly capture that remote wilderness fantasy that is at least half the point of skiing. Right?Not really. Not any more than Times Square captures the essence of New York City or the security lines outside the ballpark distill the experience of consuming live sports. Yes, this is part of it, like the gondola lines winding back to the interstate are part of peak-day Park City. Those, along with the Epic Pass or the (up to) $299 lift ticket, are the cost of admission. But get through the gates, and a sprawling kingdom awaits.I don't know how many people ski Park City on a busy day. Let's call it 20,000. The vast majority of them are going to spend the vast majority of their day lapping the groomers, which occupy a small fraction of Park City's endless varied terrain. With its cascading hillocks, its limitless pitch-perfect glades, its lifts shooting every which way like hammered-together contraptions in some snowy realm of silver-miners - their century-old buildings and conveyor belts rising still off the mountain – Park City delivers a singular ski experience. Call it a “mountain,” a “ski area,” a “ski resort,” or a “megaresort” – all are accurate but also inadequate. Park City, in the lexicon of American skiing, stands alone.What we talked aboutPark City's deep 2022-23 winter; closing on May 1; skiing Missouri; Lake Tahoe; how America's largest ski area runs as a logistical and cultural unit; living through the Powdr-to-Vail ownership transition; the awesome realization that Park City and Canyons were one; Vail's deliberate culture of women's empowerment; the history and purpose of those giant industrial structures dotting Park City ski area; how you can tour them; the novel relationship between the ski area and the town at its base; Park City's Olympic legacy; thoughts on future potential Winter Olympic Games in Utah and at Park City; why a six-pack and an eight-pack chairlift scheduled for installation at Park City last year never happened; where those lifts went instead; whether those upgrades could ever happen; the incoming Sunrise Gondola; the logic of the Over And Out lift; Red Pine Gondola improvements; why the Jupiter double is unlikely to be upgraded anytime soon; Town Lift; reflecting on year one of paid parking; and the massive new employee housing development at Canyons.      Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewIf only The Storm had existed in 2014. Because wouldn't that have been fun? Hostile takeovers are rare in skiing. You normally can't give a ski area (sorry, a super-megaresort) away. Vail taking this one off Powdr's lunch tray is kind of amazing, kind of sad, kind of disturbing, and kind scary. Like, did that really happen? It did, so onward we go.Walsh, as it happened, worked at Park City at the time, though in a much different role, so we talked about what is was like to live through the transition. But two other events shape our modern perception of Park City: The Olympics and The Lifts.The Olympics, of course, came to Park City in 2002. On this podcast a few weeks back, Snowbird General Manager Dave Fields outlined the dramatic changes the Games wrought on Utah skiing. Suddenly, everyone on the planet realized that a half dozen ski resorts that averaged between 300 and 500 inches of snow per winter were lined up 45 minutes from a major international airport on good roads. And they were like, “Wait that's real?” And they all starting coming – annual Utah skier visits have more than doubled since the Olympics, from around 3 million in winter 2001-02 to more than 7 million in last year's amazing ski season. Which is cool. But the Olympics are (probably) coming back to Salt Lake, in 2030 or 2034, and Park City will likely be a part of them again. So we talk about that.The Lifts refers to this story that I covered last October:Last September, Vail Resorts announced what was likely the largest set of single-season lift upgrades in the history of the world: $315-plus million on 19 lifts (later increased to 21 lifts) across 14 ski areas. Two of those lifts would land in Park City: a D-line eight-pack would replace the Silverlode six, and a six-pack would replace the Eagle and Eaglet triples. Two more lifts in a town with 62 of them (Park City sits right next door to Deer Valley). Surely this would be another routine project for the world's largest ski area operator.It wasn't. In June, four local residents – Clive Bush, Angela Moschetta, Deborah Rentfrow, and Mark Stemler – successfully appealed the Park City Planning Commission's previous approval of the lift projects.“The upgrades were appealed on the basis that the proposed eight-place and six-place chairs were not consistent with the 1998 development agreement that governs the resort,” SAM wrote at the time. “The planning commission also cited the need for a more thorough review of the resort's comfortable carrying capacity calculations and parking mitigation plan, finding PCM's proposed paid parking plan at the Mountain Village insufficient.”So instead of rising on the mountain, the lifts spent the summer, in pieces, in the parking lot. Vail admitted defeat, at least temporarily. “We are considering our options and next steps based on today's disappointing decision—but one thing is clear—we will not be able to move forward with these two lift upgrades for the 22-23 winter season,” Park City Mountain Resort Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Deirdra Walsh said in response to the decision.One of the options Vail apparently considered was trucking the lifts to friendlier locales. Last Wednesday, as part of its year-end earnings release, Vail announced that the two lifts would be moved to Whistler and installed in time for the 2023-24 ski season. The eight-pack will replace the 1,129-vertical-foot Fitzsimmons high-speed quad on Whistler, giving the mountain 18 seats (!) out of the village (the lift runs alongside the 10-passenger Whistler Village Gondola). The six-pack will replace the Jersey Cream high-speed quad on Blackcomb, a midmountain lift with a 1,230-foot vertical rise. These will join the new Big Red six-pack and 10-passenger Creekside Gondola going in this summer on the Whistler side, giving the largest ski area on the continent four new lifts in two years. …Meanwhile, Park City skiers will have to continue riding Silverlode, a sixer dating to 1996, and Eagle, a 1993 Garaventa CTEC triple (the Eaglet lift, unfortunately, is already gone). The vintage of the remaining lifts don't sound particularly creaky, but both were built for a different, pre-Epic Pass Park City, and one that wasn't connected via the Quicksilver Gondola to the Canyons side of the resort. Vail targeted these choke points to improve the mountain's flow. But skiers are stuck with them indefinitely.On paper, Vail remains “committed to resolving our permit to upgrade the Eagle and Silverlode lifts in Park City.” I don't doubt that. But I wonder if the four individuals who chose to choke up this whole process understand the scale of what they just destroyed. Those two lifts, combined, probably cost somewhere around $50 million. Minimum. Maybe the resort will try again. Maybe it won't. Surely Vail can find a lot of places to spend its money with far less friction.All of which I thought was rather hilarious, for a number of reasons. First, stopping an enormous project on procedural grounds for nebulous reasons is the most U.S. American thing ever. Second, the more these sorts of over-the-top stall tactics are wielded for petty purposes (ski areas need to be able to upgrade chairlifts), the more likely we are to lose them, as politicians who never stop bragging about how “business-friendly” Utah is look to streamline these pesky checks and balances. Third, Vail unapologetically yanking those things out of the parking lot and hauling them up to BC was the company's brashest move since it punched Powdr in the face and took its resort away. It was harsh but necessary, a signal that the world keeps moving around the sun even when a small group of nitwits want it to stop on its axis.Questions I wish I'd askedOn Scott's Bowl accessI wanted to ask Walsh about the strange fact that Scott's Bowl and West Scott's Bowl – two high-alpine sections off Jupiter, suddenly closed in 2018 and stayed shut for four years. This story from the Park Record tells it well enough:Park City Mountain Resort on Tuesday said a high-altitude swath of terrain has reopened more than three years after a closure caused by the inability of the resort and the landowner to reach a lease agreement. …PCMR in December of 2018 indefinitely closed the terrain. The closure also included terrain located between Scott's Bowl and Constellation, a nearby ski run. The resort at the time of the closure said the landowner opted not to renew a lease. There had been an agreement in place for longer than 14 years, PCMR said at the time.A firm called Silver King Mining Company, with origins dating to Park City's silver-mining era, owns the land. The lease and renewals had been struck between the Gallivan family-controlled Silver King Mining Company and Powdr Corp., the former owner of PCMR. A representative of Silver King Mining Company in late 2018 indicated the firm traditionally accepted lift passes as compensation for the use of the land.The lease went to Vail Resorts when it acquired PCMR. The two sides negotiated a one-year extension but were unable at the time to reach a long-term agreement, the Silver King Mining Company side said in late 2018.Land ownership, particularly in the west, can be a wild patchwork. The majority of large western ski areas sit on National Forest Service land, but Park City (and neighboring Deer Valley), do not. While this grants them some developmental advantages over their neighbors in the Cottonwoods, who sit mostly or entirely on public land, it also means that sprawling Park City has more landlords than it would probably like.On Park City Epic Pass accessThis is the first Vail Resorts interview in a while where I haven't asked the question about Epic Pass access. I don't have a high-minded reason for that – I simply ran out of time.On the strange aversion to safety bars among Western U.S. skiersWhen you ski in Europe or, to a lesser-extent, the Northeastern U.S., skiers lower the chairlift safety bar reflexively, and typically before the carrier has exited the loading terminal. While I found this jarring when I first moved to New York from the Midwest – where safety bars remain rare – I quickly adapted, and now find it disconcerting to ride a chair without one.This whole dynamic is flipped in the West, where a sort of tough-guy bravado prevails, and skiers tend to ride with the safety bar aloft as a matter of stubborn pride. Many seem shocked, even offended, when I announce that I'm lowering it (and I always announce it, and bring it down slowly). Perhaps they are afraid their friends will see them riding with a lame tourist. It's all a bit tedious and stupid. I've had a few incidents where I've passed out for mysterious reasons. If that happens on a chairlift, I'd rather not die before I regain consciousness. So I like the bar. Vail Resorts, however, mandates that all employees lower the safety bar when in uniform. That doesn't mean they always do it. This past January, a Park City ski patroller died when a tree fell on the Short Cut liftline, flinging him into a snowbank, where he suffocated. Utah Occupational Safety and Health (UOSH) fined the resort a laughably inadequate sum of $2,500 for failing to clear potential hazards around the lift. UOSH's report did not indicate whether the patroller, 29-year-old Christian Helger, had lowered his safety bar, and experts who spoke to Fox 13 in Salt Lake City said that it may not have mattered. “With that type of hit from the weight of that type of a tree with that much snow on it, I don't know that the safety bar would have prevented this incident,” Travis Heggie, a Bowling Green State University professor, told the station.Fair enough. But a man is dead, and understanding the exact circumstances surrounding his death may help prevent another in the future. This is why airplane travel is so safe – regulators consider every factor of every tragedy to engineer similar failures out of future flights. We ought to be doing the same with chairlifts.Chairlifts are, on the whole, very safe to ride. But accidents, when they do happen, can be catastrophic. Miroslava “Mirka” Lewis, a former Stevens Pass employee, recently sued Vail Resorts after a fall from one of Stevens Pass' antique Riblet chairs in January of 2022 left her permanently disabled. From a local paper out of Everett, Washington:The lawsuit claims the ski lift Lewis was operating was designed in the 1960s by Riblet Tramway Company and lacked several safety precautions now considered standard in modern lifts. The lift suspended two chairs from a single pole in the center, with no safety bars or bails on the outside to confine passengers.Lewis suffered a traumatic brain injury, collapsed lung, four fractured vertebrae and other severe injuries, according to the complaint. She required multiple surgeries on her breasts and knees.The plaintiff also reportedly had to relearn how to speak, walk and write due to the severity of her injuries.It is unclear which lift Lewis was riding, but two centerpole Riblets remained at the resort last January: Kehr's and Seventh Heaven. Kehr's has since been removed. Vail Resorts, as a general policy, retrofits all of its chairlifts with safety bars, but these chairs' early-1960s recessed centerpole design is impossible to retrofit. So the lifts remain in their vintage state. It's a bit like buying a '57 Chevy – damn, does that thing look sweet, but if you drive it into a tree, you're kinda screwed without that seatbelt.Vail Resorts, by retrofitting its chairlifts and mandating employee use, has done more than probably any other entity to encourage safety bar use on chairlifts. But the industry, as a whole, could do more. In the east, safety bar use has been normalized by aggressive enforcement from lift crews and ski patrol and, in some cases (Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York), state laws mandating their use. Yet, across the West and the Midwest, hundreds of chairlifts still lack safety bars, let alone enforcement. That, in turn, discourages normalization of their use, and contributes to the blasé and dismissive attitude among western skiers, many of whom view the contraptions as extraneous.Technology can eventually resolve the issue for us – the new Burns high-speed quad at Deer Valley and the new Camelot six-pack at The Highlands in Michigan both drop the bar automatically, and raise it just before unload. But that's two chairlifts, at two very high-end resorts, out of 2,400 or so spinning in America. That technology is too expensive to apply at scale, and will be for the foreseeable future.So what to do? I think it starts with dismantling the tough-guy resistance. There are echoes here of the shift to widespread helmet use. Twenty years ago, almost no one, including me, wore helmets when skiing. I held out for a particularly long time – until 2016. But wearing them is the norm now, even among Western Bro Brahs. As the leader of a major Vail ski area who has watched the resort evolve first-hand, I think Walsh would have some valuable insights here into the roots of bar resistance and how Vail is tackling it, but we just didn't have the time to get into it.What I got wrongI noted that Nadia Guerriero, who appeared on this podcast last year as the VP/COO of Beaver Creek, had “transitioned to a regional leadership role.” That role is senior vice president and chief operating officer of Vail Resorts' Rockies Region.Park City personnel also provided a few clarifications following our conversation:* When discussing our 2023 closing date and “All the Way to May!” Deirdra said we had already extended our season by a week. In fact, our first extension was for two weeks: from April 9 to April 23. On April 12, we announced an additional eight days.* When discussing how we memorialize our Olympic legacy, Deirdra stated, “We have a mountain in the base area.” That should have been “monument.”* When discussing our lift upgrade permit, Deirdra said, “Our permit was upheld.” This should have been EITHER withheld, OR “The appeal was upheld.”Why you should ski Park CityPark City is a version of something that America needs a lot more of: a walkable community integrated with the ski area above it in a meaningful and seamless way. In Europe, this is the norm. In U.S. America, the exception. Only a few towns give you that experience: Telluride, Aspen, Red River. Park City is worth a visit for that experience alone – of sliding to the street, clicking out of your skis, and walking to the bar. It's novel and unexpected here in the land of King Car, but it feels very natural and right when you do it.The skiing, of course, is outstanding. There's less chest-thumping here than up in the Cottonwoods – less snow, too – but still plenty of steep stuff, plenty of glades, plenty of tucked-away spots where you look around and wonder where everyone went. Zip around off McConkey's or Jupiter or Tombstone or Ninety-Nine 90 or Super Condor and you'll find it. This is not Snowbird-off-the-Cirque stuff, but it's pretty good.But what Park City really is, at its core, is one of the world's great intermediate ski kingdoms. I'm talking here about King Con and Silverlode, the amazing jumble of blues skier's right off Tombstone, Saddleback and Dreamscape and Iron Mountain. You can ride express lifts pretty much everywhere as you skip around the low-angle glory. The mountain does not shoot skyward with the drama of Jackson or Palisades or Snowbird or Aspen. It rises and falls, rolls on forever, gifting you, off each summit, another peak to ride to.Before Vail bought it and stapled the resort together with the Canyons, no one talked about Park City in such epic – no pun intended – terms. It was just another of dozens of very good western ski areas. But that combination with its neighbor created something vast and otherworldly, six-and-a-half miles end-to-end, a scale that cannot be appreciated in any way other than to go ski it.Podcast NotesOn Vail's target opening and closing datesIn previous seasons, Vail Resorts would release target opening and closing dates for all of its ski areas. Perhaps traumatized by short seasons, particularly in the Midwest, the company released only target opening dates, and only for its largest ski areas, for 2023:The remainder of its ski areas, “expect to open consistent with target dates shared in years past,” according to a Vail Resorts press release.On Hidden Valley, MissouriWalsh's first ski experience was at Hidden Valley, a 320-footer just west of St. Louis. It's one of just two ski areas in Missouri (both of which Vail owns). Vail happened to acquire this little guy in the 2019 Peak Resorts acquisition. Here's a trailmap:Not to be confused, of course, with Vail's other Hidden Valley, which is stashed in Pennsylvania:Rather than renaming one or the other of these, I am actually in favor of just massively confusing everything by renaming every mountain in the portfolio “Vail Mountain” followed by its zip code. On the Vail-Powdr transitionI'll reset this 2019 story from the Park Record that I initially shared in the article accompanying my podcast conversation with Mount Snow GM Brian Suhadolc in August, who also worked at Park City during Vail's takeover from Powdr:In some circles, though, the whispers had already started that something was afoot, and perhaps not right, at PCMR. Powdr Corp. for some unknown reason was negotiating a sale of its flagship resort, the most prevalent of the rumblings held. The CEO of Powdr Corp., John Cumming, late in 2011 had publicly stated there was not a deal involving PCMR under negotiation, telling Park City leaders during a Marsac Building appearance in December of that year the resort was “not for sale.” Later that evening, he told The Park Record the rumors “always amuse me.”The reality was far more astonishing and something that would define the decade in Park City in a similar fashion as the Olympics did in the previous 10-year span and the population boom did in the 1990s.The corporate infrastructure in the spring of 2011 had inadvertently failed to renew two leases on the land underlying most of the PCMR terrain, propelling the PCMR side and the landowner, a firm under the umbrella of Talisker Corp., into what were initially private negotiations and then into a dramatic lawsuit that unfolded in state court as the Park City community, the tourism industry and the North American ski industry watched in disbelief. As the decade ends, the turmoil that beset PCMR stands, in many ways, as the instigator of a changing Park City that has left so many Parkites uneasy about the city's future as a true community.The PCMR side launched the litigation in March of 2012, saying the future of the resort was at stake in the case. PCMR might be forced to close if it did not prevail, the president and general manager of the resort at the time said at the outset of the case. Talisker Land Holdings, LLC countered that the leases had expired, suddenly leaving doubts that Powdr Corp. would retain control of PCMR. …Colorado-based Vail Resorts, one of Powdr Corp.'s industry rivals, would enter the case on the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC side in May of 2013 with the aim of wresting the disputed land from Powdr Corp. and coupling it with nearby Canyons Resort, which was branded a Vail Resorts property as part of a long-term lease and operations agreement reached at the same time of the Vail Resorts entry into the case. Vail Resorts was already an industry behemoth with its namesake property in the Rockies and other mountain resorts across North America. The addition of Canyons Resort would advance the Vail Resorts portfolio in one of North America's key skiing states.It was a deft maneuver orchestrated by the chairman and CEO of Vail Resorts, Rob Katz. The agreement was pegged at upward of $300 million in long-term debt. As part of the deal, Vail Resorts also seized control of the litigation on behalf of Talisker Land Holdings, LLC. …The lawsuit itself unfolded with stunning developments followed by shocking ones over the course of two-plus years. In one stupefying moment, the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC attorneys discovered a crucial letter from the PCMR side regarding the leases had been backdated. In another such moment, PCMR outlined plans to essentially dismantle the resort infrastructure, possibly on an around-the-clock schedule, if it was ordered off the disputed land.What was transpiring in the courtroom was inconceivable to the community. How could Powdr Corp., even inadvertently, not renew the leases on the ground that made up most of the skiing terrain at PCMR, many asked. Why couldn't Powdr Corp. and Talisker Land Holdings, LLC just reach a new agreement, others wondered. And many became weary as businessmen and their attorneys took to the courtroom with the future of PCMR, critical to a broad swath of the local economy, at stake. The mood eventually shifted to exasperation as it appeared there was a chance PCMR would not open for a ski season if Talisker Land Holdings, LLC moved forward with an eviction against Powdr Corp. from the disputed terrain.The lawsuit wore on with the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC-Vail Resorts side winning a series of key rulings from the 3rd District Court judge presiding over the case. Judge Ryan Harris in the summer of 2014 signed a de facto eviction notice against PCMR and ordered the sides into mediation. Powdr Corp., realizing there was little more that could be accomplished as it attempted to maintain control of PCMR, negotiated a $182.5 million sale of the resort to Vail Resorts that September.Incredible. Here, if you're curious, was Park City just before the merger:And Canyons:Now, imagine if someone, someday, merged this whole operation with the expanded version of Deer Valley, which sits right next door to Park City on Empire Peak:Here's a closer look at the border between the two, which is separated by ropes, rather than by any geographic barrier:Right around the time Vail took over Park City, all seven major local ski areas discussed a “One Wasatch” interconnect, which could be accomplished with a handful of lifts between Brighton and Park City and between Solitude and Alta (the Canyons/Park City connection below has since been built; Brighton and Solitude already share a ski link, as do Alta and Snowbird):This plan died under an avalanche of external factors, and is unlikely to be resurrected anytime soon. However, the mountains aren't getting any farther apart physically, and at some point we're going to accept that a few aerial lifts through the wilderness are a lot less damaging to our environment than thousands of cars cluttering up our roads.On the Park City-Canyons connector gondolaWe talked a bit about the Quicksilver Gondola, which, eight years after its construction, is taken for granted. But it's an amazing machine, a 7,767-foot-long connector that fused Park City to the much-larger Canyons, creating the largest interconnected ski resort in the United States. The fact that such a major, transformative lift opened in 2015, just a year after Vail acquired Park City, and the ski area is now having trouble simply upgrading two older lifts, speaks to how dramatically sentiment around the resort has changed within town.On Park City's mining historyAn amazing feature of skiing Park City is the gigantic warehouses, conveyor belts, and other industrial artifacts that dot the landscape. Visit Park City hosts free daily tours of these historic structures, which we discuss in the podcast. You can learn more here.On the Friends of Ski Mountain Mining HistoryWalsh mentions an organization called “Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History.” This group assumes the burden of restoring and maintaining all of these historic structures. From their website:More than 300 mines once operated in Park City, with the last silver mine closing in 1982. Twenty historic mine structures still exist today, many can been seen while skiing, hiking or mountain biking on our mountain trails. Due to the ravages of time and our harsh winters, many of the mine structures are dilapidated and in critical need of repair. We are committed to preserving our rich mining legacy for future residents and visitors before we lose these historic structures forever.Over the past seven years, our dedicated volunteers have completed stabilization of the King Con Counterweight, California Comstock Mill, Jupiter Ore Bin, Little Bell Ore Bin, two Silver King Water Tanks, the Silver Star Boiler Room and Coal Hopper, the Thaynes Conveyor and the King Con Ore Bin. Previous projects undertaken by our members include the Silver King Aerial Tramway Towers and two Silver King Water Tanks adjacent to the Silver Queen ski run. Our lecture with Clark Martinez, principal contractor on our projects and Jonathan Richards who is our structural engineer, will provide you insight as to how we saved these monuments to our mining era.Preserving our mining heritage is expensive. Our next challenge is to save the Silver King Headframe located at the base of the Bonanza lift and Thaynes Headframe near the Thaynes lift at Park City Mountain Resort. These massive buildings and adjacent structures will take 6 years to stabilize with an expected cost of $3 million. We are embarking on a capital campaign to raise the funds required to save these iconic structures. You can learn more about our campaign here.Here's a cool but slow-paced video about it:On the 2030/34 Winter OlympicsWe talk a bit about the potential for Salt Lake City – and, by extension, host mountains Park City, Deer Valley, and Snowbasin – to host a future Olympic Games. While both 2030 and 2034 are possibilities, the latter increasingly looks likely. Per an October Deseret News article:It looks like there's no competition for Salt Lake City's bid to host the 2034 Winter Games.International Olympic Committee members voted Sunday to formally award both the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games together next year after being told Salt Lake City's preference is for 2034 and the other three candidates still in the race are finalizing bids for 2030.