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Bring out your tissues and prepare to cry for this week's Manga in Motion on Look Back! We talk about the shorter anime movie adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's emotional one shot! Also discussions on wonky anatomy, The Legend of Kamui, Silver Mountain, Aoi Honou, and more!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Listener Email - 00:02:36 The Legend of Kamui - 00:18:45 Silver Mountain and Vampidol Tagiru - 00:39:36 Aoi Honou and Hoero Pen - 00:43:15 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - 00:52:20 Dinosaur - 00:54:54 Next Episode Preview - 01:08:46 Look Back - 01:09:06 Outro - 01:55:52 Song Credits: “Hopscotch” by Louis Adrien “Jiggin the Jig” by Bless & the Professionals “Green Light” by Emily Lewis “Tasty Bites” by ZISO

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and to support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.WhoJeff Colburn, General Manager of Silver Mountain, IdahoRecorded onFebruary 12, 2025About Silver MountainClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: CMR Lands, which also owns 49 Degrees North, WashingtonLocated in: Kellogg, IdahoYear founded: 1968 as Jackass ski area, later known as Silverhorn, operated intermittently in the 1980s before its transformation into Silver in 1990Pass affiliations:* Indy Pass – 2 days, select blackouts* Indy+ Pass – 2 days, no blackouts* Powder Alliance – 3 days, select blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Lookout Pass (:26)Base elevation: 4,100 feet (lowest chairlift); 2,300 feet (gondola)Summit elevation: 6,297 feetVertical drop: 2,200 feetSkiable acres: 1,600+Average annual snowfall: 340 inchesTrail count: 80Lift count: 7 (1 eight-passenger gondola, 1 fixed-grip quad, 2 triples, 2 doubles – view Lift Blog's inventory of Silver Mountain's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himAfter moving to Manhattan in 2002, I would often pine for an extinct version of New York City: docks thrust into the Hudson, masted ships, ornate brickwork factories, carriages, open windows, kids loose in the streets, summer evening crowds on stoops and patios. Modern New York, riotous as it is for an American city, felt staid and sterile beside the island's explosively peopled black-and-white past.Over time, I've developed a different view: New York City is a triumph of post-industrial reinvention, able to shed and quickly replace obsolete industries with those that would lead the future. And my idealized New York, I came to realize, was itself a snapshot of one lost New York, but not the only lost New York, just my romanticized etching of a city that has been in a constant state of reinvention for 400 years.It's through this same lens that we can view Silver Mountain. For more than a century, Kellogg was home to silver mines that employed thousands. When the Bunker Hill Mine closed in 1981, it took the town's soul with it. The city became a symbol of industrial decline, of an America losing its rough-and-ragged hammer-bang grit.And for a while, Kellogg was a denuded and dusty crater pockmarking the glory-green of Idaho's panhandle. The population collapsed. Suicide rates, Colburn tells us on the podcast, were high.But within a decade, town officials peered toward the skeleton of Jackass ski area, with its intact centerpole Riblet double, and said, “maybe that's the thing.” With help from Von Roll, they erected three chairlifts on the mountain and taxed themselves $2 million to string a three-mile-long gondola from town to mountain, opening the ski area to the masses by bypassing the serpentine seven-mile-long access road. (Gosh, can you think of anyplace else where such a contraption would work?)Silver rose above while the Environmental Protection Agency got to work below, cleaning up what had been designated a massive Superfund site. Today, Kellogg, led by Silver, is a functional, modern place, a post-industrial success story demonstrating how recreation can anchor an economy and a community. The service sector lacks the fiery valor of industry. Bouncing through snow, gifted from above, for fun, does not resonate with America's self-image like the gutsy miner pulling metal from the earth to feed his family. Town founder/mining legend Noah Kellogg and his jackass companion remain heroic local figures. But across rural America, ski areas have stepped quietly into the vacuum left by vacated factories and mines, where they become a source of community identity and a stabilizing agent where no other industry makes sense.What we talked aboutSki Idaho; what it will take to transform Idaho into a ski destination; the importance of Grand Targhee to Idaho; old-time PNW skiing; Schweitzer as bellwether for Idaho ski area development; Kellogg, Idaho's mining history, Superfund cleanup, and renaissance as a resort town; Jackass ski area and its rebirth as Silver Mountain; the easiest big mountain access in America; taking a gondola to the ski area; the Jackass Snack Shack; an affordable mountain town?; Silver's destination potential; 49 Degrees North; these obscenely, stupidly low lift ticket prices:Potential lift upgrades, including Chair 4; snowmaking potential; baselodge expansion; Indy Pass; and the Powder Alliance.What I got wrongI mentioned that Telluride's Mountain Village Gondola replacement would cost $50 million. The actual estimates appear to be $60 million. The two stages of that gondola total 10,145 feet, more than a mile shorter than Silver's astonishing 16,350 feet (3.1 miles).Why now was a good time for this interviewIn the ‘90s, before the advent of the commercial internet, I learned about skiing from magazines. They mostly wrote about the American West and their fabulous, over-hill-and-dale ski complexes: Vail and Sun Valley and Telluride and the like. But these publications also exposed the backwaters where you could mainline pow and avoid liftlines, and do it all for less than the price of a bologna sandwich. It was in Skiing's October 1994 Favorite Resorts issue that I learned about this little slice of magnificence:Snow, snow, snow, steep, steep, steep, cheap, cheap, cheap, and a feeling you've gone back to a special time and place when life, and skiing, was uncomplicated – those are the things that make [NAME REDACTED] one of our favorite resorts. It's the ultimate pure skiing experience. This was another surprise choice, even to those who named [REDACTED] to their lists. We knew people liked [REDACTED], but we weren't prepared for how many, or how create their affections were. This is the one area that broke the “Great Skiing + Great Base Area + Amenities = Favorite Resort” equation. [REDACTED] has minimal base development, no shopping, no nightlife, no fancy hotels or eateries, and yet here it is on our list, a tribute to the fact that in the end, really great skiing matters more than any other single resort feature.OK, well this sounds amazing. Tell me more……[REDACTED] has one of the cheapest lift tickets around.…One of those rare places that hasn't been packaged, streamlined, suburbanized. There's also that delicious atmosphere of absolute remoteness from the everyday world.…The ski area for traditionalists, ascetics, and cheapskates. The lifts are slow and creaky, the accommodations are spartan, but the lift tickets are the best deal in skiing.This super-secret, cheaper-than-Tic-Tacs, Humble Bro ski center tucked hidden from any sign of civilization, the Great Skiing Bomb Shelter of 1994, is…Alta.Yes, that Alta.The Alta with four high-speed lifts.The Alta with $199 peak-day walk-up lift tickets.The Alta that headlines the Ikon Pass and Mountain Collective.The Alta with an address at the top of America's most over-burdened access road.Alta is my favorite ski area. There is nothing else like it anywhere (well, except directly next door). And a lot remains unchanged since 1994: there still isn't much to do other than ski, the lodges are still “spartan,” it is still “steep” and “deep.” But Alta blew past “cheap” a long time ago, and it feels about as embedded in the wilderness as an exit ramp Chuck E. Cheese. Sure, the viewshed is mostly intact, but accessing the ski area requires a slow-motion up-canyon tiptoe that better resembles a civilization-level evacuation than anything we would label “remote.” Alta is still Narnia, but the Alta described above no longer exists.Well, no s**t? Aren't we talking about Idaho here? Yes, but no one else is. And that's what I'm getting at: the Alta of 2025, the place where everything is cheap and fluffy and empty, is Idaho. Hide behind your dumb potato jokes all you want, but you can't argue with this lineup:“Ummm, Grand Targhee is in Wyoming, D*****s.”Thank you, Geography Bro, but the only way to access GT is through Idaho, and the mountain has been a member of Ski Idaho for centuries because of it.Also: Lost Trail and Lookout Pass both straddle the Montana-Idaho border.Anyway, check that roster, those annual snowfall totals. Then look at how difficult these ski areas are to access. The answer, mostly, is “Not Very.” You couldn't make Silver Mountain easier to get to unless you moved it to JFK airport: exit the interstate, drive seven feet, park, board the gondola.Finally, let's compare that group of 15 Idaho ski areas to the 15 public, aerial-lift-served ski areas in Utah. Even when you include Targhee and all of Lost Trail and Lookout, Utah offers 32 percent more skiable terrain than Idaho:But Utah tallies three times more annual skier visits than Idaho:No, Silver Mountain is not Alta, and Brundage is not Snowbird. But Silver and Brundage don't get skied out in under 45 seconds on a powder day. And other than faster lifts and more skiers, there's not much separating the average Utah ski resort from the average Idaho ski resort.That won't be true forever. People are dumb in the moment, but smart in slow-motion. We are already seeing meaningful numbers of East Coast ski families reorient their ski trips east, across the Atlantic (one New York-based reader explained to me today how they flew their family to Norway for skiing over President's weekend because it was cheaper than Vermont). Soon enough, Planet California and everyone else is going to tire of the expense and chaos of Colorado and Utah, and they'll Insta-sleuth their way to this powdery Extra-Rockies that everyone forgot about. No reason to wait for all that.Why you should ski Silver MountainI have little to add outside of what I wrote above: go to Silver because it's big and cheap and awesome. So I'll add this pinpoint description from Skibum.net:It's hard to find something negative about Silver Mountain; the only real drawback is that you probably live nowhere near it. On the other hand, if you live within striking distance, you already know that this is easily the best kept ski secret in Idaho and possibly the entire western hemisphere. If not, you just have to convince the family somehow that Kellogg Idaho — not Vail, not Tahoe, not Cottonwood Canyon — is the place you ought to head for your next ski trip. Try it, and you'll see why it's such a well-kept secret. All-around fantastic skiing, terrific powder, virtually no liftlines, reasonable pricing. Layout is kind of quirky; almost like an upside-down mountain due to gondola ride to lodge…interesting place. Emphasis on expert skiing but all abilities have plenty of terrain. Experts will find a ton of glades … One of the country's great underrated ski areas.Some of you will just never bother traveling for a mountain that lacks high-speed lifts. I understand, but I think that's a mistake. Slow lifts don't matter when there are no liftlines. And as Skiing wrote about Alta in 1994, “Really great skiing matters more than any other single resort feature.”Podcast NotesOn Schweitzer's transformationIf we were to fast-forward 30 years, I think we would find that most large Idaho ski areas will have undergone a renaissance of the sort that Schweitzer, Idaho did over the previous 30 years. Check the place out in 1988, a big but backwoods ski area covered in double chairs:Compare that to Schweitzer today: four high-speed quads, a sixer, and two triples that are only fixed-grip because the GM doesn't like exposed high-elevation detaches.On Silver's legacy ski areasSilver was originally known as Jackass, then Silverhorn. That original chairlift, installed in 1967, stands today as Chair 4:On the Jackass Snack ShackThis mid-mountain building, just off Chair 4, is actually a portable structure moved north from Tamarack:On 49 Degrees NorthCMR Lands also owns 49 Degrees North, an outstanding ski area two-and-a-half hours west and roughly equidistant from Spokane as Silver is (though in opposite directions). In 2021, the mountain demolished a top-to-bottom, 1972 SLI double for a brand-new, 1,851-vertical-foot high-speed quad, from which you can access most of the resort's 2,325 acres.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us. 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