“I think it's everything we could have hoped for,” said Fraser Bullock, president and CEO of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, describing the decision as “a tremendous step forward” now that Salt Lake City was identified as the only candidate for 2034.Salt Lake City is bidding to host the more than $2.2 billion event in either 2030 or 2034, but has made it clear waiting until the later date is better financially, because that will avoid competition for domestic sponsors with the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.The next step for the bid that began more than a decade ago is a virtual presentation to the IOC's Future Host Commission for the Winter Games during the week starting Nov. 19 that will include Gov. Spencer Cox and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall. IOC Executive Board members will decide when they meet from Nov. 30 through Dec. 1 which bids will advance to contract negotiations for 2030 and 2034, known as targeted dialogue under the new, less formal selection process. Their choices to host the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games will go to the full membership for a final ratification vote next year, likely in July just before the start of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. The Summer Olympics have evolved into a toxic expense that no one really wants. The Winter Games, however, still seem desirable, and I've yet to encounter any significant resistance from the Utah ski community, who have (not entirely but in significant pockets) kind of made resistence to everything their default posture.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. 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You can also subscribe for free below:WhoBrian Suhadolc, General Manager of Mount Snow, VermontRecorded onJuly 17, 2023About Mount SnowClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail ResortsLocated in: Dover, VermontYear founded: 1954Pass affiliations:* Epic Pass and Epic Local Pass: Unlimited access* Epic Northeast Value Pass: Unlimited access with holiday blackouts* Epic Northeast Midweek Pass: Unlimited access with weekend and holiday blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Hermitage Club (9 minutes), Stratton (23 minutes), Bromley (36 minutes), Magic Mountain (39 minutes)Base elevation: 1,900 feetSummit elevation: 3,600 feetVertical drop: 1,700 feetSkiable Acres: 601Average annual snowfall: 150 inchesTrail count: 80 (15% advanced/expert, 70% intermediate, 15% beginner)Lift count: 19 (2 six-packs, 4 high-speed quads, 5 triples, 2 doubles, 1 ropetow, 5 magic carpets – view Lift Blog's inventory of Mount Snow's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himThis is my second podcast focused on Mount Snow. The first episode featured then-GM Tracy Bartels, in November 2020. Our focus then was Covid: as in, what the hell were we going to do about it? The ski industry had spent eight months from the March shutdowns preparing for a masked world of closed ski bars and social distancing. Was this actually going to work?It did, of course. Sort of. But that podcast from 2020 has little to do with the Mount Snow of 2023, which has evolved substantially in just three years. It was time for an update.I'm also owning the fact that I overcorrected when I took The Storm national in 2021. In the pod's first two years, I'd interviewed the heads of most of New England's largest ski areas. Check, check, check. Done. I needed to establish this thing in the Rockies, the Cascades, the Sierras, the Wasatch. And I did. But a lot of my New England listeners felt snubbed. I'd built this thing on their attention and enthusiasm, and now I was pivoting away.It's time to pivot back a bit. The lift-served ski world is changing fast, especially among those giants with access to capital and ambition. So I've scheduled upcoming podcast conversations with the leaders of Killington and Sunday River, both of which I've profiled in the past. I'll pursue more such follow-ups in the future, in all regions – and not just with mega-resorts, as the recent second installment with the owners of Plattekill demonstrated. The long-term goal is to alternate podcasts so that every other episode focuses on the West, with the East/Midwest/Mid-Atlantic occupying the alternate slots.But setting aside my own admin, I'm focusing on Mount Snow because it's an incredibly important mountain. I'll reset what I wrote in this same section three years ago:Because Mount Snow is where big-time Northeast skiing begins. As the southern-most major Vermont ski area, it is a skier's gateway to mountains that are big enough to get lost on. From its strategic position in the orbit of the East Coast megalopolis, successive owners have gradually built something uniquely suited to the frenetic swarms of wildly varied skiers who bullseye the place each winter: Mount Snow has one of the most outstanding terrain parks in America and one of the best snowmaking systems in the world. The families who swarm here find absolutely unintimidating terrain, blue as the sky and groomed smoother than I-91. It's a perfect family mountain and a perfect bus skier's mountain and a perfect first step from Mount Local to something that shows you how big skiing can be. It was the crown jewel of the Peak Resort's empire, and it's one of the most important pieces to Vail's ever-expanding Epic jigsaw puzzle. I wouldn't call it a special mountain – the terrain is mild and not terribly interesting, and the volume and quality of natural snowfall is best described as adequate. But it is a vital mountain, as the southern-most anchor of Vermont's teeming ski scene, as an accessible ski experience for weekending cityfolk, as an aspirational destination for people stepping more fully into skiing culture, and as a testament to the power of the imagination to transform a big vertical drop and cold skies into a vital and vibrant node of the regional ski scene.What we talked aboutSurveying damage from the July rainstorm; the Epic Promise Foundation; Mount Snow's four-foot March snowstorm; the frantic hilarity of New England powder days; the difference between east and west coast pow; breaking down Mount Snow's lift upgrades at Sundance, Sunbrook, and Heavy Metal; how the Sundance six-pack “changed the dynamic of the ski resort”; why Sundance – unlike the mega-popular Bluebird Express – does not have bubbles; how the resort manages 18 high-speed out-of-base seats; the four most-utilized lifts at Mount Snow; how Mount Snow built the Sunbrook lift in a roadless section of mountain; what it took to convert the Heavy Metal lift from a double to a triple; why Vail auctioned the individual chairs from the old Sunbrook rather than selling the lift – a 1990 CTEC quad – to a smaller ski area; talking through long-term upgrades to Nitro; why the resort doesn't add more chairs to the current Nitro to boost its capacity from 2,100 skiers per hour to 2,400; the status of paid parking two years in; impressions of New England ski culture; the difference between running a mountain in the east and in the west; what happens when Vail surprise-buys your resort; connecting Park City to The Canyons via gondola – “the magnitude of it was not lost on me”; the mining facilities still scattered across Park City; career opportunity within Vail Resorts; Mount Snow's monster snowmaking system; why Mount Snow has become Vail's late-season New England operator, rather than Wildcat; why Carinthia is the mountain's late-operating pod; whether we could ever see another October opening at Mount Snow; potential upgrades for the North Face lifts; assessing the Beartrap double; contemplating the future of Grand Summit; whether we could ever see a detach lift on beginner terrain at Mount Snow; whether the Epic Local Pass is the correct unlimited-access pass for Mount Snow; the popularity of Northeast-specific Epic Passes; the Epic Day Pass; and Vail Resorts' day-ticket limits for the 2022-23 ski season.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewEver since Peak Resorts built the Bluebird Express six-pack in 2011, Mount Snow has had a problem: the lift, with its blue bubbles and ultra-smooth ride, was so flashy and appealing that nobody wanted to ride any other lift on the front side of the mountain. Even the Grand Summit high-speed quad, which runs parallel to Bluebird and serves all the same terrain, had trouble getting attention. This was great for skiers who actively work the mountain, but a real drag for Mount Snow's rap as the most-crowded Southern Vermont ski area.Enter: Vail Resorts' Epic Lift Upgrades of 2022. Mount Snow was the beneficiary of two of the 21 planned lifts (18 of which Vail finished on schedule*): the Sundance and Tumbleweed triples made way for a new six-pack, while the backside Sunbrook lift got a boost from a fixed-grip quad to a detach. Meanwhile, the mountain converted the Heavy Metal double into a triple chair, adding capacity to the popular Carinthia terrain park.Sundance and Sunbrook had one job: give people a reason to ski something besides Bluebird. As far as replacement lifts go, they seemed brilliant. But did the plan work to unknot Mount Snow's gnarliest crowd points?That was one topic Suhadolc and I discussed. Another: was Vail able to recover from its arguably oversold 2021-22 ski season by implementing day-ticket limits and settling into paid-parking plans? And how were those paid parking plans going? And should Mount Snow really be unlimited on the Epic Local Pass?Vail Resorts is entering its fifth winter season operating Mount Snow. With the Peak Resorts transition fully digested and Covid's hassles a memory, the company has no choice but to fully own every piece of the experience. With its size and proximity to New York City, Mount Snow will always be somewhat hectic. New Englanders can tolerate that. Chaos, however, does not belong in this land of picket-fence order. And for a moment post-Covid, Mount Snow seemed to be tilting toward chaos.But no one can say that Vail has not brought big change to the mountain over the past several seasons. Despite daily lift tickets that topped out at $154 this past winter, Mount Snow has never been more affordable to the masses. Unlimited access is just $689 on the Epic Local Pass; subtract holidays with the $567 Northeast Value Pass; minus weekends with the $425 Northeast Midweek Pass. With prices that low at a mountain that big that's as easy to access as Mount Snow is, things could go sideways pretty quick. The new lifts, the parking plans, the lift-ticket limits – all of it is calculated to prevent that from happening.Ski areas are a little bit like novels. They're never really finished. But unlike our great works of literature, we get to edit ski areas after they're published. The version of Mount Snow that we ski today is probably not the best and final version of the hill, but it may also be the best it's ever been,.*Two lifts scheduled to rise in Park City were rerouted to Whistler after spiteful locals revolted; Keystone's Bergman sixer had to wait a year after a construction-road misfire tore up some sensitive high-altitude terrain.What I got wrong* I said that the new Sunbrook high-speed quad clocked a ride time around four minutes. The actual time is closer to six minutes, according to Suhadolc.* I asked Brian why Vail didn't try to re-use the Sunbrook lift – a 1990 CTEC quad that likely had lots of life left on it – at a “smaller ski area.” He explained that Vail does occasionally move a lift within its portfolio. What I had meant to ask, however, was why didn't Mount Snow didn't attempt to sell the lift on the open market to a smaller independent ski area. It's great that Mount Snow sold the chairs and flipped the money to the Epic Promise Foundation, which assists their employees in times of outstanding need, such as the floods that just smashed Okemo. But the company could likely have made more for Epic Promise by selling the entire lift to an independent ski area, many of which are desperate for a modern quad in good working condition.* I said that Vail Resorts purchased Park City Mountain Resort “in 2014 or 2015.” The company bought the resort in 2014, a year after it bought Canyons (which is now part of Park City).* I said the Outpost lift turned 60 this year. Lift Blog, my go-to source for pretty much all things lifts, lists the lift as a 1963 Yan triple. Brian said that it is a 1988 CTEC triple. New England Ski History agrees with Brian. This is not a crack on Lift Blog, which is an excellent resource, so much as on me for not double-checking my references - in fact, I think Tracy Bartels corrected me on the exact same factoid three years ago.* I said that the Northeast Midweek Epic Pass was “less than $400.” This is incorrect. The pass currently costs $425. The early-bird price for the 2023-24 ski season was $416.* When I was running through the various resorts that the Northeast-specific Epic Passes accessed, I left out Mt. Brighton, Michigan.* I noted that Mount Snow had opened in October “once and maybe twice” under Peak Resorts. The only record I can find of Mount Snow opening that early was on Oct. 27, 2018.Why you should ski Mount SnowMount Snow has two big, obvious constituencies: Park Brah and Family Bro.The Carinthia peak is a crucial piece of Peak Resorts' legacy, as important as the Bluebird Express or the tens of millions the company pumped into snowmaking upgrades. Once a separate ski area, the peak is isolated from the mountain proper (though connected both ways by green trails), a thousand vertical feet of straight hits served by a high-speed quad and a triple chair. Park Brahs can park out, Brah. Along with Seven Brothers at Loon, it may be the best terrain park in the eastern United States.Family Bro loves Mount Snow partly because of Carinthia. Radbrah Junior can spend his afternoons there, posted up five wide with his boys, contemplating the hits below. The rest of the mountain, outside of the North Face, is interstate-width and solid blue. Families of almost any ability can manage this terrain. Mount Snow may be home to the best sustained intermediate terrain in New England. It's certainly among the most varied. And the mountain grooms just about every run just about every night, even if I wish they'd chill and let some bumps sprout here and there. Mount Snow's biggest drawback is a relative lack of glades for a mountain of its size. Skiers seeking trees should aim their GPS for Stratton or Magic, both of which have excellent, extensive glade networks.Epic Pass holders need to really pick their spots, though. Both Mount Snow and Okemo reach stampede-level crowding on weekends and holidays (I really don't think either should be unlimited on the Epic Local pass). Head for Stowe at these times if at all possible. Or snag an Indy Pass for peak-day getaways to Magic and Bolton Valley.Podcast NotesOn Heavenly and the Caldor FireWhen discussing Vail Resorts' unified disaster response to the recent Vermont floods, I referred to a similar conversation I'd had with Heavenly COO Tom Fortune in regards to the Caldor Fire that descended on Tahoe two years ago. You can listen to that conversation starting at 56:03 here.On Vermont's monster March snowstormWe discussed a monster snowstorm that descended on Vermont March 14 to 15. Huge snow totals included 45 inches at Bromley, 37 inches at Magic, and 46 inches at Mount Snow.On crushing pow at Mount SnowI discussed the chaos of a pow-day rope-drop at Mount Snow. Unfortunately the only access I have to it is this Twitter video. And since Substack won't embed Twitter videos anymore you'll have to click through to watch it:Too many “suns”I kept getting Mount Snow's “sun” lifts confused. It reminded me of a time I was skiing Snowbird, and a bunch of us were debating where to go next, and my buddy Mike, clearly confused, was just like, “There's too many Gads.” And my God he's right.On the Mount Snow “tram”Brian and I briefly discussed Mount Snow's old “tram,” which transported skiers from a base-area hotel up to the ski hill. It was really more of a whacky speedboat suspended from a cable, as you can see in the rendering on this 1965 trailmap. And yes, that's a double bubble chair beside it:On the Vail Resorts acquisition of Park CityBrian worked at Park City when Vail Resorts swiped it off Powdr Corp's lunch tray after the latter forgot to renew its lease. It was probably the most cartoonishly absurd business transaction in the history of lift-served skiing. Here's Park Record, examining the events as part of a decade-in-review series in late 2019:In some circles, though, the whispers had already started that something was afoot, and perhaps not right, at PCMR. Powdr Corp. for some unknown reason was negotiating a sale of its flagship resort, the most prevalent of the rumblings held. The CEO of Powdr Corp., John Cumming, late in 2011 had publicly stated there was not a deal involving PCMR under negotiation, telling Park City leaders during a Marsac Building appearance in December of that year the resort was “not for sale.” Later that evening, he told The Park Record the rumors “always amuse me.”The reality was far more astonishing and something that would define the decade in Park City in a similar fashion as the Olympics did in the previous 10-year span and the population boom did in the 1990s.The corporate infrastructure in the spring of 2011 had inadvertently failed to renew two leases on the land underlying most of the PCMR terrain, propelling the PCMR side and the landowner, a firm under the umbrella of Talisker Corp., into what were initially private negotiations and then into a dramatic lawsuit that unfolded in state court as the Park City community, the tourism industry and the North American ski industry watched in disbelief. As the decade ends, the turmoil that beset PCMR stands, in many ways, as the instigator of a changing Park City that has left so many Parkites uneasy about the city's future as a true community.The PCMR side launched the litigation in March of 2012, saying the future of the resort was at stake in the case. PCMR might be forced to close if it did not prevail, the president and general manager of the resort at the time said at the outset of the case. Talisker Land Holdings, LLC countered that the leases had expired, suddenly leaving doubts that Powdr Corp. would retain control of PCMR. …Colorado-based Vail Resorts, one of Powdr Corp.'s industry rivals, would enter the case on the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC side in May of 2013 with the aim of wresting the disputed land from Powdr Corp. and coupling it with nearby Canyons Resort, which was branded a Vail Resorts property as part of a long-term lease and operations agreement reached at the same time of the Vail Resorts entry into the case. Vail Resorts was already an industry behemoth with its namesake property in the Rockies and other mountain resorts across North America. The addition of Canyons Resort would advance the Vail Resorts portfolio in one of North America's key skiing states.It was a deft maneuver orchestrated by the chairman and CEO of Vail Resorts, Rob Katz. The agreement was pegged at upward of $300 million in long-term debt. As part of the deal, Vail Resorts also seized control of the litigation on behalf of Talisker Land Holdings, LLC. …The lawsuit itself unfolded with stunning developments followed by shocking ones over the course of two-plus years. In one stupefying moment, the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC attorneys discovered a crucial letter from the PCMR side regarding the leases had been backdated. In another such moment, PCMR outlined plans to essentially dismantle the resort infrastructure, possibly on an around-the-clock schedule, if it was ordered off the disputed land.What was transpiring in the courtroom was inconceivable to the community. How could Powdr Corp., even inadvertently, not renew the leases on the ground that made up most of the skiing terrain at PCMR, many asked. Why couldn't Powdr Corp. and Talisker Land Holdings, LLC just reach a new agreement, others wondered. And many became weary as businessmen and their attorneys took to the courtroom with the future of PCMR, critical to a broad swath of the local economy, at stake. The mood eventually shifted to exasperation as it appeared there was a chance PCMR would not open for a ski season if Talisker Land Holdings, LLC moved forward with an eviction against Powdr Corp. from the disputed terrain.The lawsuit wore on with the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC-Vail Resorts side winning a series of key rulings from the 3rd District Court judge presiding over the case. Judge Ryan Harris in the summer of 2014 signed a de facto eviction notice against PCMR and ordered the sides into mediation. Powdr Corp., realizing there was little more that could be accomplished as it attempted to maintain control of PCMR, negotiated a $182.5 million sale of the resort to Vail Resorts that September.Absolutely brutal and amazing and hard to believe, even nearly a decade later.On Canyons' name historyI mentioned the various names that the former Canyons ski area (now part of Park City), had gone by. Ski Utah provides the complete history:A neighboring ski area and sister resort to Park City Ski Area, called Park City West, opened in 1968. It was renamed ParkWest in 1975 after a change in ownership, then Wolf Mountain in 1995 for just two seasons. In 1997 it became The Canyons after an acquisition by the American Skiing Company before it was purchased by the Talisker Corporation. It was then sold to Vail Resorts in 2014 and subsequently merged with Park City Mountain. Today that base area is known as The Canyons Village at Park City.On Mount Snow's amazing snowmaking systemJust two years before selling its entire portfolio to Vail Resorts, Peak Resorts invested an amazing $30 million into Mount Snow's snowmaking system. The Brattleboro Reformer profiled the system shortly before go-live in 2017:West Lake is actually a sprawling system that begins about 4 miles from Mount Snow.It starts with a small, black, inflatable dam that stretches 18 feet across Cold Brook in Wilmington. From November through March, Mount Snow can inflate that dam as needed, drawing water into the newly constructed reservoir.A sluiceway alongside the dam ensures a flow of water in Cold Brook whether the dam is inflated or not."We were trying to be pretty low-impact, or as low-impact as possible," Storrs said.A nondescript-looking pump house near the dam can send water upward toward Mount Snow at a rate of 11,800 gallons per minute, "which is pretty much double what we used to have in terms of pumping capacity," Storrs said.On a recent morning, crews were putting on finishing touches and conducting tests at that pump house and two others situated farther up the mountain. There's a nearly 600-foot elevation gain between the inflatable dam and the last pump house on Mount Snow's slopes.On Wildcat and the long seasonWe discussed Wildcat's tradition as a late operator. Under Peak Resorts, the ski area would push the season into late April and, occasionally, May. Snowpak has documented Wildcat's closing dates over the past nine years – note the shift to earlier dates after Vail acquired the resort in 2019 (ignore the 2020 date, for obvious reasons):Vail shifted late-season New England operations to Mount Snow for reasons that Brian explains on the podcast. But it's a little incongruous stacked up against the region's other five late operators: Killington, Sugarbush, Jay Peak, Sunday River, and Sugarloaf, all of which are quite a ways north of Mount Snow:On Grand Summit and Yan detachablesI referred to the dreadful safety record of Yan detachable lifts. I broke this history of death and incompetence down in my recent podcast with China Peak GM Tim Cohee (scroll down to the Podcast Notes section).On Epic and Ikon access shifts since 2020I keep asking Vail Resorts' GMs if their ski areas are placed on the appropriate Epic Pass tier, mostly because it's amazing to me that an unlimited season pass to a mountain like Breckenridge or Mount Snow or Stevens Pass could be $676 – the early-bird price of 2023-24 Epic Local Passes. The Ikon Pass, as I noted on the podcast, has shifted its pass structure all over the place the past several seasons, tweaking access to Stratton, Sugarbush, Crystal Mountain, Alta, Aspen, Jackson Hole, Taos, Deer Valley, and Arapahoe Basin. Here's the chart I included in my recent podcast conversation with Alterra CEO Jared Smith to document those changes:I was astonished when Vail kept Stevens Pass on the Epic Local unlimited tier after 2021's well-documented crowding meltdowns. Things got so wild in Washington that Alterra pulled Crystal off the Ikon Pass' unlimited tier and jacked its season pass price up to $1,700 for the 2022-23 ski season. I still don't really understand this super-bargain access strategy, but Vail has made it clear that they're sticking with it.On the phenomenal deal that is the Epic Day PassWe discussed the Epic Day Pass. This thing really is an amazing deal: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 68/100 in 2023, and number 454 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

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Make compliance easy with Kolide at: https://www.kolide.com/WAN White noise is the right noise! Check out SNOOZ at https://lmg.gg/snooz Save time and automate your social media marketing! Check out Tailwind at https://lmg.gg/tailwindapp Timestamps (Courtesy of NoKi1119) Note: Timing may be off due to sponsor change: 0:00 Chapters 1:46 Intro 2:15 Topic #1 - Terren Tong is officially the new LTT CEO 3:11 Linus's busy week, Luke's opinion on Linus & Terren 6:12 How Linus feels, addressing community thoughts 10:06 Can Terren fire Linus? Why Terren specifically? 14:50 Is Linus an okay actor? Is dropping things "acting"? 18:36 Linus on the RTX 4060 video, Luke on Linus dropping stuff 22:31 Linus's guessing segment idea, Linus on the LTX drop 24:56 Linus discussing writing LTT videos, recalls Nick 29:54 LTTStore's new PCMR collab merch 33:22 FP LTT Support Plus subs can access LTX 2023 merch 35:28 LMG & Floatplane are hiring! 36:43 Topic #2 - YouTube restricts adblockers' access 38:20 Twitter requires login to watch videos, Linus on revenue 40:14 Linus recalls The Simpsons, thoughts on this approach 46:10 Luke on YT Premium & Spotify, Linus on family accounts 51:08 Topic #3 - Activision's "hallucinations" anti-cheat 52:38 Steam & Fallout cheater history, ScriptKid's fake CS:GO cheats 54:30 What should LTT do if they caught cheaters in Whale LAN? 56:32 Linus plans 250 seats LANs, variations of cheating 1:01:24 Merch Messages #1 1:02:22 Plans for more woman LTTStore merch? ft. Sarah 1:05:30 Thoughts on a Framework handheld conversion kit? 1:09:20 Nature VS nurture entrepreneurial mindset 1:14:30 Badminton-playing robot in Linus's center? 1:15:52 Stranger than Fiction WAN Show segment 1:16:35 Dan explains the game & punishment 1:17:38 StF #1 - E-bike data stream, "Changeme!" school password, Elon Musk's "burnt hair" perfume 1:18:36 Linus's & Luke's StF #1 choices 1:19:32 StF #2 - Bose's fire hazard recall, Auto drones blackouts, Nintendo's limited hairstyle 1:20:18 Linus's & Luke's StF #2 choices 1:20:30 StF #3 - Flame-throwing robo-dog, AI ASMR YouTuber, robots with insect hands 1:21:12 Linus's & Luke's StF #3 choices 1:21:55 Sponsors 1:24:18 Topic #4 - iOS & Android's screen calls 1:24:26 Linus & Luke discuss screening calls 1:34:00 Topic #5 - Let Me Spy hacked, data breach 1:39:14 Topic #6 - Publisher hires AI writer & editor 1:42:12 Canada passes ONA bill, Linus & Luke on Google news 1:46:33 Topic #7 - Fillian, a VTuber, responds to LTT's shoutout 1:49:18 Topic #8 - LTT TV, continuous backlog livestream 1:54:30 Topic #9 - Community's response to LTT's cooler video 2:02:36 Topic #10 - GameLinked's official debut 2:05:10 Topic #11 - Sovereign Tech Fund's Contribute Back to Open Source challenge 2:05:50 Topic #12 - LTT community outrage at "lack of milk" 2:07:22 Topic #13 - AMD announces limited Ryzen 5 5600X3D 2:09:06 Topic #14 - TikTok's "Creative Challenge" 2:11:20 Merch Messages #2 ft. WAN Show After Dark 2:12:04 What series would you revive? ft. Yvonne, Linus's dad's joke 2:15:30 Ever wanted to flex your internet clout for your kids? 2:19:56 Anyone of you used Microsoft Bob? 2:24:48 Subtle changes with Terren as the CEO? 2:28:00 Is the translucent screwdriver going to be a product? 2:28:36 Was Linus nervous about being a boss? 2:33:22 Past problems while working with subreddits? 2:35:20 Realistic end goal for LTT? 2:37:54 Linus is presented as humble, opinions on the employer style? 2:39:48 Microsoft's Assassin Creed impact on Skull and Bones? 2:42:45 What's the backstory of the Linus selfie pic? 2:44:03 Quality assurance work that was put into the screwdriver? 2:44:45 Would the Noctua screwdriver be limited? 2:45:00 Parts of your job that you enjoy that aren't thought of as your job? 2:45:56 Things you knew about housing that everyone should know? 2:45:38 Videos you decided to make private? 2:48:40 How often would you replace hard drives? Is it a dead tech? 2:50:08 What do you do with a creators block? 2:50:48 Outro