Asking the monkeys who accompanied him to the south and who had begun to feel diffident about their success to take note of the delay that was taking place in carrying out the command of Sugriva and to beware of Sugriva's wrath, which was sure to follow in consequence of the delay, Angada advises them to take heart and encourages them to pursue their search vigorously. Encouraged by his enlivening words, they sally forth once more to renew their search in the cave of the Silver Mountain and, getting exhausted after a strenuous search, repose awhile in a grove and get ready to resume their efforts.Recitation: 00:00 - 03:45Translation: 03:49 - 09:00

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Henda fyrsta Rainbow-plátan verður framvegis spæld í føroyskum útvarpi, harav 'Temple of the King' og 'Man on the Silver Mountain' eru mest at hoyra. Ritchie Blackmore skrivaði mesta tónleikin og Ronnie James Dio skrivaði flestu tekstirnar. Tvey tøkuløg eru á plátuni. Gittaristurin Ritchie Blackmore var farin úr Deep Purple og fyrsta ætlanin var at innspæla ein singleplátu sum solistur. A-síðan skuldi vera ein endurinnspæling av Black Sheep Of The Family, ið enska trioin Quartermass átti. Sum B-síðu ætlaði hann Sixteenth Century Greensleeves, ið var nýkomponerað lag. Henda studiospæling skuldi fara fram í Florida saman við sangaranum og trummusláaranum í amerikanska rokkbluesorkestrinum ELF, Ronnie James Dio og Gary Driscoll. Eisini var fyrrverandi E.L.O.-sellospælarin, Hugh McDowell, við á studioliðnum. Men stutt seinni broytti Ritchie Blackmore útgávuætlanina frá einari singleplátu til eina heila Long Playing. Hann fekk teir eftirverandi limirnar í ELF at koma uppí dansin eisini; tangentspælaran Micky Lee Soule, og bassistin Craig Gruber, og upptøkan var flutt úr USA til Musicland Studios í Múnsjen, Týsklandi. Tann 4..august í 1975 var fyrsta Rainbow-plátan tøk í handlunum. Hon hevði fingið heitið 'Ritchie Blakcmore's Rainbow'. Umframt góðan rokktónleik og stóra sølu kom tað burturúr, at heimurin hevði fingið ein nýggjan rokksangara av fyrstu skuffu, Ronnie James Dio. Tá hann sum 67 ára gamal doyði í 2010, hevði hann selt 47 millónir album eintøk - bæði sum bólkalimur og solistur. Í Rainbow var hann við á teimum trimum fyrstu studioplátunum, umframt konsertplátuni On Stage (og øðrum konsertplátum, ið givnar vórðu út seinni), og síðani skiltust hann og Blackmore. Hóast nógvir lurtarar halda Rainbow Rising frá 1976 vera veruliga sveinastykkið hjá hesum bólki Blackmores, helt Ronnie James Dio sjálvur frum- og Temaplátuna, Ritche Blackmore's Rainbow, vera ta bestu. Í 2025 fer hon um hálva øld í aldri og tað er eisini hana, sum vit leggja dent á í hesi sending. Spæliskráin: 1..Still I'm Sad 2..Self Portrait 3..Catch the rainbow 4..Sixteenth Cetury Greensleeves 5..Snake Charmer 6..The Temple of The King 7..Man on the Silver Mountain 8..If you don't like rock and roll 9..Black Sheep of the Family Plátubarrin 22.2.25  

In this episode, we dive deep into the Midwest metal scene, featuring a candid interview with Derek Brumley of Conquest. With their latest album, Paradox, Derek shares insights on the songwriting process, the influences behind their music, and how the band has evolved. We also discuss the future of heavy metal and what keeps bands like Conquest going strong. Tune in for stories about creating this dynamic new album, working together as a band, and the enduring legacy of heavy metal. If you're curious about how bands stay relevant in today's music world, you'll love this episode! Episode Highlights

In this episode, we dive deep into the Midwest metal scene, featuring a candid interview with Derrick Brumley of Conquest. With their latest album, Paradox, Derrick shares insights on the songwriting process, the influences behind their music, and how the band has evolved. We also discuss the future of heavy metal and what keeps bands like Conquest going strong. Tune in for stories about creating this dynamic new album, working together as a band, and the enduring legacy of heavy metal. If you're curious about how bands stay relevant in today's music world, you'll love this episode! Episode Highlights

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"RITCHIE BLACKMORE'S RAINBOW" com todas as faixas comentadas ao vivo! Faixas: 1. "Man on the Silver Mountain" 2. "Self Portrait" 3. "Black Sheep of the Family" (cover de Quatermass) 4. "Catch the Rainbow" 5. "Snake Charmer" 6. "The Temple of the King" 7. "If You Don't Like Rock 'n' Roll" 8. "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves" 9. "Still I'm Sad" (cover de The Yardbirds) Formação: Ronnie James Dio - Vocal Ritchie Blackmore - Guitarra Micky Lee Soule - Teclados Craig Gruber - Baixo Gary Driscoll - Bateria ******************************************** Contato, sugestões e parcerias: canaltupfs@gmail.com Instagram: @canal_tomaruma SEJA MEMBRO DO CLUBE TUPFS E TENHA ACESSO A UMA SÉRIE DE VANTAGENS! Você pode escolher um dos planos abaixo: HEADBANGER (R$ 1,99 por mês) Acesso antecipado aos vídeos novos do canal, seu nome divulgado durante os vídeos em agradecimento e outros conteúdos exclusivos! Além disso, terá um selo de fidelidade ao lado do seu nome sempre que deixar um comentário e emojis exclusivos. ROCKSTAR (R$ 7,99 por mês) Além de todos os benefícios anteriores, você ganha acesso ao nosso grupo exclusivo no WhatsApp. Nele, você fará parte de uma incrível comunidade de aficcionados por música. Você também interage diretamente com os criadores, dá nota nas resenhas, deixa perguntas para as entrevistas e participa de várias outras maneiras da criação de conteúdo no canal. METAL GOD (R$24,99 por mês) Além de todos os benefícios anteriores e dar uma grande ajuda para a nossa criação de conteúdo, você pode ESCOLHER TEMA DE EPISÓDIO. Dentro da temática do canal, é claro. SEJA MEMBRO: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1lgalkCBW9Uv3GyrzhhkA/join ******************************************** Nos siga nas redes sociais: Twitter: @iurimoreira / @rafael2099 Instagram: @iurimoreira / rafaelaraujo2099