Here are all of the questions we answer this week: - Why didn't PlayStation have a showcase in 2022? - Which games will be nominated for Game of the Year 2022? - Should Sony adopt DirectX for the PS6? - Is anyone excited about Call of Duty's open-world mode? - Do PC Gamers realize “PCMR” is an insult? - What do Nintendo's recent financials say about the Switch? - How have you evolved as a gamer? - Did your 2022 hype game live up to expectations? - What is the best-written game you ever played? Thanks as always to Shawn Daley for our intro and outro music. Follow him on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/shawndaley Where to find Throwdown Show: Website: https://audioboom.com/channels/5030659 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/throwdownshow Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThrowdownShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/throwdownshow Discord: https://discord.gg/fdBXWHT Twitter list: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1027719155800317953

W dzisiejszym odcinku udało Nam się porozmawiać z gościem, który został skazany na dożywocie za grę na..."sam wiesz na czym". I wcale Nam go nie szkoda, niech gnije, tym bardziej, że całe swoje życie poświęcił się konsolom i to nie samej grze na nich, ale również na ich kolekcjonowaniu. No więc z mikrofonem wpadamy do więzienia w Sosnowcu i dajemy Wam sprawozdanie jak to jest być w.... Kiedy uporamy się z niesfornym więźniem opowiemy również o ciekawych grach, a będą to między innymi The Quarry, genialne As Dusk Falls czy chociażby BeamNG i Euro Truck Simulator 2. Czemu nie ma tego na konsolach ? No właśnie. Miłego!BeamNGAs Dusk FallsThe QuarryEuro Truck Simulator 2Temat główny: Gang PCMRZłoty Blant: Euro Track SimulatorMożecie komentować pod odcinkiem, na naszym fanpage'u oraz możecie wysłać do nas maile. Poza tym jesteśmy na Youtube'ie i Twitch'uPatronite: Bezimienny Podcast - Patronite.plOgólny: bezimiennypodcast@gmail.comMuzyka: Lukhash - Hongdae See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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To support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Paid subscribers receive thousands of extra words of content each month, plus all podcasts three days before free subscribers.WhoBill Rock, Chief Operating Officer of Vail Resorts Rocky Mountain Region and Executive Vice President of the Mountain DivisionRecorded onJune 13, 2022About Vail Resorts’ Rocky Mountain RegionThis is it, the inner empire. Where hyperbole suits just fine. This is why people in suburban Detroit buy an Epic Pass. To get here. “Aspirational.” That’s Rock’s word for his half-dozen cloud-pokers. It fits. Even for Keystone, a favorite target of the Cool Kids who only ride Snowbird Brah. Whatever. Keystone is great - it’s bigger, as you can see, than Breck, and it’s about to get larger with the Bergman Bowl expansion, opening next winter.Why I interviewed himFor many, just visiting these snowy kingdoms is not enough. Relocation becomes the only option. They turn west, to the mountains, and there they hack out whatever life they can. I’m not talking Grizzly Adams here. They’re not building log cabins and churning their own butter. But housing in most Western ski towns - and certainly the ones listed above - is limited and expensive. Wages are, historically, low. Skiing is expensive, always.For a long time, the skiing was enough to offset the other burdens. Then things changed. Covid, of course. But less discussed is the drying up of immigrant visas of the sort that destinatin resorts had long used to staff front-line positions. The rising labor movement. Workers, suddenly empowered, no longer had to settle for the fast-food wages of decades past. Vail had to adjust, and in March, the company rolled out a $20 minimum wage for frontline workers next season. But another very real factor contributing to last season’s labor shortage was a sudden and dramatic re-ordering of the mountain-town housing market. White collar workers, liberated by remote work, moved en masse to the mountains. This further distorted an already unbalanced market, driving out whatever shadows of affordability remained. So Vail’s plan also included a significant investment in affordable worker housing, on land that - the company emphasized - it already owned. If that sounds like a straightforward proposal, then you are unfamiliar with the workings of U.S. America, where all easy things are hard and all hard things are impossible. Rock, I figured, could help us at least understand the current conditions impacting resort-town decision making.What we talked aboutThe shift to midweek skiing and what it means for Vail and the Epic Pass; Vail’s 2021-22 operational challenges and successes; chasing the military’s camaraderie and sense of purpose until finding it at Bristol; a regional hopscotch leading to Vail; Northstar as Vail’s executive talent incubator; the company’s monster employee-investment initiative announced in March; how Vail decided on a $20-an-hour-minimum wage for next season; beefing up the HR staff and what that means for the future of the HR tool (commonly referred to as Vail’s “HR app”); owning last-year’s employee-support challenges; the company’s new flexible work policy; why Vail Resorts’ ski area social media accounts have seemed more lively over the past several months; why Vail’s 165-bed employee housing project has stalled in East Vail; “people have gotten really good at gumming up the works”; luxury townhomes go unprotested but suddenly everyone is very concerned about bighorn sheep when it comes time to build affordable housing; the potential of the Ever Vail parcel and if there is a better way to build; updates on employee housing developments in Park City, Whistler, and Okemo; Vail’s $300 million-plus 2022 lift investment and what that portends for the future; “I don’t know if we can find 21 lifts to do every year”; thoughts on why Vail hasn’t sold a lift in several years; the current status of the Bergman Bowl expansion at Keystone; thoughts on new lifts going in at Vail and Park City; “in a town that has over 70 lifts, to do two replacement lifts should really not be controversial at all.”Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewLast month, I wrote a long piece about a dispute between the Town of Vail and Vail Resorts:Unfortunately, we have entered an era in which absolutism reigns. As the ski industry housing crisis accelerates to levels that are endangering the viability of lift-served skiing as a sustainable enterprise, the town of Vail last week activated the nuclear option to block Vail Resorts’ long-planned affordable housing project near Vail Mountain. Per Jason Blevins in The Colorado Sun:The Vail town council late Tuesday voted to condemn a parcel where Vail Resorts plans to spend $17 million to build affordable housing for 165 workers. Dozens of Vail Resorts executives, employees and managers crammed into the council’s chambers Tuesday night as the council heard passionate support for both housing and wildlife. Ultimately the council voted 4-3 to approve a resolution that gives the town the ability to seize ownership of the 23-acre parcel and prevent any development as a way to protect a bighorn herd that winters in the south-facing aspen groves along Interstate 70.“I’m disappointed you’ve been backed into a corner and have to consider this resolution tonight,” said Terry Meyers, the executive director of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society. “Please make the decision to protect the bighorn sheep herd and move forward to find other options for affordable housing in the Vail Valley. The sheep have to have this. They can’t go anywhere else.”Exactly which corner the council members have been backed into is unclear: this same council (made up of different representatives), approved this project in 2019, and helped defend it in court in 2020. Vail, which owns the land, has promised to develop just six of the 23 acres. To protect the herd on the remaining land, Vail Resorts “partnered with wildlife experts and Colorado Park & Wildlife to develop an extensive mitigation plan, including funding for long overdue habitat rehabilitation,” and has earmarked $100,000 to implement that plan, a company representative told me. The project underwent “an extremely thorough environmental review process,” the representative added.Meanwhile, more than 100 luxury homes already fill 95.6 acres of this supposedly sacred bighorn habitat. Vail’s proposed development is the three tiny yellow boxes labelled “East Vail Affordable Housing” in the image below:“Vail needs housing now – not development that might happen in five years,” read a statement supplied by Vail Resorts to The Storm Skiing Journal on April 25. “If the Town can support luxury homes in East Vail, then it can support affordable housing. We will continue to aggressively pursue this affordable housing project for the hard-working employees in our community.” …The suggestion that a herd of sheep that has managed to negotiate nearly 100 acres of mansionland developed amidst their territory over the past several decades would suddenly be thrust to the brink of extinction from the addition of six acres of dense housing hard by the roadside is absurd. This whole action by the town feels disingenuous and petty, a because-we-can temper tantrum rooted in the vaguely expressed notion that Vail Resorts has been a disrespectful negotiator.While the town has not yet seized ownership of the land, the strident act by four precious council members all but assures that the legal fistfights will howl on for years. The brazen seizure of private land could ignite a fire that burns all the way to the Supreme Court, an absurd act of overreach that could wind up damaging future environmental efforts by stoking the business-friendly court majority to streamline development approvals. And in the meantime? Opponents of the plan continue to peddle platitudes about the importance of affordable housing.You can read the full thing here:Meanwhile, four people who apparently have nothing better to do have been stalling Vail’s planned Park City lift upgrades. Per the Park Record:The PCMR project would replace the current Eagle and Eaglet lifts with a high-speed, six-person detachable lift. The resort also wants to upgrade Silverlode Express from a six-person to an eight-person, high-speed lift, which would make it parent company Vail Resorts’ first chair of its kind in North America.The people who filed the appeal, Clive Bush, Angela Moschetta, Deborah Rentfrow and Mark Stemler, argued the proposal should’ve been exempt from receiving a staff-level administrative conditional-use permit because the upgrades would exceed PCMR’s comfortable carrying capacity (CCC) and should be voted on by the Planning Commission instead. They also argued the application should not have been approved due to inadequate parking mitigation or conditions of approval for peak ski days.A staff report from the Park City Planning Department recommended denying the appeal because a section of a 1998 development agreement with PCMR, which outlines growth at the resort base, states, “development of the skiing and related facilities as identified in the mountain upgrade plan is a conditional use within the city limits and is a subject to administrative review” as long as the projects are identified in and compliant with the mountain upgrade plan. Planning Department staff said the agreement requires lift upgrades to be reviewed administratively if six criteria are met, which they say are.However, the appeal claims criteria one and six – which call for consistency with the mountain upgrade plan and a sufficient parking plan – are not met. The group also made 11 arguments in the filing to support their appeal.On Wednesday, much of the discussion was centered on whether upgrading the lifts would increase visitorship and surpass the resort’s comfortable carrying capacity. Mike Goar, who until recently was the chief operating officer at PCMR and remains at Vail Resorts, said the improvements will help reduce crowding by moving people up the mountain faster and that lift upgrades don’t lead to more skiers and snowboarders.The maximum carrying capacity is 13,700 and PCMR’s current comfortable carrying capacity is 12,570. The proposed upgrades would increase the comfortable carrying capacity to 12,860 and would not cause a significant increase in parking demand, according to a staff report.But Moschetta argued that “fuzzy math” caused the numbers to be manipulated. She presented a series of comfortable carrying capacity numbers that differed from the findings of outside consultants hired by the resort and argued the upgrades will increase the figure to 13,980.“The miscalculated and already exceeded CCCs confirm absolutely that this application violated the [mountain upgrade plan], and therefore the [development agreement], and therefore violated the [Land Management Code], and therefore never met conditions for administrative review,” she said. “On this basis alone, our appeal must be upheld and the decision of the planning director overturned.”Her argument was compelling to most of the commissioners, who asked PCMR and its consultants to explain the discrepancies. Planning Commission Chair John Phillips said he trusted the specialists and supported denying the appeal while Planning Commissioners Sarah Hall and Bill Johnson indicated they would side with Phillips if the comfortable carrying capacity discrepancy was clearly explained.“The appellants have the burden of proof and they’ve not presented experts, facts. We have. Two experts on CCC, and mountain planning. We’ve worked through this in great detail. Lastly, the planning director’s decision should be upheld on appeal if it is supported by substantial evidence on the record, which is what we presented originally,” Goar said.After repeated back and forth, and several unsuccessful attempts from the resort’s experts to clarify the numbers, the majority of commissioners were not satisfied.More than four hours in, the commission adjourned, to meet again on Wednesday, June 15, as Rock and I discuss in the podcast.What, really, is the point of all this? Must we fight about everything? Housing? Chairlifts? Not even new chairlifts. Upgrades. Four more seats on a mountain with 41 lifts. Do larger lifts draw more skiers? Maybe at Jiminy Peak or Ragged Mountain, where a six-seater really is a regional curiosity. But this is Park City. Most tourists don’t even know what kinds of lifts the mountain has while they’re riding them. Chairlift tourism is not really a thing.I suspect the appellants know this. Multiple sources throughout the West described a prevailing atmosphere of frustration with Vail Resorts throughout this past season. Staff shortages led to inadequate or inconsistent grooming and terrain and lift openings, skiers at multiple resorts said. Many Park City residents are apoplectic over the coming paid parking plan. There seems to be an element of spite, then, in the actions both of the Park City foursome and the Vail Town Council.I can’t decide if they are bringing a knife to a tank fight, or a tank to a knife fight. In both cases, the non-Vail parties are both overmatched and over-armed. It’s like they assembled an army to invade an apple orchard. One that’s defended by a fire-breathing dragon. Like, you can just get apples at the grocery store.If this all seems like an enormous waste of time, money, and energy, it’s because it is. The hostile parties may well halt both projects. But to what end? What better ideas do they have? And what happens when, in some not-so-hard-to-imagine future, this insistence on saying no to everything yields to new sets of rules – driven by frustrated middle-voters who put rampant Free Market Bros in charge of the world – in which we can’t say no to anything?Questions I wish I’d askedFrankly, I would have liked to have had a completely different conversation. The Storm is, first and primarily, about the skiing. Rock oversees a half dozen of the best ski resorts in America. I would have liked to have talked deeply and only about the resorts.But the moment demanded a different sort of conversation. Part of this is the NIMBY-mania I referenced above. Part of it was because Vail kind of blew it last year in multiple markets and had to roll out a big oopsie plan to draw more employees for next season.But even with the focus mostly on that plan and those people, we still ran long. I didn’t have time to get to questions about Vail’s diversity initiatives, or the fact that an incredible five of Rock’s six resorts are run by women. I also didn’t get to the Breckenridge lift upgrades.What I got wrongI made the comment to Rock that it had been years since Vail had sold or repurposed a lift. While Vail has indeed not sold a lift to an out-of-network ski area in years, the second part was flat wrong. And I knew this. Here’s an Instagram post I published six months ago after riding and extensively documenting Okemo’s former Quantum 4 in its new location replacing the mountain’s summit triple:I regret the error.This podcast hit paid subscribers’ inboxes on June 14. Free subscribers got it on June 17. To receive future pods as soon as they’re live, please consider an upgrade.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 65/100 in 2022, and number 311 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane). You can also email skiing@substack.com. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Podcast del Stream publicado el día 10/01/22 Seguimos de tóxicos con los set ups de los spartanos, y también opinamos de las noticias más relevantes en el bajo mundo del hardware, respondiendo las preguntas y dudas más comunes de la PCMR!! Para cualquier pedido, que arme tu PC Gamer, tu Estación de Trabajo o componentes para armar tu PC por tu cuenta no duden en contactarme por este correo: pedidos@spartangeek.com