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You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoHoward Katkov, Chairman and CEO of Red Mountain Resort, British ColumbiaRecorded onFeb. 8, 2024About Red MountainClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Red Mountain VenturesLocated in: Rossland, British Columbia, CanadaYear founded: 1947 (beginning of chairlift service)Pass affiliations:* Ikon Pass: 7 days, no blackouts* Ikon Base Pass and Ikon Base Pass Plus: 5 days, holiday blackouts* Lake Louise Pass (described below)Closest neighboring ski areas: Salmo (:58), Whitewater (1:22), Phoenix Mountain (1:33), 49 Degrees North (1:53)Base elevation: 3,887 feet/1,185 metersSummit elevation: 6,807 feet/2,075 metersVertical drop: 2,919 feet/890 metersSkiable Acres: 3,850Average annual snowfall: 300 inches/760 cmTrail count: 119 (17% beginner, 34% intermediate, 23% advanced, 26% expert)Lift count: 8 (2 fixed-grip quads, 3 triples, 1 double, 1 T-bar, 1 carpet)View historic Red Mountain trailmaps on skimap.org. Here are some cool video overviews:Granite Mountain:Red Mountain:Grey Mountain:Rossland:Why I interviewed himIt's never made sense to me, this psychological dividing line between Canada and America. I grew up in central Michigan, in a small town closer to Canada (the bridge between Sarnia and Port Huron stood 142 miles away), than the closest neighboring state (Toledo, Ohio, sat 175 miles south). Yet, I never crossed into Canada until I was 19, by which time I had visited roughly 40 U.S. states. Even then, the place felt more foreign than it should, with its aggressive border guards, pizza at McDonald's, and colored currency. Canada on a map looks easy, but Canada in reality is a bit harder, eh?Red sits just five miles, as the crow flies, north of the U.S. border. If by some fluke of history the mountain were part of Washington, it would be the state's greatest ski area, larger than Crystal and Stevens Pass combined. In fact, it would be the seventh-largest ski area in the country, larger than Mammoth or Snowmass, smaller only than Park City, Palisades, Big Sky, Vail, Heavenly, and Bachelor.But, somehow, the international border acts as a sort of invisibility shield, and skiing Red is a much different experience than visiting any of those giants, with their dense networks of high-speed lifts and destination crowds (well, less so at Bachelor). Sure, Red is an Ikon Pass mountain, and has been for years, but it is not synonymous with the pass, like Jackson or Aspen or Alta-Snowbird. But U.S. skiers – at least those outside of the Pacific Northwest – see Red listed on the Ikon menu and glaze past it like the soda machine at an open bar. It just doesn't seem relevant.Which is weird and probably won't last. And right now Shoosh Emoji Bro is losing his goddamn mind and cursing me for using my platform focused on lift-served snowskiing to hype one of the best and most interesting and most underrated lift-served snowskiing operations in North America. But that's why this whole deal exists, Brah. Because most people ski at the same 20 places and I really think skiing as an idea and as an experience and as a sustainable enterprise will be much better off if we start spreading people out a bit more.What we talked aboutRed pow days; why Red amped up shuttle service between the ski area and Rossland and made it free; old-school Tahoe; “it is the most interesting mountain I've ever skied”; buying a ski area when you've never worked at a ski area; why the real-estate crash didn't bury Red like some other ski areas; why Katkov backed away from a golf course that he spent a year and a half planning at Red; why the 900 lockers at the dead center of the base area aren't going anywhere; housing and cost of living in Rossland; “we look at our neighborhood as an extension of our community of Rossland”; base area development plans; balancing parking with people; why and how Red Mountain still sells affordable ski-in, ski-out real estate; “our ethos is to be accessible for everybody”; whether we could ever see a lift from Rossland to Red; why Red conducted a crowd-funding ownership campaign and what they did with the money; Red's newest ownership partners; the importance of independence; “the reality is that the pass, whether it's the Epic or the Ikon Pass, has radically changed the way that consumers experience skiing”; why Red joined the Ikon Pass and why it's been good for the mountain; the Mountain Collective; why Red has no high-speed lifts and whether we could ever see one; no stress on a powder day; Red's next logical lift upgrades; potential lift-served expansions onto Kirkup, White Wolf, and Mt. Roberts; and the Powder Highway.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewMy full-scale assault of Canada, planned for 2023, has turned into more of an old-person's bus tour. I'm stopping at all the big sites, but I sure am taking my time, and I'm not certain that I'm really getting the full experience.Part of this echoes the realization centuries' of armies have had when invading Russia: damn this place is big. I'd hoped to quickly fold the whole country into the newsletter, as I'd been able to do with the Midwest and West when I expanded The Storm's coverage out of the Northeast in 2021. But I'd grown up in the Midwest and been skiing the West annually for decades. I'd underestimated how much that had mattered. I'd skied a bit in Canada, but not consistently enough to kick the door down in the manner I'd hoped. I started counting ski areas in Quebec and stopped when I got to 4,000*, 95 percent of which were named “Mont [some French word with numerous squiggly marks above the letters].” The measurements are different. The money is different. The language, in Quebec, is different. I needed to slow down.So I'm starting with western Canada. Well, I started there last year, when I hosted the leaders of SkiBig3 and Sun Peaks on the podcast. This is the easiest Canadian region for a U.S. American to grasp: Epic, Ikon, Mountain Collective, and Indy Pass penetration is deep, especially in British Columbia. Powdr, Boyne, Vail, and Pacific Group Resorts all own ski areas in the province. There is no language barrier.So, Red today, Panorama next month, Whistler in June. That's the way the podcast calendar sets up now, anyway. I'll move east as I'm able.But Red, in particular, has always fascinated me. If you're wondering what the largest ski area in North America is that has yet to install a high-speed lift, this is your answer. For many of you, that may be a deal-breaker. But I see a time-machine, an opportunity to experience a different sort of skiing, but with modern gear. Like if aliens were to land on today's Earth with their teleportation devices and language-translation brain chips and standard-issue post-industro-materialist silver onesies. Like wow look how much easier the past is when you bring the future with you.Someday, Red will probably build a high-speed lift or two or four, and enough skiers who are burned out on I-70 and LCC but refuse to give up their Ikon Passes will look north and say, “oh my, what's this all about?” And Red will become some version of Jackson Hole or Big Sky or Whistler, beefy but also busy, remote but also accessible. But I wanted to capture Red, as it is today, before it goes away.*Just kidding, there are actually 12,000.^^OK, OK, there are like 90. Or 90,000.Why you should ski Red MountainLet's say you've had an Ikon Pass for the past five or six ski seasons. You've run through the Colorado circuit, navigated the Utah canyons, circled Lake Tahoe. The mountains are big, but so are the crowds. The Ikon Pass, for a moment, was a cool little hack, like having an iPhone in 2008. But then everyone got them, and now the world seems terrible because of it.But let's examine ye ‘ole Ikon partner chart more closely, to see what else may be on offer:What's this whole “Canada” section about? Perhaps, during the pandemic, you resigned yourself to U.S. American travel. Perhaps you don't have a passport. Perhaps converting centimeters to inches ignites a cocktail of panic and confusion in your brain. But all of these are solvable dilemmas. Take a deeper look at Canada.In particular, take a deeper look at Red. Those stats are in American. Meaning this is a ski area bigger than Mammoth, taller than Palisades, snowy as Aspen. And it's just one stop on a stacked Ikon BC roster that also includes Sun Peaks (Canada's second-largest ski area), Revelstoke (the nation's tallest by vertical drop), and Panorama.We are not so many years removed from the age of slow-lift, empty American icons. Alta's first high-speed lift didn't arrive until 1999 (they now have four). Big Sky's tin-can tram showed up in 1995. A 1994 Skiing magazine article described the then-Squaw Valley side of what is now Palisades Tahoe as a pokey and remote fantasyland:…bottomless steeps, vast acreage, 33 lifts and no waiting. America's answer to the wide-open ski circuses of Europe. After all these years the mountain is still uncrowded, except on weekends when people pile in from the San Francisco Bay area in droves. Squaw is unflashy, underbuilt, and seems entirely indifferent to success. The opposite of what you would expect one of America's premier resorts to be.Well that's cute. And it's all gone now. America still holds its secrets, vast, affordable fixed-grip ski areas such as Lost Trail and Discovery and Silver Mountain. But none of them have joined the Ikon Pass, and none gives you the scale of Red, this glorious backwater with fixed-grip lifts that rise 2,400 vertical feet to untracked terrain. Maybe it will stay like this forever, but it probably won't. So go there now.Podcast NotesOn Red's masterplanRed's masterplan outlines potential lift-served expansions onto Kirkup, White Wolf, and Mount Roberts. We discuss the feasibility of each. Here's what the mountain could look like at full build-out:On Jane CosmeticsAn important part of Katkov's backstory is his role as founder of Jane cosmetics, a ‘90s bargain brand popular with teenagers. He built the company into a smash success and sold it to Estée Lauder, who promptly tanked it. Per Can't Hardly Dress:Lauder purchased the company in 1997. Jane was a big deal for Lauder because it was the company's first mass market drugstore brand. Up until that point, Lauder only owned prestige brands like MAC, Clinique, Jo Malone and more. Jane was a revolutionary move for the company and a quick way to enter the drugstore mass market.Lauder had no clue what do with Jane and sales plummeted from $50 million to $25 million by 2004. Several successive sales and relaunches also failed, and, according to the article above, “As it stands today, the brand is dunzo. Leaving behind a default Shopify site, an Instagram unupdated for 213 weeks and a Facebook last touched three years ago.”On Win Smith and SugarbushKatkov's story shares parallels with that of Win Smith, the Wall-Streeter-turned-resort-operator who nurtured Sugarbush between its days as part of the American Skiing Company shipwreck and its 2019 purchase by Alterra. Smith joined me on the podcast four years ago, post-Alterra sale, to share the whole story.On housing in Banff and Sun PeaksCanadian mountain towns are not, in general, backed up against the same cliff as their American counterparts. This is mostly the result of more deliberate regional planning policies that either regulate who's allowed to live where, or allow for smart growth over time (meaning they can build things without 500 lawsuits). I discussed the former model with SkiBig3 (Banff) President Pete Woods here, and the latter with Sun Peaks GM Darcy Alexander here. U.S. Americans could learn a lot from looking north.On not being able to buy slopeside real estate in Oregon, Washington, or California The Pacific Northwest is an extremely weird ski region. The resorts are big and snowy, but unless you live there, you've probably never visited any of them. As I wrote a few weeks back:Last week, Peak Rankings analyzed the matrix of factors that prevent Oregon and Washington ski areas, despite their impressive acreage and snowfall stats, from becoming destination resorts. While the article suggests the mountains' proximity to cities, lousy weather, and difficult access roads as blockers, just about every prominent ski area in America fights some combination of these circumstances. The article's most compelling argument is that, with few exceptions, there's really nowhere to stay on most of the mountains. I've written about this a number of times myself, with this important addendum: There's nowhere to stay on most of the mountains, and no possibility of building anything anytime soon.The reasons for this are many and varied, but can be summarized in this way: U.S. Americans, in thrall to an environmental vision that prizes pure wilderness over development of any kind, have rejected the notion that building dense, human-scaled, walkable mountainside communities would benefit the environment far more than making everyone drive to skiing every single day. Nowhere has this posture taken hold more thoroughly than in the Pacific Northwest.Snowy and expansive British Columbia, perhaps sensing a business opportunity, has done the opposite, streamlining ski resort development through a set of policies known as the B.C. Commercial Alpine Ski Policy. As a result, ski areas in the province have rapidly expanded over the past 30 years…California is a very different market, with plenty of legacy slopeside development. It tends to be expensive, however, as building anything new requires a United Nations treaty, an act of Jesus, and a total eclipse of the sun in late summer of a Leap Year. Perhaps 2024 will be it.On “Fight The Man, Own the Mountain”Red ran a crowd-funding campaign a few years back called “Fight the Man, Own the Mountain.” We discuss this on the pod, but here is a bit more context from a letter Katkov wrote on the subject:Investing in RED means investing in history, independence, and in this growing family that shares the same importance on lifestyle and culture. RED is the oldest ski resort in Western Canada and it has always been fiercely independent. There are not many, if any ski resorts left in North America like Red and the success of our campaign demonstrates a desire by so many of you to, help, in a small way, to protect the lifestyle, soul and ski culture that emanates from Red.RED is a place I've been beyond proud to co-own and captain since 2004 and the door is still open to share that feeling and be a part of our family. But please note that despite the friendly atmosphere, this is one of the Top 20 resorts in North America in terms of terrain. The snow's unreal and the people around here are some of the coolest, most down-to-earth folks you're ever likely to meet. (Trying to keep up with them on the hill is another thing entirely…)With $2 million so far already committed and invested, we wasted no time acting on promised improvements. These upgrades included a full remodel of fan favorite Paradise Lodge (incl. flush toilets!) as well as the expansion of RED's retail and High Performance centres. This summer we'll see the construction of overnight on-mountain cabins and the investor clubhouse (friends welcome!) as well as continued parking expansion. We've heard from a number of early investors that they were beyond stoked to enjoy the new Paradise Lodge so soon after clicking the BUY button. Hey, ownership has its privileges…On the Lake Louise PassKatkov mentions the “Lake Louise Pass,” which Red participates in, along with Castle Mountain and Panorama. He's referring to the Lake Louise Plus Card, which costs $134 Canadian up front. Skiers then get their first, fourth, and seventh days free, and 20 percent off lift tickets for each additional visit. While these sorts of discount cards have been diminished by Epkon domination, versions of them still provide good value across the continent. The Colorado Gems Card, Smugglers' Notch's Bash Badge, and ORDA's frequent skier cards are all solid options for skiers looking to dodge the megapass circus.On the Powder HighwayRed is the closest stop on the Powder Highway to U.S. America. This is what the Powder Highway is:And here's the circuit:Fairmont is just a little guy, but Kicking Horse, Kimberley, and Fernie are Epic Pass partners owned by Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, and Revy, Red, and Panorama are all on Ikon. Whitewater used to be on M.A.X. Pass, but is now pass-less. Just to the west of this resort cluster sits Big White (Indy), Silver Star (Ikon), and Sun Peaks (Ikon). To their east is Sunshine, Lake Louise, Norquay (all Ikon), and Castle (Indy). There are also Cat and heli-ski operations all over the place. You could lose a winter here pretty easily.On Katkov's business backgroundIn this episode of the Fident Capital Podcast, Katkov goes in-depth on his business philosophy and management style. Here's another:On bringing the city to the mountainsWhile this notion, rashly interpreted, could summon ghastly visions of Aspen-esque infestations of Fendi stores in downtown Rossland, it really just means building things other than slopeside mansions with 19 kitchens and a butler's wing. From a 2023 resort press release:Red Development Company, the real estate division of RED Mountain Resort (RED), in conjunction with ACE Project Marketing Group (ACE), recently reported the sell-out of the resort's latest real estate offering during the season opening of the slopes. On offer was The Crescent at RED, a collection of 102 homes, ranging from studio to one bedrooms and lofts featuring a prime ski in – ski out location. Howard Katkov, CEO of RED, and Don Thompson, RED President, first conceived of bringing the smaller urban living model to the alpine slopes in January 2021. ACE coined the concept as "everything you need and nothing you don't" …An important component was ensuring that the price point for The Crescent was accessible to locals and those who know and love the destination. With prices starting mid $300s – an excellent price when converted to USD – and with an achievable 5% deposit down, The Crescent at RED was easily one of the best value propositions in real estate for one of the best ranked ski resorts in North America. Not surprisingly, over 50% of the Crescent buyers were from the United States, spurred on by the extraordinary lifestyle and value offered by The Crescent, but also the new sparsity of Canadian property available to foreign buyers.As a good U.S. American, I ask Katkov why he didn't simply price these units for the one-percenters, and how he managed the House-Flipping Henries who would surely interpret these prices as opportunity. His answers might surprise you, and may give you hope that a different sort of ski town is possible.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 15/100 in 2024, and number 515 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

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

Volt egykor egy műsor a Petőfin. A címe: Töltsön egy órát kedvenceivel! Erről a címről ugyan lemaradtunk, de mottónak nem is rossz! Legyen a műfaj djent (Tesseract), dallamos metalcore (Killswitch Engage), modern magyar metal (Road), brit hard rock/metal a 90-es évekből (Paradise Lost), veretes (neo)klasszikus fémzene Svédországból (Silver Mountain) vagy műfajteremtő stoner doom (The Obsessed), nem férhet kétség hozzá, ezek a csapatok sokunk kedvencei. Egyúttal azonban a mi (szerkesztők) nagy favoritjai is. Így a mi mottónk az is lehetne, hogy „Töltsön egy órát kedvenceinkkel! A mikrofonnál továbbra is Cselő és Pintér Miki! Tarts velünk!

On this episode of the Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman welcomes Nigel from Saxon, one of his favorite bands for the past 40 years. Nigel and Pipeman talk about Saxon's new album More Inspirations and the songs that they chose to do their own version of. Nigel talks about the inspiration behind the album and the process of choosing the songs. Pipeman shares his experience of being mesmerized by Ronnie James Dio's voice during a Black Sabbath concert back in the day. He also talks about how Saxon nailed "Man on the Silver Mountain" on the album, which was a Rainbow song with Dio singing. Nigel shares that the band are huge Rainbow fans, and Ronnie was a friend of theirs, so it just made sense to do it. Nigel also talks about the process of trying to "Saxon" each song, as they wanted to put their own flavor to it, which he believes they have achieved. He mentions that the whole band was involved in choosing the songs, and it was a lot of fun. There wasn't any song that they had a hard time agreeing on. The album, according to Pipeman, sounded like Saxon and not like the original songs, which Nigel says was intentional. Be sure to pick up your copy of the new album off you usual music selling platforms, like Amazon, and keep an eye out for next year when they'll be releasing another studio album which is super excitingTake some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes”. Listen to & Watch a show dedicated to motivation, business, empowerment, inspiration, music, comedy, celebrities, shock jock radio, various topics, and entertainment. The Adventures of Pipeman is hosted by Dean K. Piper, CST aka “The Pipeman” who has been said to be hybrid of Tony Robbins, Batman, and Howard Stern. The Adventures of Pipeman has received many awards, media features, and has been ranked for multiple categories as one of the Top 6 Live Radio Shows & Podcasts in the world. Pipeman Radio also consists of multiple podcasts showing the many sides of Pipeman. These include The Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman in the Pit, and Positively Pipeman and more. You can find all of the Pipeman Podcasts anywhere you listen to podcasts. With thousands of episodes that focus on Intertainment which combines information and entertainment there is something for everyone including over 5000 interviews with celebrities, music artists/bands, authors, speakers, coaches, entrepreneurs, and all kinds of professionals.Then there is The Pipeman Radio Tour where Pipeman travels the country and world doing press coverage for Major Business Events, Conferences, Conventions, Music Festivals, Concerts, Award Shows, and Red Carpets. One of the top publicists in music has named Pipeman the “King of All Festivals.” So join the Pipeman as he brings “The Pipeman Radio Tour” to life right before your ears and eyes.The Adventures of Pipeman Podcasts are heard on The Adventures of Pipeman Site, Pipeman Radio, Talk 4 Media, Talk 4 Podcasting, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Amazon Music, Audible, Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts and over 100 other podcast outlets where you listen to Podcasts. The following are the different podcasts to check out and subscribe to:• The Adventures of Pipeman• Pipeman Radio• Pipeman in the Pit• Positively PipemanFollow @pipemanradio on all social media outletsVisit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio , theadventuresofpipeman.com, pipemanradio.com, talk4media.com, w4cy.com, talk4tv.com, talk4podcasting.comDownload The Pipeman Radio APPPhone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live daily at 8AM ET.The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).The Adventures of Pipeman Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Adventures of Pipeman Podcast is also available on www.theadventuresofpipeman.com and www.pipemanradio.com Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

On this episode of the Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman welcomes Nigel from Saxon, one of his favorite bands for the past 40 years. Nigel and Pipeman talk about Saxon's new album More Inspirations and the songs that they chose to do their own version of. Nigel talks about the inspiration behind the album and the process of choosing the songs. Pipeman shares his experience of being mesmerized by Ronnie James Dio's voice during a Black Sabbath concert back in the day. He also talks about how Saxon nailed "Man on the Silver Mountain" on the album, which was a Rainbow song with Dio singing. Nigel shares that the band are huge Rainbow fans, and Ronnie was a friend of theirs, so it just made sense to do it. Nigel also talks about the process of trying to "Saxon" each song, as they wanted to put their own flavor to it, which he believes they have achieved. He mentions that the whole band was involved in choosing the songs, and it was a lot of fun. There wasn't any song that they had a hard time agreeing on. The album, according to Pipeman, sounded like Saxon and not like the original songs, which Nigel says was intentional. Be sure to pick up your copy of the new album off you usual music selling platforms, like Amazon, and keep an eye out for next year when they'll be releasing another studio album which is super excitingPipeman's Power of Music is a music and interview segment of The Adventures of Pipeman Radio Show (#pipemanradio) and from The King of All Festivals while on The Pipeman Radio Tour. Pipeman's Power of Music features all kinds of music and interviews with bands & music artists especially in the genres of Heavy Metal, Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Punk Rock, Goth, Industrial, Alternative, Thrash Metal & Indie Music. Pipeman's Power of Music also features press coverage of events, concerts, & music festivals. Pipeman Productions is an artist management company that sponsors the show introducing new local & national talent showcasing new artists & indie artists.Then there is The Pipeman Radio Tour where Pipeman travels the country and world doing press coverage for Major Business Events, Conferences, Conventions, Music Festivals, Concerts, Award Shows, and Red Carpets. One of the top publicists in music has named Pipeman the “King of All Festivals.” So join the Pipeman as he brings “The Pipeman Radio Tour” to life right before your ears and eyes.Pipeman's Power of Music Podcasts are heard on Pipeman Radio, Talk 4 Media, Talk 4 Podcasting, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Amazon Music, Audible, Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts and over 100 other podcast outlets where you listen to Podcasts. The following are the different podcasts to check out and subscribe to:•The Adventures of Pipeman•Pipeman Radio•Pipeman in the Pit•Positively PipemanFollow @pipemanradio on all social media outletsVisit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio, theadventuresofpipeman.com, pipemanradio.com, talk4media.com, w4cy.com, talk4tv.com, talk4podcasting.comDownload The Pipeman Radio APPPhone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live daily at 8AM ET.The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).The Adventures of Pipeman Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com) – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). Pipeman's Power of Music are also available on Pipeman Radio (www.pipemanradio.com), Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