Podcast del Stream publicado el día 10/01/22 Seguimos de tóxicos con los set ups de los spartanos, y también opinamos de las noticias más relevantes en el bajo mundo del hardware, respondiendo las preguntas y dudas más comunes de la PCMR!! Para cualquier pedido, que arme tu PC Gamer, tu Estación de Trabajo o componentes para armar tu PC por tu cuenta no duden en contactarme por este correo: pedidos@spartangeek.com

W tym odcinku wyjątkowo postaraliśmy się poruszyć temat ogólny - jak zacząć grać w gry? Nie wiemy, czy w ogóle istnieje ktoś kto nie gra w żadne gry, boi się i nie wie jak zacząć, ale... postanowiliśmy zagospodarować tę niszę ;) Miłego słuchania, polećcie odcinek komuś kto jeszcze nigdy w nic nie grał i nie wie jak zacząć xD Zapraszamy na Discorda Podcastu Giereczkowego, Discorda Weterani Gier Wideo oraz Discorda GraczWatch.  Nasze Twitterki: ToyBlackHat i MikeMob Kanał muzyczny na Youtube (jam sessions, muzyka ogólnie elektroniczna) - ToyBlackHat 

Let's be honest, no one console is better than the others. Gaming can be fun anywhere. But gaming on a PC is reaching true enlightenment! Ever wanted to start gaming on PC but have no idea where to start? As always, One More Game! has you covered. Join theStroke and Swiftmida as they break down this week's gaming news, reviews, commentary, and everything you need to know to build and game on a brand new gaming machine! Glad to have you here, let's go!

Graliśmy w Dying Light 2: Stay Human - szczegółowo omawiamy nasze doświadczenie z grą. Tym razem nie ma za wiele hejtu, ale za to są dygresje (Satisfactory, Elden Ring). Zapraszamy serdecznie ;)Zapraszamy na Discorda Podcastu Giereczkowego, Discorda Weterani Gier Wideo oraz Discorda GraczWatch.  Nasze Twitterki: ToyBlackHat i MikeMob Kanał muzyczny na Youtube (jam sessions, muzyka ogólnie elektroniczna) - ToyBlackHat

Long time friend of the crew, Evan makes his first podcast appearance as he takes on the monumental task of discussing Soulslikes with them! Clayton thinks Gannon is a hypocrite, Evan has a penchant for passionate stories in From Software's worlds, and Brodie is more material than we might have thought now that he is part of the PCMR! Come check out other content: superokpodcast.com

Podcast del Stream publicado el día 2/08/21 Seguimos de tóxicos con los set ups de los spartanos, y también opinamos de las noticias más relevantes en el bajo mundo del hardware, respondiendo las preguntas y dudas más comunes de la PCMR!! Para cualquier pedido, que arme tu PC Gamer, tu Estación de Trabajo o componentes para armar tu PC por tu cuenta no duden en contactarme por este correo: pedidos@spartangeek.com

Podcast del Stream publicado el día 2/08/21 Seguimos de tóxicos con los set ups de los spartanos, y también opinamos de las noticias más relevantes en el bajo mundo del hardware, respondiendo las preguntas y dudas más comunes de la PCMR!! Para cualquier pedido, que arme tu PC Gamer, tu Estación de Trabajo o componentes para armar tu PC por tu cuenta no duden en contactarme por este correo: pedidos@spartangeek.com

Podcast del Stream publicado el día 26/07/21 Seguimos de tóxicos con los set ups de los spartanos, y también opinamos de las noticias más relevantes en el bajo mundo del hardware, responiendo las preguntas y dudas más comunes de la PCMR!! Para cualquier pedido, que arme tu PC Gamer, tu Estación de Trabajo o componentes para armar tu PC por tu cuenta no duden en contactarme por este correo: pedidos@spartangeek.com

"My PC is watercooled so it gets better FPS I promise." What other lies have the Jedi told me? Intro - 00:00:17 Community Events - 00:01:40 Games we've played - 00:05:10 Main Topic - 00:12:25 Contact us here: Patreon Website Twitter Email Discord Music used: Intro: Almost Evil (Cyberpunk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeAK6P7Gl7w https://inaudio.org/track/almost-evil/ Outro: ＦＯＲＣＥ　ＧＨＯＳＴＥＤ　ヲちご Ｓｔａｒ　Ｗａｒｓ　"Ｆｏｒｃｅ　Ｔｈｅｍｅ"　Ｒｅｍｉｘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanlzXvpHDc https://soundcloud.com/f-u-s-i-o-n-4-2

W tym odcinku porozmawialiśmy z jednym z liderów społeczności Weterani Gier Wideo o graniu w poważnym wieku. RashbaNor opowiada o kulisach powstania społeczności, plusach i minusach grania jako dojrzały gracz, oraz odpowiedzi branży gier na starzenie się bazy graczy. Jako bonus krzyczymy na chmury i narzekamy na młodzież :)Zapraszamy na Discorda Podcastu Giereczkowego, Discorda Weterani Gier Wideo oraz Discorda GraczWatch.  Tło dźwiękowe: oczywiście Wasz kochany ToyBlackHat xD

Adam and Josh talk once again about the toxicity in gaming. Brand loyalty, PCMR, Mobile games, treatment of devs, and more is covered in this weeks episode! 

4 PCMR's Kan kalanga veikum paridhaba nilai. PCMR galin vazhkai nadagamaa?

Pedro is the founder of PC Master Race, one of the most popular PC communities around the world. Pedro comes on the show today to talk about the beginning of PCMR, how he gained popularity, as well as his little secret about PC building.

As always Mudinchuu....

Comedian Robert Kelly and Rob Sprance stop by! Plus Monster Hunter: Rise Demo, Bloodborne, Pokerstars VR, MS Flight Simulator VR, Arizona Sunshine, Real Fishing, HP Reverb G2 vs Oculus Rift, BigscreenVR, RecRoom, PCMR, Among Us, Phasmophobia, Elite Dangerous, new Indiana Jones game from Bethesda, Switch Pro with DLSS, and more!

On today's Local News Hour : ( 00:34) Summit County Manager Tom Fisher discusses the agenda for Wednesday's county council meeting. ( 19:40) HKS Archtects Emir Tursic & Tommy Zakrzewski talk about the architectural changes and sustainability details of the PCMR base project ( 36:13) Cheryl Fox - Director of Summit Land Conservancy with this months open space issues update.

Join me as I discuss with Dr. Lipshultz the formation of the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry (PCMR). We will walk through how he came up with the idea, the challenges he faced along the way and also how the PCMR has revolutionized the care for children with cardiomyopathies. Please visit the websites for: Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation : https://www.childrenscardiomyopathy.org/pages/childrens-cardiomyopathy-foundation/ The Kyle John Rymiszewski FOundation : http://www.kylejohnrymiszewskifoundation.org/ Hope you enjoy the episode and join me for the next one. Until then- Namaste!

Drop iN Podcast Tworzony przez Graczy dla Graczy, a dziś Kenet, Badyl, GooJunPyo, Gragi oraz Rogaty opowiedzą Wam o Call of the Sea oraz NieR: Automata prosto z Piekła, o Drewnianym kupowaniu gier na PSP, Trochę jak po chińsku o Age of Calamity, Trybie GraNia GraGiego i wyjeździe Keneta. W kolejnej sekcji rozprawiane będzie o następujących rzeczach: 00:19:40 Kobiety grają i łatwe gry 00:27:17 Cyberek się SPRZEDAŁ 00:41:55 CP2077 coś śmierdział 00:56:24 Pozewik i Refoundziki 01:02:55 Nasze wrażenia i ułatwienia 01:17:05 Zła wersja gry i od nowa01:29:02 Jazda autem i gupie AI 01:36:50 Wszczepy i żyjący świat 01:53:53 PCMR, trudność i balans 02:05:36 TGA i gra roku 02:09:40 Najlepsze Trailery i Vin Diesel 02:20:01 Fajna ta Gala? Problemy so? 02:30:22 Gejmingowe Kalambury! #Cyberpunk2020 #CDProjektRed #TheGameAwards2020Nasz Discord: https://discord.gg/WbspfW5Kanał na YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/GraczWatchJeśli chcecie, możecie nas wesprzeć tutaj: https://streamlabs.com/graczwatch/tip#Wpadnijcie też na naszą stronkę z newsami, podcastami i filmikami! geekgamer.pl

Enter for your chance to win a RTX 3080 at https://BuildRedux.com Edit PDF with #PDFelement: https://lmg.gg/PDFelement Get $5 sent to your Venmo account at https://JoinHoney.com/Linus Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of Michael O'Brien): 00:00:00 - Stream Start! 00:00:08 - And welcome to the WAN Show ladies and gentlemen 00:00:21 - Topic #2: Danish retailer on RTX 3000 supply (Jump to 00:32:50) 00:00:47 - Topic #3: Alleged RX 6800 benchmarks (Jump to 00:49:01) 00:00:53 - Topic #1: Tweets on the streaming industry (Jump to 00:03:25) 00:01:11 - Topic #4: Intel sold NAND business unit (Jump to 00:51:41) 00:01:42 - [Tepid] Intro 00:02:12 - Unofficial Topic #1: People Giving Linus Crap 00:03:29 - Topic #1: [Alex Hutchinson] @BangBangClick's Twitter Comments 00:04:07 - The meat of the topic 00:05:05 - Linus back with the meme moments... 00:05:06 - Luke's take 00:09:14 - Linus' take 00:12:43 - Streaming isn't the complete context 00:15:15 - How the Industry reacted 00:17:09 - But the EULA... 00:18:30 - Let's not forget about Fair Use w/ anecdote 00:23:10 - It is not cut and dry 00:25:50 - Summary of argument 00:26:45 - And L&L's assessment of Alex Hutchinson's tweet? 00:28:53 - Sponsors! 00:28:57 - Honey - joinhoney.com/linus 00:30:22 - Wondershare PDFelement - 50% off, link in description 00:31:57 - Redux - buildredux.com 00:32:50 - Topic #2: Proshop, Danish retailer fulfillment stats 00:33:08 - RTX 3090 stats 00:34:12 - RTX 3080 stats 00:34:46 - RTX 3070 stats, despite embargo 00:36:53 - Manufacturing bottleneck behind the delay 00:38:17 - Linus' opinion on the topic 00:39:59 - In all seriousness though... 00:43:53 - NCIS Story Time! - Gather 'round the Pentium 4 space heater, kids 00:48:45 - Back to UT #1 :p 00:49:01 - Topic #3: Alleged RX 6800 benchmarks 00:50:20 - Luke's hot take 00:51:41 - Topic #4: Intel sold NAND business unit 00:51:41 - Details of sale & reasoning 00:53:27 - Unofficial Topic #2: Secret Shopper is BACK! 00:54:03 - SI's are: iBuyPower, CyberPower, Dell, HP, Main Gear, and Origin PCs 00:58:10 - 2nd stealth giveaway details... 00:59:13 - New floatplane.com entries, Lon.TV & Craft Computing 00:59:34 - Craft Computing shot out (someone else want to tell me what the other is?) 01:00:14 - Unofficial Topic #3: Loot Box Lawsuits 01:00:31 - The thoughts on the topic 01:02:39 - Uofficial Topic #4: McBroken 01:04:35 - Superchats! 01:04:58 - Linus can't adopt you 01:05:31 - DMCA & Copyright Policy 01:11:10 - LMG is hiring - linusmediagroup.com/jobs-1 01:12:56 - Bye! 01:12:59 - Outtro!

Keep your feet dry and get $25 off each pair at Vessi with offer code WANSHOW at https://www.vessi.com/wanshow Honey automatically applies the best coupon codes to save you money at different online checkouts, try it now at https://www.joinhoney.com/linus Upgrade your stream with overlays from Nerd or Die: https://lmg.gg/nerdordie Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-o... Podcast Download: TBD Timestamps (Courtesy of Michael O'Brien): 00:00:00 - Stream Start! 00:00:05 - What is up ladies and gentlemen 00:00:13 - Topic #1: Ryzen 5800X Benchmark Leak (Jump to 00:01:54) 00:00:20 - Topic #2: Pixel 4, 4a 5G, Chromecast, Nest Audio speaker (Jump to 00:14:05) 00:00:31 - Topic #4: Linus' Bounty Program (Jump to 00:53:18) 00:01:00 - Topic #3: Microsoft & Arm (Jump to 00:47:43) (Titled topic) 00:01:10 - Intro's Broken! 00:01:54 - Topic #1: Ryzen 5800X Benchmark Leak 00:02:16 - AMD's branding vs Intel's Branding 00:04:28 - Resyncing Mobile & Desktop nomenclature 00:05:09 - Benchmarks are gone, but here is chart 00:06:35 - R9 5900X @ 150 W TDP, ~15% increase 00:09:28 - Linus' take, involving tin foil and fish 00:12:31 - Discussion about leaks & espionage 00:13:35 - lttstore.com sweater update 00:14:05 - Topic #2: Pixel 4, 4a 5G, Chromecast, Nest Audio Speaker 00:14:19 - Snapdragon 765G SoC downgrade 00:15:31 - Would Luke buy it? 00:17:39 - Additional Pixel 5G specs & Linus' concerns 00:19:21 - How could you provide long-term device support? 00:22:44 - $5 text vs "not a good idea" - Fight! 00:25:45 - End result of costs vs free 00:27:38 - SoC cost vs phone MSRP 00:28:54 - But Luke, really? 00:31:35 - Nest Audio & Chrome Cast TV w/ Google TV 00:32:53 - Google's development process & support 00:36:05 - Google Play Music -- YouTube Music issues 00:39:25 - G-Suite Reminders, paid vs free 00:40:11 - Sponsors! 00:40:15 - Honey - joinhoney.com/linus 00:40:55 - Nerd of Die - lmg.gg/nerdordie 00:41:32 - Vessi Footwear - Code WANSHOW - vessi.com/wanshow 00:42:11 - Unofficial Topic #1: RTX 3070 Launch Delay 00:42:28 - Altruism? 00:44:49 - But that Radeon event... 00:45:29 - Correct move regardless? 00:47:43 - Topic #3a: Microsoft's Surface Laptop Go & Surface Pro X 00:47:49 - Laptop Go specs 00:48:10 - Surface Pro X specs 00:48:27 - Topic #3b: Windows on Arm (Titled topic) 00:48:47 - 64-bit x86 emulation support 00:50:21 - Linus' take 00:53:18 - Topic #4: Bounty Time! 00:54:02 - HIS X1600 Pro Dual DVI w/ AGP & PCIe WORKING 00:55:39 - Superchats! 00:57:14 - Tell people you love them and how much they mean to you 00:59:45 - Small runs with Creative Warehouse 01:02:09 - Phone performance usefulness 01:03:58 - Shuffle on the YouTube Music app 01:05:13 - EK is now an SI (System Integrator) 01:06:20 - Same Bad time, same bad channel. G'bye! 01:06:25 - Outro!