On this episode of the Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman welcomes Nigel from Saxon, one of his favorite bands for the past 40 years. Nigel and Pipeman talk about Saxon's new album More Inspirations and the songs that they chose to do their own version of. Nigel talks about the inspiration behind the album and the process of choosing the songs. Pipeman shares his experience of being mesmerized by Ronnie James Dio's voice during a Black Sabbath concert back in the day. He also talks about how Saxon nailed "Man on the Silver Mountain" on the album, which was a Rainbow song with Dio singing. Nigel shares that the band are huge Rainbow fans, and Ronnie was a friend of theirs, so it just made sense to do it. Nigel also talks about the process of trying to "Saxon" each song, as they wanted to put their own flavor to it, which he believes they have achieved. He mentions that the whole band was involved in choosing the songs, and it was a lot of fun. There wasn't any song that they had a hard time agreeing on. The album, according to Pipeman, sounded like Saxon and not like the original songs, which Nigel says was intentional. Be sure to pick up your copy of the new album off you usual music selling platforms, like Amazon, and keep an eye out for next year when they'll be releasing another studio album which is super excitingPipeman in the Pit is a music and interview segment of The Adventures of Pipeman Radio Show (#pipemanradio) and from The King of All Festivals while on The Pipeman Radio Tour. Pipeman in the Pit features all kinds of music and interviews with bands & music artists especially in the genres of Heavy Metal, Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Punk Rock, Goth, Industrial, Alternative, Thrash Metal & Indie Music. Pipeman in the Pit also features press coverage of events, concerts, & music festivals. Pipeman Productions is an artist management company that sponsors the show introducing new local & national talent showcasing new artists & indie artists.Then there is The Pipeman Radio Tour where Pipeman travels the country and world doing press coverage for Major Business Events, Conferences, Conventions, Music Festivals, Concerts, Award Shows, and Red Carpets. One of the top publicists in music has named Pipeman the “King of All Festivals.” So join the Pipeman as he brings “The Pipeman Radio Tour” to life right before your ears and eyes.Pipeman in the Pit Podcasts are heard on Pipeman Radio, Talk 4 Media, Talk 4 Podcasting, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Amazon Music, Audible, Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts and over 100 other podcast outlets where you listen to Podcasts. The following are the different podcasts to check out and subscribe to:•The Adventures of Pipeman•Pipeman Radio•Pipeman in the Pit•Positively PipemanFollow @pipemanradio on all social media outletsVisit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio, theadventuresofpipeman.com, pipemanradio.com, talk4media.com, w4cy.com, talk4tv.com, talk4podcasting.comDownload The Pipeman Radio APPPhone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live daily at 8AM ET.The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).The Adventures of Pipeman Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com) – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). Pipeman in the Pit Podcasts are also available on Pipeman Radio (www.pipemanradio.com), Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on April 3. It dropped for free subscribers on April 6. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe for free below:WhoDavid Dziuban, Owner and General Manager of Whitecap Mountains, WisconsinRecorded onMarch 13, 2023About Whitecap MountainsClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: David DziubanLocated in: Upson, WisconsinYear founded: 1964Pass affiliations: Indy Pass Allied PartnerReciprocal partners: Whitecap lists the following partners on its season pass page - it is not clear what the benefit is for each mountain: Grand Targhee, Wild Mountain, Mount Bohemia, Sunlight, Camp 10, Lee Canyon, Arizona Snowbowl, Lee Canyon, Mont du Lac.Closest neighboring ski areas: Mt. Zion (28 minutes), Big Powderhorn (34 minutes), Snowriver (40 minutes), Mt. Ashwabay (1 hour, 15 minutes), Porcupine Mountains (1 hour, 21 minutes)Base elevation: 1,295 feetSummit elevation: 1,750 feetVertical drop: 455 feetSkiable Acres: 400 acresAverage annual snowfall: 200 inchesTrail count: 42 (4 expert, 12 advanced, 12 intermediate, 14 beginner)Lift count: 6 (4 doubles, 1 triple, 1 carpet) – the North Pole-South Pole double functions as two separate chairs, even though it is one long continuous lift. Skiers are not allowed to ride on the middle section, which passes over a long valley. The carpet was not yet functional for the 2022-23 ski season. Whitecap has an additional triple chair that is currently dormant, but which Dziuban intends to resurrect.Here is Whitecap's current trailmap:However, I far prefer this older version, which is my favorite trailmap of all time:Why I interviewed himOur ski areas exist where they do for a reason. That rare mix of hills, reliable precipitation, wintertime cold, a near-enough population, a road to get there. Slopes steep enough but not too steep. Water nearby. Someone with enough cash to run chairlifts up the incline and enough brains to put the whole operation together into a viable business.There are fewer geographic bullseyes of this sort than you may suppose. Look carefully at the map of U.S. ski areas – they are mostly clustered around a few-dozen rarified climate zones. Lake-effect bands or mountain spines or high-altitude nests resting at a desert's edge. Several dozen have been force-born around large cold-weather cities, of course, bulldozed into existence where cold and water abound but hills are lacking.We all know the epicenters upon which Epic and Ikon have anchored their empires: the Wasatch, Tahoe, the I-70 corridor, the Vermont Spine. But smaller, less celebrated-by-the-masses clusters dot the continent. The Interstate 90 corridor from 49 Degrees North and Mt. Spokane through Schweitzer, Silver Mountain, and Lookout Pass. Mt. Hood, one mountain that is home to four ski areas. Northern New Mexico, where half a dozen ski areas surround the fabled Taos.One of the most reliable of these micro-snowzones is Big Snow Country, a hilly wilderness straddling the border of northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. There, seated west-to-east, are four – once five – ski areas: Whitecap Mountains, Mt. Zion, Big Powderhorn, and Snowriver, which is a union of the once-separate Indianhead and Blackjack ski areas (now known as Jackson Creek Summit and Black River Basin). Seated fewer than a dozen miles above them, brooding and enormous, is Lake Superior, one of the most reliable lake-effect snowmachines on the planet:So much of Midwest skiing is funky and improvisational, a tinkerer's paradise, where the same spirit that animated 20th century factories willed one of the world's great ski cultures into existence. There are not many hills around Milwaukee or Minneapolis or Detroit, but there are plenty of ski areas. The people of the Midwest do as they please. But the ski areas of Big Snow Country are different. There is so much skiing here because the terrain and the climate seemed sculpted exactly for it.As a result, the skiing is genuinely sublime. The great tension here is the opposite problem that most of the region's mobbed ski areas face: great skiing, too few skiers. Big Snow Country is far from pretty much everything. Four hours from Minneapolis, five from Milwaukee, six-and-a-half from Chicago. Residents of those cities can reach Park City or Keystone faster than their Midwest neighbors.So what to do? For decades, these four (or five), ski areas have struggled to pin themselves to skiers' to-do lists. Mt. Zion, the smallest of the bunch, is a protectorate of Gogebic Community College, which hosts one of the nation's only programs on ski area management. Indianhead and Blackjack cycled through generations of owners and were finally combined and then sold, last year, to Charles Skinner, owner of the sprawling Granite Peak and Lutsen ski areas in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Skinner, who transformed Granite from a faltering backwater into one of the Midwest's top ski areas, is already slinging a high-speed sixer up the hillside at Snowriver and will surely connect the two ski areas within a few years. That leaves Big Powderhorn and Whitecap with a problem.How to respond? Powderhorn has at least enjoyed stable management and a loyal customer base. Whitecap, however, has struggled. Decades of deferred maintenance pushed skiers away. A 2019 lodge fire erased a crucial piece of infrastructure that has yet to be replaced. The advent, in the region, of the Epic, Ikon, and Indy Passes – not to mention a modernized Granite Peak, two hours closer to pretty much everything, and an unhinged and dirt-cheap Mount Bohemia, not so far to the north – has only clouded Whitecap's market position.David Dziuban arrived at the ski area in 2016, and slowly took control over the next few years. It was a period of personal tragedy for him. As soon as he took full ownership, the fire hit. It would have been enough to make anyone surrender. But Dziuban has found in Whitecap both salvation and mission. This place, so naturally blessed, has the bones to be one of the Midwest's great ski areas. But it needs a push, a pull, a shove into our current moment. Dziuban is the guy to provide all three.What we talked aboutA snowy Wisconsin winter; Whitecap's unique trail footprint; the great Midwest ski factory; a single sentence in a Wilmot liftline that changed Dziuban's life; a wild scheme to score a first job as a snowmaker at Plumtree, Illinois; turning down a job at Killington to work at scrappy Magic Mountain; Magic in the ‘80s; making Magic's Timberside connection; Mt. Tom, Massachusetts; homemade snowmaking; Elk Mountain, the hidden gem of Pennsylvania; a rigged splice gone wrong; Whitecap, lost in the wilderness; first impressions of a run-down and lightly used Whitecap; the long and convoluted process of taking ownership of the resort; balancing personal trauma and loss with the mission of revitalizing the ski area; taming the local homeowners' entitlement; fire levels the lodge; why Whitecap opened the next day and why it was so vital that it did; plans for a new lodge; Whitecap's huge development potential; why the ski area hasn't set up the new conveyor lift it purchased last year; snowmaking; assessing Whitecap's unique lift fleet; where we could see a new lift at Whitecap; thoughts on the long chair (North Pole/South Pole); getting the CTEC lift running again; “I want to remain affordable to everybody”; why Whitecap launched a $295 (now $325) season pass and how that product has been selling; the surprise response from a one-day season passholder reciprocal deal with Mount Bohemia; thoughts on the Indy Pass and the Allied program; and that Whitecap aura.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewNot to repeat myself, but allow me to repeat myself. A skier living in the Upper Midwest currently enjoys the following options for full-season skiing:* Purchase a $676 Epic Local Pass, which delivers turns all season at Wilmot or Afton Alps, plus basically unlimited options for runs west to Colorado, Utah, Tahoe, and Whistler.* Purchase an $829 Ikon Pass and forgo Midwest skiing altogether, hopping frequent flights to Denver and Salt Lake City from major hub airport Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP).* Purchase a $329 Indy Pass for two days each at major ski areas across the region, including some of the best and most-developed in Minnesota and Wisconsin: Granite Peak, Lutsen, Spirit Mountain, and, perhaps most significantly for Whitecap, its neighbors Big Powderhorn and Snowriver (both of which are in Michigan).* Purchase a local season pass at any of dozens of ski areas that sit within 30 minutes of downtown Minneapolis, Madison, or Milwaukee.