Save 10% at Ridge Wallet with offer code LINUS at https://www.ridge.com/Linus Keep your feet dry and get $25 off each pair at Vessi with offer code WANSHOW at https://www.vessi.com/wanshow Check out the SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless: https://steelseries.com/gaming-mice/rival-3-wireless?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=review&utm_campaign=linustechtips Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of Michael O'Brien): 00:00:00 - Stream Start! 00:00:03 - Don't refresh the live page! 00:00:11 - Welcome to the WAN Show! 00:00:22 - Topic #1: NVIDIA's Bonched Launch (Jump to 00:07:57) 00:00:52 - Topic #2: Microsoft Buys ZeniMax (Jump to 01:03:04) 00:01:28 - Note #1: Big NAVI to RTX 3080? (Jump to 01:25:54) 00:01:41 - Note #2: Spotify, Tile, ProtonMail, and Basecamp v Apple (Jump to 01:26:02) 00:02:07 - Intro 00:02:58 - Unofficial Topic #1: World's Hottest LAN Party 00:03:54 - Problems with running @ TjMax 00:05:44 - How is might work 00:07:57 - Topic #1: NVIDIA's Bonched Launch 00:08:18 - Stock availability, no fancy packaging, et al. 00:09:53 - That one time Linus ordered OEM packaging 00:12:49 - Does NewEgg still do pre-builds? 00:13:35 - Warehouse anecdote 00:15:11 - LMG's company philosophy (It's and "OT" topic) 00:18:18 - Unofficial Topic #2: Story Time with Luke & Linus 00:18:18 - Luke's & Linus' complimentary anecdote 00:20:47 - Until you're a boss... 00:24:01 - Luke's wising up with age 00:26:09 - Linus was a bully? 00:27:44 - Was Luke ever a bully? 00:29:44 - Back on Topic #1, take 1 00:29:50 - NVIDIA's store's website leaking personal info 00:30:01 - AIB cards crashing 00:31:51 - Anthony. On the WAN Show. Why hasn't this officially happened? 00:34:04 - AIB's selling slower cards on purpose 00:34:44 - Unofficial Topic #3: No, Anthony was not driving 00:35:05 - CEOs on interpersonal relationships 00:36:47 - Why CEO's have to be careful 00:38:52 - Luke hasn't met new staff 00:39:20 - Back on Topic #1, take 2 00:40:16 - Why Linus & Anthony didn't comment on 3090 pricing 00:41:55 - "Marketed a workstation card to gamers" 00:43:38 - The type that buys an RTX-3090-class card 00:50:04 - 8K Gaming = 1st gen RTX? 00:51:57 - Does it matter? Would you buy it? 00:53:43 - What would Luke do? 00:55:36 - Review the $30K TV? 00:58:20 - Which GPU would Linus buy? 01:01:00 - Sponsors! 01:01:15 - Ridge Wallet - Save 10% - Offer Code Linus @ Ridge.com/linus 01:01:46 - SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless link in the description 01:02:26 - Vesi Footwear - $25 off ea. pair - Offer Code WANSHOW @ vessi.com/wanshow 01:03:04 - Topic #2: Microsoft Buys ZeniMax 01:03:14 - "7.5 BILLION...actually a gargantuan number" 01:05:55 - Exclusives vs Independent Developers 01:07:28 - Nintendo = $11B cash on hand + Nintendo Land 01:09:02 - Unofficial Topic #4: More Story Time w/ Linus & Luke 01:10:53 - Back on Topic #2 01:11:25 - What could happen with Gaming in the future as a result? 01:13:26 - Dreamhaven - Quality - $$$ 01:16:16 - What should they plan to not do... 01:17:28 - CD Projekt Red? 01:19:00 - Is this the "Netflix" model for Microsoft? 01:20:50 - Xbox naming convention rant 01:25:54 - Note #1: Big NAVI to RTX 3080? 01:26:02 - Note #2: Spotify, Tile, ProtonMail, and Basecamp v Apple 01:27:12 - lttstore.com new merch item 01:27:28 - Look at this guy with this beard! (I think Linus might keep his) 01:27:41 - Sweater models! *Note 9 not included 01:28:20 - Buy 2 01:29:36 - Branding is intentionally subtle 01:32:17 - Super-Trash-Chats! (My wording) 01:32:23 - WAN Show VOD on Floatplane 01:34:17 - Work effort @ minimum wage jobs 01:38:17 - Show's Over! Goodbye! 01:38:24 - Outro!

On today's Local News Hour: ( 08:10) South Summit School District Superintendent Shad Sorenson and new High School Principal Chris Jenson have an update on how the school year is progressing and how they handled Homecoming during the pandemic. ( 21:27) Park City Planning Director Bruce Erickson previews Wednesday’s Planning commission agenda, including another look at the parking plan for the development at the base of PCMR and the future of upper Marsac Ave. ( 37:09) Utah Workforce Services Employer Initiatives Program Manager Lance Soffe has details about Thursday’s virtual job fair and the state of unemployment in Utah.

Learn more about the MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK Motherboard on Amazon at https://geni.us/sxc6m or Newegg at https://geni.us/fudnna Get a 15-day free trial for unlimited backup at https://backblaze.com/WAN Honey automatically applies the best coupon codes to save you money at different online checkouts, try it now at https://www.joinhoney.com/linus Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps: (Courtesy of Michael O'Brien) 00:00:00 - Stream Start! 00:00:04 - Hey, what's up guys!? 00:00:15 - Topic #3: Apple Fall Event (Jump to 00:39:41) 00:00:19 - Topic #2: RTX 3080 & Scalping (Jump to 00:16:15) 00:00:26 - Topic #4: PS5 Pricing Announcement (Jump to 00:51:47) 00:00:55 - Topic #5: TikTok & WeChat Banned ( not covered ) 00:01:04 - Topic #1: NVIDIA Kills SLI (Jump to 00:03:11) 00:01:36 - Intro 00:02:14 - Unofficial Topic #1: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Passing 00:03:11 - Topic #1: NVIDIA Kills SLI 00:03:46 - And that is a kill steal, time of death, cause fo death 00:05:51 - Bummed Linus, but why? 00:07:01 - Compared to NVLink 00:08:34 - What is actually happening 00:10:33 - Games with native support 00:11:33 - Why should this not matter, practically 00:13:51 - Big vs little x 2 00:15:00 - Inte Xe ("ex-ee", not "zee") note 00:16:15 - Topic #2: Scalping w/ RTX 3080 00:16:33 - Hardware Canucks' response 00:17:25 - Linus' Good 'Ole Days as an NCIS Product Manager 00:21:51 - TechTuber's responses & reason 00:24:11 - Community of End User's response 00:27:33 - Manufacturer's expectations over the years 00:29:33 - Reviewer & "Buddy" promotion of new products 00:30:27 - lttstore.com - RGB Keyboard T-Shirts - Limited Edition 00:32:23 - Maybe no LTX 2021 00:34:40 - LTT CPU T-Shirt prize winner update 00:35:48 - Sponsors! 00:35:50 - Honey - joinhoney.com/linus 00:36:57 - Backblaze - backblaze.com/wan 00:37:48 - MSA MAG B550 Tomahawk - Link in description 00:39:41 - Topic #3: Apple Fall Event 00:39:48 - Spec breakdown 00:40:33 - Apple vs Android 00:41:40 - Luke's pondering with Linus 00:44:04 - Tablets vs large phones & UX 00:46:08 - Use case of tablets today 00:47:58 - Apple Watch details + Linus' watch idea 00:50:56 - [Apple] Watch SE 00:51:47 - Topic #4: PS5 Pricing Announcement 00:51:47 - XBox vs PS5, who won? FIGHT! 00:53:03 - Linus BANS Luke 00:53:49 - Sony's Plan vs Microsoft's Plan 00:55:24 - Luke's counter argument 00:57:47 - Console + subscriptions costs 01:01:45 - Linus' take on consoles vs PC gaming 01:04:55 - Linus' thoughts on being a gamer 01:07:24 - Overall thoughts on console market positioning 01:08:39 - Speculation on Nintendo Switch Pro 01:12:03 - Note #1: TikTok & WeChat Banned 01:12:09 - Note #2: NVIDIA's ARM/Arm purchase 01:12:42 - Note #3: lttstore.com is hiring 01:13:55 - 6 positions are open for hiring 01:14:41 - pseudo-hiring for LTT forums 01:17:36 - Superchats! 01:18:45 - RTX 8000 Quadro vs RTX 3080 01:19:02 - LTT Merch = Linus' wardrobe? 01:20:51 - LMG Pizza Party Day! 01:22:07 - PS5 Game prices 01:22:45 - Bye! 01:22:47 - Outro!

Sign up for Private Internet Access VPN at https://lmg.gg/piawa Honey automatically applies the best coupon codes to save you money at different online checkouts, try it now at https://www.joinhoney.com/linus Save 15% today with offer code WAN on Displate at https://lmg.gg/displatewan Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps: (Courtesy of Michael O'Brien) 00:00:00 - Stream Start! 00:00:31 - Hello! 00:00:37 - Topic #1: Nvidia 3000 Series (Jump to 00:02:17) 00:01:03 - Topic #0: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 (*Not covered*) 00:01:12 - Topic #2: Intel Tiger Lake Announcement (Jump to 00:36:41) 00:01:22 - Topic #3: Super Mario Brothers 35th Anniversary (Jump to 00:42:12) 00:01:39 - Intro 00:02:17 - Topic #1: Ampere/RTX 3000 00:02:30 - General feature overview 00:04:49 - RTX 3090 Specs, $1499 00:06:31 - RTX 3080 Specs, $699 00:07:24 - 2000-series vs 3000-series pricing, new & used 00:09:42 - Release date recap 00:10:01 - CUDA core count, new = old 00:11:09 - By Our Powers Combined, lttstore.com 00:12:05 - RTX 3070 Specs, $499 00:16:35 - Release cycle duration vs performance uplift 00:18:14 - Release excitement vs Logic 00:21:22 - DigitalFoundry's benchmark flaw? 00:24:06 - Wait for reviews, then buy, skip the hype 00:26:21 - Riley's hot take 00:28:41 - Luke's conclusive summary 00:29:50 - Hot take on new features 00:32:42 - How many will use them? 00:33:49 - Convert to lttstore.com streaming 00:35:21 - Meme moment 00:36:42 - Topic #2: Intel Tiger Lake 00:37:18 - It's "ex-eee" graphics, not "zee" 00:38:14 - Project Athena product validation, by Intel 00:40:32 - Ambiguity around Intel's launch dates 00:42:12 - Topic #3: Super Mario Bros 35th Anniversary thingy! 00:42:42 - RC car you can drive via your Switch 00:43:18 - Channel Super Fun re-enactment? 00:46:05 - Super Mario 3D All Stars Packet bundle 00:49:24 - Sponsors! 00:49:32 - Nerd or Die - lmg.gg/nerdordie 00:50:21 - Ridge Wallet - Offer code LINUS @ Ridge.com/Linus - 10% off 00:51:11 - MSI Vigor GK50 Elite - Link in the description 00:51:51 - Meme moment 00:51:57 - Unofficial Topic #1: Cats vs Dogs 00:53:36 - Unofficial Topic #2: Battery Free GameBoy 00:54:52 - What is it though? 00:59:15 - Unofficial Topic #3: Floatplane Live on App Store 01:00:42 - Dark Mode Everything 01:01:51 - Unofficial Topic #4: "Cyborg" pig 01:02:53 - FitBit in your skull 01:04:12 - Black Mirror ftw? 01:05:05 - Google's algorithms at work 01:07:12 - Riley's summation of Luke's comparison 01:11:07 - Superchats! 01:11:45 - Inception Nvidia 3000-series question 01:14:50 - Riley's mustache! 01:15:38 - Goodbye! 01:15:42 - Outro!

Bardzo nostalgiczny odcinek, w którym opowiemy o naszej przygodnie z grami właśnie. Jak to się zaczęło i jak to wyglądało na przestrzeni lat. Wyszło trochę " dwóch starych dziadów podcast" ale mamy nadzieje że będzie się dobrze słychać. Zapraszamy na www.giereczkowo.pl Zbiórka dla Mai : https://www.siepomaga.pl/giereczkowo-pl ------- Na naszym YT specjalna wersja odcinka z wizualizacjami tego o czym gadamy :D oraz naszymi gębami. Support the show (https://paypal.me/vaderio?locale.x=pl_PL)

Vitamin G Podcast Episode 75: This week, the panel pays respects to Chadwick Boseman. Wakanda FOREVER! Playstation's PC plans and a lack of gameplay for the Series X are also touched upon. Tempers flare, sides are chosen. All this and more! 

In this episode we talk about games with amazing potential that dropped off the deep end, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, and then dive into what got Jason to start gaming and join the PC Master Race. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Pogadajmy o... PCMR... Obiecany link: https://bit.ly/VWnetNG8 Subskrybuj Versus Web TV, o tutaj: https://bit.ly/VWnetTV

Yo back again talkin' bout vidia gams and shiz. *affixes monocle* In this episodic installment the fine gentlemen of the PCMR podcast discuss the dissolving relationship between critiquing a work of art and consuming said art for entertainment purposes. *secures monocle* Contact us here: Website Patreon Twitter Email Discord Music used: Intro: Kick Puncher - Runner Gunner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHa9jaxypfU https://soundcloud.com/kick-puncher Outro: ＦＯＲＣＥ　ＧＨＯＳＴＥＤ　ヲちご Ｓｔａｒ　Ｗａｒｓ　"Ｆｏｒｃｅ　Ｔｈｅｍｅ"　Ｒｅｍｉｘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanlzXvpHDc https://soundcloud.com/f-u-s-i-o-n-4-2

(07:30) - Summit County Council Member Glenn Wright talks about the RAP Tax authorization that is required every 10 years in order to keep collecting the 1/10 of one percent sales tax for recreation, arts, and parks. (21:05) - Republican candidate for Utah House of Representatives 54th District Mike Kohler talks about why he’s running for office and what he offers to the voters. He is one of two Republican candidates on the June 30 th primary ballot. (35:24) - Park City Planning Director Bruce Erickson and Planner Hannah Tyler preview tomorrow's planning commission agenda, including another look at the PCMR base development, and the future of accessory apartments.

(12:30) Summit County Fire Warden Bryce Boyer with an outlook on the fire season. (20:50) Park City Planning Director Bruce Erickson previews tomorrow's Planning Commission agenda, including another look at the proposed development at the base of PCMR.