* Scratch the gnar itch with a $109 ($99 if you can forego Saturdays), season pass to Mount Bohemia, the ungroomed natural-snow mecca hanging off the top of the UP. The pass includes reciprocal days at ski areas throughout the Midwest and the West.So, what does Whitecap do? First, control what you can: fix the beat-up lift fleet, improvise a lodge, bring stability to its operations. Dziuban has checked off that list. Second, modernize: rebuild the lodge, build out snowmaking (the current system consists of fewer than half a dozen guns), re-activate the mothballed triple chair. All of this is in progress. But there's something else: how does a ski area set itself apart in a region dense with ski areas but not with skiers? What is the story it's going to tell? Dziuban has a good one, and it's one every skier in the region ought to hear.What I got wrongI noted that Whitecap had “360-degree exposure,” when it in fact has slopes primarily facing just three directions: west, north, and south.Why you should ski Whitecap MountainsIn February, I flew into Minneapolis for a five-day Upper Midwest ski tour, making me perhaps the only person this century to travel from New York to Minnesota on purpose to ski. At least that was my conclusion from multiple chairlift conversations with befuddled locals. I swung through 11 ski areas: Welch Village, Afton Alps, Granite Peak, Nordic Mountain, Snowriver, Big Powderhorn, Mt. Zion, Whitecap, Spirit Mountain, Trollhaugen, and Buck Hill. Each was unique and memorable, in the way that every ski area is. But one resonated with me more than the others: Whitecap.I have visited hundreds of ski areas, all over the world. There is nothing quite like Whitecap. It's an enchanting place. Sprawling and gorgeous. Narrow paths wound through woods, leading into and around broad meadows, glades everywhere, all of it knitted together in a Zelda-like sprawl primed for exploration. While the vertical drop is small, the place is multilayered and complex. It is one of the few ski areas where I have ever felt legitimately lost. I took 27 runs and still didn't see half the place.Also: there was no one else there. Granted, it was a Wednesday. But coverage was excellent: 100 percent open. I skied that day with Jacob, Whitecap's grooming ace, a Telluride refugee who had carpeted a shocking breadth of acreage overnight before meeting me to ski. He kept telling his friends from Colorado that they had to move here, he told me. The pace was slower, and he could afford to live. He'd given up finding anything affordable near Telluride, and had instead commuted in from a desert campervan colony hours away. He'd had enough, come back east, back home, with his campervan and his dog. He didn't see any reason to return to Colorado. Yes, the skiing there is amazing, but the skiing is good here, too, and the stresses of daily life had evaporated. He now lived in the hotel. His commute to the snowcat was a few dozen steps. This was a life that was pleasant, and sustainable. As Western mountain-town life became untenable, places like Big Snow Country, with reliable snow and lower costs for everything, would become more attractive to those who wanted to make skiing central to their lives, he said. I'm not saying you should move to Whitecap. But you should visit. Everyone should ski the Midwest at least once. Just to understand what it is, this machine that churns out so many of the nation's most passionate skiers. And when you do go, make sure Whitecap is on your tour.Podcast NotesOn Plumtree, IllinoisDziuban's ski career began at Plumtree, a 210-vertical-foot landfill bump in Illinois. Here's the 1978 trailmap:On the podcast, I said that I wasn't sure if the place was still operating. Its website states that the ski area is “closed for renovations,” and I believe that has been its status for at least as long as I've tracked season passes nationally (three seasons). I'm trying to confirm that. Even if it does re-open, it looks as though the place is just a residents' amenity for whatever gated community it sits in. Here's a bit more on the joint, per skibum.net:Former public area, Plumtree is now a private club for Lake Carroll property owners, guests, etc. Aging equipment, wide open bowls, decent place. Look up “typical skiing in the Midwest” and you'll find Plumtree Ski Area. Wish there were more Plumtrees open to the general public.On Magic MountainDziuban spent several years at Magic Mountain, Vermont. He was there from the mid-80s to the early ‘90s, a period that included the interlink with the lost Timber Ridge ski area on the backside of Glebe Mountain. Here's what they looked like connected:These days, skiers are still allowed to traverse from Magic over to “Timberside,” which is privately owned, and ski down. They have to find their own way back to Magic, however, as the Timber Ridge lifts are long gone.On the Wine HutFollow the trails skier's left of the Midway double chair, and you'll sweep past the Wine Hut on your way to the loading station. It's one of the Midwest's cooler après joints, though I'll admit that I did not sample the goods on the February Wednesday I stopped in.On the North Pole/South Pole doubleWhitecap is home to one of the most amazing lifts in America - an up-and-over Hall double that serves as two separate lifts - the North Pole double and the South Pole double. Skiers are not allowed to ride across the middle section, which soars more than 125 feet over the meadow between the two top stations - with no restraint bar. I snagged this video standing beneath the midsection:And here's a still pic from the valley floor - note the tower hoisted onto the steel lift:Here's a view looking from the North Pole side across the valley to the South Pole:Going up South Pole:On Whitecap's dormant triple chairA seemingly abandoned lift terminal sits on Whitecap's summit, the head of a skeleton that follows a liftline down the mountain. This lift, said Dziuban, is actually not dead yet. He's already fabricated some parts necessary to restore the 1991 CTEC triple to a functional state, as he explains in the podcast.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 31/100 in 2023, and number 417 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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This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Feb. 1. It dropped for free subscribers on Feb. 4. To receive future pods as soon as they're live and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoDavy Ratchford, Vice President and General Manager of Snowbasin Resort, UtahRecorded onJanuary 31, 2023About SnowbasinClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: The R. Earl Holding FamilyPass affiliations: Ikon Pass, Mountain CollectiveLocated in: Huntsville, UtahYear founded: 1940Closest neighboring ski areas: Nordic Valley (30 minutes), Powder Mountain (35 minutes), Woodward Park City (1:05), Utah Olympic Park (1:08), Park City (1:15), Deer Valley (1:15), Snowbird (1:15), Alta (1:20), Solitude (1:20), Brighton (1:25), Sundance (1:40), Cherry Peak (1:45), Beaver Mountain (2:00) – travel times vary considerably based upon weather and trafficBase elevation: 6,450 feetSummit elevation: 9,350 feetVertical drop: 2,900 feetSkiable Acres: 3,000Average annual snowfall: 300 inchesTrail count: 111Lift count: 12­­ (One 15-passenger tram, 2 eight-passenger gondolas, 2 six-packs, 2 high-speed quads, 2 triples, 1 ropetow, 2 carpets) – Snowbasin will add a third six-pack on an all-new line this summer (more on this below).Why I interviewed himFor 60 years it sat there, empty, enormous, unnoticed. Utah skiing was Park City and Alta; Snowbird in the ‘70s; Deer Valley in the ‘80s; sometimes Solitude and Brighton. No need to ski outside that powder pocket east of SLC: in 1995, an Alta lift ticket cost $25, and the area resorts frequently landed on ski magazine “least-crowded” lists.The November 2000 issue of Ski distilled Snowbasin's malaise:Though skiers were climbing the high ridgeline that overlooks the small city of Ogden as far back as the Thirties, Alta founder Alf Engen officially discovered Snowbasin in 1940. At that time the high, sunny basin was used for cattle range, but it was so overgrazed that eroded topsoil and bloated carcasses of dead cows were tainting Ogden's water supply. Working with the U.S. Forest Service, Ogden's town fathers decided that a ski resort would provide income and recreation while also safeguarding the water supply. A deal was struck with the ranch owner, and Snowbasin opened for business.In the 60 years since, the resort has struggled under five owners, including Vail-founder Pete Seibert, who owned it in the mid-Eighties. The problem was a lack of lodging. Snowbasin was too far from Salt Lake City to attract out-of-state skiers and too far from Ogden to use the city's aging railroad center as a resort base. Successive owners realized that to succeed, Snowbasin needed a base village, but building one from scratch is a costly proposition. So for half a century, the resort has remained the private powder stash of Ogden locals and the few lucky skiers who have followed rumors of deep snow and empty lifts up Ogden Canyon.In 1984, Earl Holding, an oil tycoon who had owned Sun Valley since 1978, purchased the resort from Seibert (process the fact that Snowbasin was once part of the Vail portfolio for a moment). For a long time, nothing much changed. Then came the 2002 Olympics. In a single offseason in 1998, the resort added two gondolas, a tram, and a high-speed quad (John Paul), along with the thousand-ish-acre Strawberry terrain pod. A new access road cut 13 miles off the drive from Salt Lake City. Glimmering base lodges rose from the earth.Still, Snowbasin languished. “But despite the recent addition of modern lifts, it has still failed to attract more than 100,000 skier visits the past two seasons,” Ski wrote in 2000, attributing this volume partly to “the fact that the Olympics, not today's lift ticket revenue, is the management's priority.” Holding, the magazine reported, was considering a bizarre name change for the resort to “Sun Valley.” As in, Sun Valley, Utah. Reminder: there was no social media in 2000.That's all context, to make this point: the Snowbasin that I'm writing about today – a glimmering end-of-the-road Ikon Pass jewel with a Jetsonian lift fleet – is not the Snowbasin we were destined to have. From backwater to baller in a generation. This is the template, like it or not, for the under-developed big-mountain West. Vail Mountain, Park City, Snowbird, Palisades Tahoe, Breckenridge, Steamboat: these places cannot accommodate a single additional skier. They're full. The best they can do now is redistribute skiers across the mountain and suck more people out of the base areas with higher-capacity lifts. But with record skier visits and the accelerating popularity of multi-mountain passes that concentrate more of them in fewer places, we're going to need relief valves. And soon.There are plenty more potential Snowbasins out there. Mountains with big acreage and big snowfall but underdeveloped lift and lodging infrastructure and various tiers of accessibility issues: White Pass, Mission Ridge, Silver Mountain, Montana Snowbowl, Great Divide, Discovery, Ski Apache, Angel Fire, Ski Santa Fe, Powder Mountain, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Loveland. There are dozens more.Snowbasin's story is singular and remarkable, a testament to invested owners and the power of media magnification to alter the fate of a place. But the mountain's tale is instructive as well, of how skiing can reorient itself around something other than our current version of snowy bunchball, the tendency for novice soccer players to disregard positions and swarm to wherever the ball moves. Snowbasin didn't matter and now it does. Who's next?What we talked aboutUtah's amazing endless 2022-23 snow season; an Irish fairytale; skiing Beaver Mountain in jeans; helping to establish Utah's Major League Soccer team and then leaving for the ski industry; “if you have a chance to raise your family in the mountains, you should do that”; the unique characteristic of a ski career that helps work-life balance; much love for the Vail Fam; the Holding family legacy; “Snowbasin is a gift to the world”; the family's commitment to keeping Snowbasin independent long-term; “they're going to put in the best possible things, all the time”; amazing lodges, bathrooms and all; Snowbasin's Olympic legacy and potential future involvement in the Games; breaking down the DeMoisy Express six-pack that will go up Strawberry this summer; what the new lift will mean for the Strawberry gondola; soccer fans versus ski fans; managing a resort in the era of knucklehead social media megaphones; “I've lost a lot of employees to guests”; taming the rumor machine; reflecting on the Middle Bowl lift upgrade; long-term upgrades for the Becker and Porcupine triples; Snowbasin's ambitious base-area redevelopment plan, including an all-inclusive Club Med, new lifts and terrain, and upgraded access road; “the amount of desire to own something here is huge”; what happens with parking once the mountain builds a village over it; the curse of easy access; breaking down the new beginner terrain and lifts that will accompany the village; whether future large-scale terrain expansion is possible; and leaving the Epic Pass for Ikon and Mountain Collective.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewLast month, Snowbasin announced that it will build the DeMoisy Express, a long-awaited six-pack that will run parallel to the Strawberry Gondola on a slightly shorter line, for the 2023-24 ski season. Here's where it will sit on the current trailmap (highlighted below):This will be Snowbasin's second six-pack in just two years, and it follows the resort's 2021 announcement of an ambitious base-area development plan, which will include new beginner terrain, several new lifts, a mixed-use pedestrian village, access-road improvements, and an all-inclusive Club Med resort. Here's a rendering of the reconfigured base at full build-out:Snowbasin, along with sister resort Sun Valley, also stalked off the Epic Pass last year, fleeing for the Mountain Collective and Ikon passes. “Because we're smart,” Ratchford half-joked when I asked him why the resorts left Epic after just three years. He framed the switch as an opportunity to expose the resorts to new skiers. Snowbasin surely will not be the last resort to change allegiances. Don't think big indies like Jackson Hole, Taos, and Revelstoke aren't listening when Vail calls, offering them a blank check to change jerseys.What I got wrongI had an on-the-fly moment where I mixed up the Wildcat Express six-pack and the Littlecat Express high-speed quad. I asked Ratchford how they were going to upgrade Little Cat (as suggested in the base-area redevelopment image above), when it was already a six-pack. Dumb stuff happens in the moment during these podcasts, and while I guess I could ask the robots to fix it, I'd rather just own the mistake and keep moving.Why you should ski SnowbasinI love skiing Alta and Snowbird, but I don't love skiing anywhere enough to endure the mass evacuation drill that is a Cottonwoods powder-day commute. Not when there's a place like Snowbasin where you can just, you know, pull into the parking lot and go skiing.What you'll find when you arrive is as good as anything you'll hunt down in U.S. skiing. Maybe not from a total snowfall perspective – though 300 inches is impressive anywhere outside of Utah – but from a lift-and-lodge infrastructure point of view. Four – soon to be five – high-speed chairlifts, a tram and two gondolas, and a couple old triple chairs that Ratchford tells me will be replaced fairly soon, and probably with high-speed quads. The lodges are legendary, palaces of excess and overbuild, welcome in an industry that makes Lunch-Table Death-Match a core piece of the experience. If you need to take your pet elephant to the bathroom, plug Snowbasin into your GPS – I assure you the stalls can accommodate them.But, really, you ski Snowbasin because Snowbasin is easy to get to and easy to access, with the Ikon Pass that most people reading this probably already have, and with terrain that's as good as just about anything else you're going to find in U.S. America.Podcast NotesOn Park City: Ratchford referred obliquely to the ownership change at Park City in 2014, saying, “if you know the history there…” Well, if you don't know the history there, longtime resort owner Powdr Corp made the biggest oopsie in the history of lift-served skiing when it, you know, forgot to renew its lease on the mountain. Vail, in what was the most coldblooded move in the history of lift-served skiing, installed itself as the new lessee in what I can imagine was a fit of cackling glee. It was amazing. You can read more about it here and here. If only The Storm had existed back then.On the Olympics: While I don't cover the Olympics at all (I completely ignored them last year, the first Winter Games in which The Storm existed), I do find their legacy at U.S. ski resorts interesting. Only five U.S. ski areas have hosted events: Whiteface (1980), Palisades Tahoe (1960), and, in 2002, Deer Valley, Park City, and Snowbasin. Ratchford and I talk a bit about this legacy, and the potential role of his resort in the upcoming 2030 or 2034 Games – Salt Lake City is bidding to host one or the other. Read more here.On megapasses: Snowbasin has been all over the place with megapasses. Here's its history, as best I can determine:* 2013: Snowbasin joins the Powder Alliance reciprocal coalition (it is unclear when Snowbasin left this coalition)* 2017: Snowbasin joins Mountain Collective for 2017-18 ski season* 2019: Snowbasin joins Epic Pass, leaves Mountain Collective for 2019-20 ski season* 2022: Snowbasin leaves Epic Pass, re-joins Mountain Collective and joins Ikon Pass for 2022-23 ski seasonThe Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 8/100 in 2023, and number 394 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.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Jan. 13. It dropped for free subscribers on Jan. 16. To receive future pods as soon as they're live and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoJim van Löben Sels, General Manager of Mt. Spokane, WashingtonRecorded onJanuary 9, 2023About Mt. SpokaneClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Mt. Spokane 2000, a nonprofit groupPass affiliations: Freedom Pass – 3 days each at these 20 ski areasReciprocal partners: 3 days each at Mt. Ashland, Mount Bohemia, Great Divide, Loup Loup, Lee Canyon, Snow King, White Pass, Ski CooperLocated in: Mt. Spokane State Park, WashingtonYear opened: 1938Closest neighboring ski areas: 49 Degrees North (1 hour, 45 minutes), Silver Mountain (1 hour, 45 minutes), Schweitzer (2 hours, 10 minutes) – travel times may vary considerably in winterBase elevation: 3,818 feetSummit elevation: 5,889 feetVertical drop: 2,071 feetSkiable Acres: 1,704Average annual snowfall: 300 inchesTrail count: 52 (15% advanced/expert, 62% intermediate, 23% beginner)Lift count: 7­­ (1 triple, 5 doubles, 1 carpet)Why I interviewed himPerception is a funny thing. In my Michigan-anchored teenage ski days any bump rolling more than one chairlift uphill seemed impossibly complex and interesting. Caberfae (200 acres), Crystal (103), Shanty Creek (80), and Nub's Nob (248 acres today, much smaller at the time) hit as vast and interesting worlds. That set my bar low. It's stayed there. Living now within two and a half hours of a dozen thousand-plus-footers feels extraordinary. In less than an instant I can be there, lost in it. Teleportation by minivan.Go west and they think different. By the millions skiers pound up I-70 through an Eisenhower Tunnel framed by Loveland, to ski over the pass. Breck, Keystone, Copper, A-Basin, Vail, Beaver Creek – all amazing. But Loveland covers 1,800 acres standing on 2,210 vertical feet – how many Colorado tourists have never touched the place? How many locals?It seems skiers often confuse size with infrastructure. Loveland has one high-speed chairlift. Beaver Creek has 13. But the ski area's footprint is only 282 acres larger than Loveland's. Are fast lift rides worth an extra 50 miles of interstate evacuation drills? It seems that, for many people, they are.We could repeat that template all over the West. But Washington is the focus today. And Mt. Spokane. At 1,704 acres, it's larger than White Pass (1,402 acres), Stevens Pass (1,125), or Mt. Baker (1,000), and just a touch smaller than Summit at Snoqualmie (1,996). But outside of Spokane (metro population, approximately 600,000), who skis it? Pretty much no one.Why is that? Maybe it's the lift fleet, anchored by five centerpole Riblet doubles built between 1956(!) and 1977. Maybe it's the ski area's absence from the larger megapasses. Maybe it's proximity to 2,900-acre Schweitzer and its four high-speed lifts. Probably it's a little bit of each those things.Which is fine. People can ski wherever they want. But what is this place, lodged in the wilderness just an hour north of Washington's second-largest city? And why hadn't I heard of it until I made it my job to hear about everyplace? And how is Lift 1 spinning into its 67th winter? There just wasn't a lot of information out there about Mt. Spokane. And part of The Storm's mission is to seek these places out and figure out what the hell is going on. And so here you go.What we talked aboutFully staffed and ready to roll in 2023; night skiing; what happened when Mt. Spokane shifted from a five-day operating week to a seven-day one; a winding career path that involved sheep shearing, Ski Patrol at Bear Valley, running a winery, and ultimately taking over Mt. Spokane; the family ski routine; entering the ski industry in the maw of Covid; life is like Lombard Street; Spokane's long-term year-round business potential; who owns and runs Mt. Spokane; why and how the ski area switched from a private ownership model to a not-for-profit model; looking to other nonprofit ski areas for inspiration; a plan to replace Spokane's ancient lift fleet and why they will likely stick with fixed-grip chairlifts; the Skytrac-Riblet hybrid solution; sourcing parts for a 67-year-old chairlift; how much of Lift 1 is still original parts; which lift the mountain will replace first, what it will replace it with, and when; the virtues of Skytrac lifts; parking; the Day-1-on-the-job problem that changed how Jim runs the mountain; why Northwood lift was down for part of January; what it took to bring the Northwood expansion online and how it changed the mountain; whether future expansions are possible; Nordic opportunities; working with Washington State Parks, upon whose land the ski area sits, and how that compares to the U.S. Forest Service; whether Mt. Spokane could ever introduce snowmaking; how eastern Washington snow differs from what falls on the west side of the state; glading is harder than you think; where we could see more glades on the mountain; the evolution of Spokane's beginner terrain; why Mt. Spokane tore out its tubing lanes; expanding parking; which buildings could be updated or replaced and when; whether we could ever see lodging at the mountain; why the mountain sets its top lift ticket price at $75; why Mt. Spokane joined Freedom Pass; exploring the mountain's reciprocal pass partnerships and whether that network will continue to grow; and the possibility of joining the Indy Pass.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewIn August, Troy Hawks, the marketing mastermind at Sunlight and the administrator of the Freedom Pass, emailed to tell me that Mt. Spokane was joining the Freedom Pass. I asked him to connect me with the ski area's marketing team for some context on why they joined (which I included in this story). Then I asked if Jim would like to join me on the podcast. And he did.That's the straight answer. But Mt. Spokane fits this very interesting profile that matches that of many ski areas across the country: a nonprofit community hill with dated infrastructure and proximity to larger resorts that's been pushed to the brink not of insolvency but doors-bursting capacity despite successive waves of macro-challenges, including Covid and EpKon Mania. Weren't these places supposed to be toast? As a proxy for the health of independents nationwide, Mt. Spokane seemed like as good a place as any to check in.There's another interesting problem here: what are you going to do with a Riblet double built in 1956? The thing is gorgeous, tapering low and elegant up the hillside, a machine with stories to tell. But machines don't last forever, and new ones cost more than some whole ski areas. Mt. Spokane also has no snowmaking and dated lodges and too little parking. Will it modernize? If so, how? Does it need to? What is that blend of funk and shine that will ensure a mountain's future without costing its soul?In this way, too, Mt. Spokane echoes the story of contemporary independent American skiing: how, and how much, to update the bump? Jim, many will be happy to learn, has no ambitions of transforming Mt. Spokane into Schweitzer Jr. But he does have a vision and a plan, a way to make the mountain a little less 1950s and a little more 2020s. And he lays it all out in a matter-of-fact way that anyone who loves skiing will appreciate.Questions I wish I'd askedI'm so confused by Mt. Spokane's trailmap. Older versions show the Hidden Treasure area flanking the main face:While new versions portray Hidden Treasure as a distinct peak. Again:Meanwhile, Google Maps doesn't really line up with what I'm seeing above:While I love the aesthetic of Mt. Spokane's trailmap, it seems wildly out of scale and oddly cut off at the bottom of Hidden Treasure. The meanings of the various arrows and the flow of the mountain aren't entirely clear to me either.Really, this is more a problem of experience and immersion than anything I can learn through a knowledge transfer. A smart professor made this point in journalism school: go there. I really should be skiing these places before I do these interviews, and for a long time, I wouldn't record a podcast about a ski area I hadn't visited. But I realized, a year and a half in, that that would be impractical if I wanted to keep banging these things out, particularly as I reached farther into the western hinterlands. Sometimes I have to do the best I can with whatever's out there, and what's out there can be confusing as hell. So I guess I just need to go ski it to figure it out.What I got wrong* I intimated that Gunstock was a nonprofit ski area, but that is not the case. The mountain contributes revenue to its owner, Belknap County, each season.* I stated that Mt. Spokane didn't have any beginner surface lifts. In fact, it has a carpet lift.* Jim and I discussed whether Vista Cruiser was the longest contiguously operating chairlift in the United States. It's not – Hemlock has been serving Boyne Mountain, Michigan, since 1948. It's a double that was converted from a single that originally served Sun Valley as America's first chairlift in the 1930s. Still, Vista Cruiser may be the most intact 1950s vintage lift in America. I really don't know, and these things can be very hard to verify what with all the forgotten upgrades over the years, but it really doesn't matter: a 67-year-old chairlift is a hell of an impressive thing in any context.* While discussing reciprocal agreements, I said, rather hilariously, that Mt. Ashland was “right there in Oregon.” The ski area is, in fact, an 11-hour drive from Mt. Spokane. I was vaguely aware of how dumb this was as I said it, but you must remember that I grew up in the Midwest, meaning an 11-hour drive is like going out to the mailbox.Why you should ski Mt. SpokaneLet's start here:How many 2,000-vertical-foot mountains post those kind of rack rates? A few, but fewer each year. And if you happen to have a season pass to any other Freedom Pass ski area, you can cash in one of your Mt. Spokane lift tickets as you're floating through.As for the skiing itself, I can only speculate. It looks like typical PNW wide-open: wide runs, big treed meadows, bowls, glades all over. Three hundred inches per winter to open it all up. I mean there's really not much else that's necessary on my have-a-good-time checklist.Podcast Notes* Jim mentioned that Schweitzer was working on adding parking. More details on their plan to plug 1,400 more spaces into the mountain here.* I was shocked when Jim said that Mt. Spokane's $75 lift tickets ($59 midweek) were the second-most expensive in the region after Schweitzer's, which run $110 for a full-day adult pass. But he's correct: 49 Degrees North runs $72 on weekends and holidays and $49 midweek. Silver Mountain is $71 on weekends (but $65 midweek). And Lookout Pass is $66 on weekends and $55 midweek. I guess the memo about $250 lift tickets hasn't made its way up I-90 just yet.* The best way to support Mt. Spokane, which is a nonprofit ski area, is to go buy a lift ticket. But you can also donate here.* Here's a bit more Mt. Spokane history.* And some stoke Brah:The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 4/100 in 2023, and number 390 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