Our boy Roger stops by to chat with us about...well, anything and everything that comes to mind. It's a very improv episode this week! Some highlights: Have you seen the backseat-hitting-head-TikTok trend? Are we getting old?! Chazzy tells a story about Karen at the Farmer's Market. Julio's looking to build his first PC, PC Gaming, Overwatch, Hearthstone & more! We got a very Blizzard-full Check That Replay this week, as well as Roger chooses the Cosplay Of The Week! Check That Replay: http://Instagram.com/atomicbatcat Cosplay Of The Week: http://Instagram.com/donatello_cosplay http://instagram.com/likeassassin Follow Us: http://instagram.com/SideProjektPodcast http://instagram.com/igHatesChazzy http://instagram.com/Captain_Juicebox http://instagram.com/Rogerr.17   Check us out on Podchaser!: http://podchaser.com/SideProjektPodcast

Chazzy looks back at the latest episode, touches on a few moments, looks at society; bad people, bad parenting, discusses being a better person. Latest Sony news! PS5 tech + tech demo, and are they faking The Last Of Us 2 reviews? XBOX Gameplay Showcase was lackluster. We talk Assassins Creed, Cyberpunk 2077 and introduce a new segment: “Check That Replay”, & more! Cosplay Of The Week: http://Instagram.com/nerd_alert_cosplay Check That Replay: http://Instagram.com/videogametatts Follow Us: http://instagram.com/SideProjektPodcast http://instagram.com/igHatesChazzy http://instagram.com/Captain_Juicebox Check us out on Podchaser!: http://podchaser.com/SideProjektPodcast

As a card carrying member of the PCMR, I still think consoles have their place, and will continue to dominate the market for the foreseeable future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whinechamber/message

This week a little bit of love from the PCMR universe as MarkyMark joins the podcast.  We also have a professional gamer in the studio.  Who is it?  Tune in to find out!!!!Hey everyone we uploaded some new shirts, mugs and mouse pads to the store.  Check them out and hit up the store to support your favorite Potatoeshttps://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/PotatoThumbsPodcast/Thanks for showing up and checking out the show this week guys and gals.  Stay safe out there!

When you've had a stressful week and just want to laugh and unwind! Well join us this week as we talk about some upcoming games like amazon's New World and see if there is anything we are interested in coming out this year! Also we try something different and play PCMR Trivia at the end of the episode! Can you guess who took away the win this week? Thanks for listening to the show and if you like it please spread the word to friends that might also enjoy it! Contact us here: Website Patreon Twitter Email Discord Music used: Intro: Kick Puncher - Runner Gunner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHa9jaxypfU https://soundcloud.com/kick-puncher Outro: ＦＯＲＣＥ　ＧＨＯＳＴＥＤ　ヲちご Ｓｔａｒ　Ｗａｒｓ　"Ｆｏｒｃｅ　Ｔｈｅｍｅ"　Ｒｅｍｉｘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanlzXvpHDc https://soundcloud.com/f-u-s-i-o-n-4-2

Jurassic World logic, hot vs cold sandwiches, PCMR is done, cars are problems, Xray Joe goes down South, when you know youre too old for video games and wrestling! 

Happy New Year everyone! Rounding out the year with a little discussion on Best in Gaming, Movies & Shows, New Year's Resolutions are pointless, dumb people in the world & more! With appearances by friend of show Roger Castillo. Cosplay Of The Week: http://instagram.com/nashvilleknight Follow Us: http://instagram.com/SideProjektPodcast http://instagram.com/igHatesChazzy http://instagram.com/G_Escobar_90 To watch video content, visit Side Projekt Podcast on Youtube.

Dzisiejsze tematy: - Chiny wprowadzają regulacje wśród graczy https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/business/china-video-game-ban-young.html - Wzrost znaczenia rynku gier PC Grupa Rock i Borys na FB - https://www.facebook.com/groups/805231679816756/ Słuchaj nas na Lectonie: https://lectonapp.com/p/rckbrs Słuchaj nas na Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2WxzUqj Słuchaj nas na iTunes: https://apple.co/2Jz7MPS Program LIVE w niedzielę od 18:00 do 21:00 - https://jarock.pl/live/rock Rock i Borys to program o grach, technologii i życiu

Episode 25 is here! SQGC celebrates the storied history of the World of Warcraft and its importance to us and the world of video games. Come hear what we think of this remarkable game and its most recent expansion, Battle for Azeroth. Join us next month in October as we take on the new iteration of couch classic, Super Mario Party for the Nintendo Switch! ------------- Audio Credits: Rolemusic - Bacterial Love RoccoW - Lady Bad Luck VRC6

You see Episode 24 of the Side Quest Games Club Podcast has been published. Thinking of all the listeners who played the game this month and hung out in discord... fills you with DETERMINATION! We hope you enjoy this month's episode!  Join us in September as we tackle current and recent content in World of Warcraft as well as talk about the game's evolution over its more than decade of existence and its significance to gaming and us. ------------- Audio Credits: Rolemusic - Bacterial Love RoccoW - Lady Bad Luck VRC6

Out from the forests of the Pacific Northwest a Panda emerges.  This week our good buddy and returning guest Snatching Panda joins the show.  We talk about Scotch, Maui and The Warmind DLC.   You can find our friendly Panda in a few places.   He is a member of the DRP Fam admin team.  He is in their discord, DeathRX and a few others. He is part of the PCMR and Xbox family. As well find him on Twitter @SnatchingPanda  Potato Thumbs Podcast is AdmiralNips and FluffyFingersMD @PotatoThumbs on Twitter PotatoThumbsPodcast@Gmail.com

I'm SORRY for not uploading this video, I completely forgot last Thursday!!!In this week's episode we talk about RGB spreading to SSD's, a new gaming PC case with built in water cooling, and all of the other tech and PC gaming news for the week!

I'm SORRY for not uploading this video, I completely forgot last Thursday!!!In this week's episode we talk about RGB spreading to SSD's, a new gaming PC case with built in water cooling, and all of the other tech and PC gaming news for the week!

In this week's episode we go over all the important tech and PC gaming news from the week which includes the iPhone battery drama, how you can get SteamWorld Heist for free, and much more!YLands Giveaway Video: https://youtu.be/FMyLtspBRuwAmazon Shopping (Supports Me!): http://amzn.to/2g2vgz1

In this week's episode we go over all the important tech and PC gaming news from the week which includes the iPhone battery drama, how you can get SteamWorld Heist for free, and much more!YLands Giveaway Video: https://youtu.be/FMyLtspBRuwAmazon Shopping (Supports Me!): http://amzn.to/2g2vgz1

Jack, Matt, Greg, and Dan come together to talk about the good and bad of Bungie's newest game, Destiny 2. Grab a beer and join us. Eyes up, guardian!   Come back in December for when we talk about Mario's newest adventure in Super Mario Odyssey!   ------------------------ Audio Credits: Bacterial Love - Rolemusic Lady Bad Luck VRC6 - RoccoW

Games Club is back! SQGC is here with our most recent game selection, Braid! Take careful note that all episodes may contain heavy spoilers for the game being discussed. We're headed to a monthly release schedule to allow additional time for more substantial games. Our selection for October is Rise of the Tomb Raider. Pick up a copy and join us again on October 30th when we release Episode 14!   ------------------------ Come chat, watch, and play with us! Now on discord, twitter, and streaming on Twitch! Discord: SideQuest.Show Twitter: @SideQuest_Games Twitch: twitch.tv/SideQuestGamesClub  ------------------------ Audio Credits: Bacterial Love - Rolemusic Lady Bad Luck VRC6 - RoccoW

Cette semaine, Guillaume quitte la paysannerie.

  SQGC is back! Dan, Matt, and Jack talk Campo Santo's Firewatch in this episode. Hear about the choices they made and what struck them about this story rich, critically acclaimed game. ------------------------------------------ The Side Quest Games Club podcast is based on a simple concept. The group picks a video game, plays it, then gets together to talk about it. Think "book club for games"! Let us know what you thought about the show! You can tweet us @SideQuest_Games or join us in discord by heading to http://SideQuest.Show.  ------------------------ Audio Credits: Bacterial Love - Rolemusic Lady Bad Luck VRC6 - RoccoW

The Side Quest Games Club podcast is based on a simple concept. The group picks a video game, plays it, then gets together to talk about it. Think "book club for games"! Spoiler alert on all content related to the game being discussed in this episode! We'll play anything from mobile games, console games (everything from NES, SNES, N64, PSX, PS2 to modern consoles like Switch, XONE, PS4 are on the table!), PC games, MMORPGs, FPS, MOBAs, RPGs, action, adventure, tactical, RTS, you name it. We'd love for you to come be a part of selecting the game for our next episode! Join us in discord or on twitter to discuss and help us choose our next game! http://sidequest.show @SideQuest_Games ------------------------ Dan is back with Jack to just keep talking this episode, because this time they're back to discuss "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes!" Join in and listen as we diffuse a bomb! Let us know what you thought about the show! You can tweet us @SideQuest_Games or join us in discord by heading to http://SideQuest.Show.  ------------------------ Audio Credits: Bacterial Love - Rolemusic Lady Bad Luck VRC6 - RoccoW

The Side Quest Games Club podcast is based on a simple concept. The group picks a video game, plays it, then gets together to talk about it. Think "book club for games"! Spoiler alert on all content related to the game being discussed in this episode! We'll play anything from mobile games, console games (everything from NES, SNES, N64, PSX, PS2 to modern consoles like Switch, XONE, PS4 are on the table!), PC games, MMORPGs, FPS, MOBAs, RPGs, action, adventure, tactical, RTS, you name it. We'd love for you to come be a part of selecting the game for our next episode! Join us in discord or on twitter to discuss and help us choose our next game! http://sidequest.show @SideQuest_Games ------------------------ Brad pays his inaugural visit to the SQGC podcast by joining Jack to correct him on his pronunciation of beers and to talk about Papers, Please!  Let us know what you thought about the show! You can tweet us @SideQuest_Games or join us in discord by heading to http://SideQuest.Show.  ------------------------ Audio Credits: Bacterial Love - Rolemusic Lady Bad Luck VRC6 - RoccoW

The Side Quest Games Club podcast is based on a simple concept. The group picks a video game, plays it, then gets together to talk about it. Think "book club for games"! Spoiler alert on all content related to the game being discussed in this episode! We'll play anything from mobile games, console games (everything from NES, SNES, N64, PSX, PS2 to modern consoles like Switch, XONE, PS4 are on the table!), PC games, MMORPGs, FPS, MOBAs, RPGs, action, adventure, tactical, RTS, you name it. We'd love for you to come be a part of selecting the game for our next episode! Join us in discord or on twitter to discuss and help us choose our next game! http://sidequest.show @SideQuest_Games ------------------------ Matt and Jack sit down to discuss the highly regarded Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Jack played on the Nintendo Switch while Matt played it on his trusty old WiiU. This episode was a little longer than our others since we had so much to talk about.  Let us know what you thought about the show! You can tweet us @SideQuest_Games or join us in discord by heading to http://SideQuest.Show.  ------------------------ Audio Credits: Bacterial Love - Rolemusic Lady Bad Luck VRC6 - RoccoW

The Side Quest video gaming podcast is based on a simple concept. The group picks a game, plays it, then gets together to talk about it. Think "book club for games"! General spoiler alert on all episodes. We'll play anything from mobile games, console games (everything from NES, SNES, N64, PSX, PS2 to modern consoles like Switch, XONE, PS4 are on the table!), PC games, MMORPGs, FPS, MOBAs, RPGs, action, adventure, tactical, RTS, you name it. We'd love for you to come be a part of selecting the game for our next episode! Join us in discord to discuss and help us choose our next game! http://sidequest.show ------------------------ Matt and Jack connect this episode after replaying an old favorite, Kirby's Dream Course, for the Super NES! ------------------------ Audio Credits: Bacterial Love - Rolemusic Lady Bad Luck VRC6 - RoccoW

On this episode Mike explains the lack of updates/Podcasts due to his most recent PC upgrade, during which the Mike and Jon missed the chance to speak about the flaming hatred revolving Hello Games No Man's Sky. The two also talk about their thoughs and impressions from the Battlefield 1 (what a dumb name...) Beta. And finally the two discuss their realization that they probably won't ever be console peasants ever again....

FINALLY! TRG! Is here to discuss! PC Gaming! We brought on resident PCMR Extraordinaire, Zach Bucholz, to help us discuss the common misconceptions of building PCs, Nintendo's fake(?) NX controller, Xbox bridging the gap between platforms, discuss the doctrine of election, and more! News Nintendo NX Controller Leaked? (Debunked) Telltale Updates Engine for Batman Xbox Bridging the Cross-Platform Gap Check out Zach's podcast, Gulfers in the Basement! Don't forget to leave an iTunes review and favorite us on Overcast! If you would like to contact us: Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Instagram! Follow our website! Email us @ thereformedgamers@gmail.com!

So much to discuss.. Ashley Madison continues to fester, Rentboys get caught out, new books get released, and ... anime? Plus emails- shame about kinks, a con report, cross dresser hate crimes, podcasts, and joining the glorious PCMR. Like the show? Support us on Patreon! $1 an episode goes a long way! www.patreon.com/knotcast

During the chat they break down $7.1 billion ski-industry and what that means for tourism in a top ski town. Additionally, Bill also shares his marketing expertise with us revealing how a city can come together as a collective to all find success. Did you know that Park City is the biggest ski resort in the USA after Vail Resorts bought Park City Mountain Resorts (PCMR) for $182.5 million this Sept. and announced they’ll connect Canyons Resorts and PCMR to form a 7,000-acre+mega resort. And did you know Park City is home to the Utah Olympic Park, the venue for several events during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and Sundance Film Festival. Approximately 45,000+ visitors spend on average a total of $63.9 million during this 10-day period (happening every January), making this world-renowned destination an expert in hosting major events in the tourism industry. You are going to find inspiration here and how to make successes in your market too