Intro/Outro: Man on the Silver Mountain by Rainbow (requested by William)1. Everybody's Talkin' by Harry Nilsson (requested by Gene)2. Aerials by System of a Down (requested by Sarah)3. Broken Bones by Kaleo (requested by Andrew)4. Iko Iko by The Dixie Cups (requested by Ollie)5. The Lion the Beast the Beat by Grace Potter & the Nocturnals (requested by Jessica)

A roar echoes through the caverns of Silver Mountain as Clan Bearskull fights to survive against cultists and living flames as they continue to look for Ashfineer's Fang. Dungeon Master - JVD Nexel Greenleaf - Kyle Vic Crixson III  Evan the Great Kaladir - Sean Hogar Keplar - Wes Gorg - Joe

Within the raging volcano, Clan Bearskull faces the hazards of Silver Mountain's tunnel system. As they search for Ashfineer's fang, cultists surround them on all sides. Dungeon Master - JVD Nexel Greenleaf - Kyle Vic Crixson III  Evan the Great Kaladir - Sean Hogar Keplar - Wes Gorg - Joe

To support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Oct. 10. Free subscribers got it on Oct. 13. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoKen Rider, general manager of Brundage Mountain, IdahoRecorded onOct. 3, 2022About BrundageClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Brundage Mountain Holdings LLC, which Rider describes as a collection of “Idaho families.”Pass affiliations: Indy PassReciprocal pass partners – view full list here:* 5 days at Red Lodge* 4 days at Diamond Peak* 3 days each at Loveland, Monarch, Ski Cooper, Sunlight, Mt. Bohemia, Snow King, Mt. Hood Meadows, Beaver Mountain* 2 days at Homewood* Limited tickets available at Powder Mountain* Half off lift tickets at AltaLocated in: McCall, IdahoClosest neighboring ski areas: Little Ski Hill (10 minutes), Tamarack (47 minutes)Base elevation: 5,882 feetSummit elevation: 7,803 feet at SargentsVertical drop: 1,920 feetSkiable Acres: 1,920 acresAverage annual snowfall: 320 inchesTrail count: 70 (46% black, 33% intermediate, 21% beginner)Lift count: 6 (1 high-speed quad, 4 triples, 1 surface lift - view Lift Blog's of inventory of Brundage's lift fleet)Uphill capacity: 7,900 skiers per hourWhy I interviewed himIn April, I put together a list of 11 ski areas offering bomber reciprocal season pass benefits. Since the passes I chose are inexpensive and offer free days at up to 50 partners, they've become a bit of a cheat code for the adventure set ready to break from (or supplement) Epic or Ikon - even for skiers who live nowhere near the mountain. With that wink-wink in mind, I contacted each ski area to ask whether they mailed season passes. Brundage's answer led to an email exchange that led to this podcast.Some version of that story is how around half of Storm Skiing Podcasts are booked, but the timing was fortuitous. I'd been meaning to reach out anyway. What was this big mountain with big snow that was an Indy Pass favorite? How does a place that's larger than Aspen Mountain and Aspen Highlands combined, that's roughly the size of Beaver Creek or Deer Valley, that gets as much snow as Winter Park, stand so unassuming on the national scene? Yes, the place only has one high-speed lift and no on-slope lodging. It's far off any interstate and not particularly close to any large cities. But it's up the road from a great resort town (McCall), and close enough to supernova-ing Boise to catch some of the ambient heat.Who are you, Brundage? And why are you so shy about it? It was time to talk.What we talked aboutDetermining this year's opening date; snowmaking at Eldora; going from grad school to $10-an-hour peddling Copper Mountain lift tickets; working at heyday Intrawest; Tamarack in its Wild West 2004 grand opening; Tamarack's decline and current renaissance; Grand Targhee; McCall 101; the Little Ski Hill; how mountain-town pricing pressures are hitting Idaho; wage bumps and creative employee housing at Brundage; modernizing Brundage; the ski area's ownership history and the group that purchased it two years ago; Brundage's aggressive, expansive master plan; the Temptation Knob beginner/intermediate pod and what sort of lifts we could see there; Brundage's 320 average annual inches of snow falls at its base; potential lifts up Hidden Valley and Sargents; whether the Centennial triple could make its way to another part of the mountain; potential expansion off the East Side/backside of Brundage; how large Brundage could become if the master plan is fully built out; whether Brundage could be or wants to be a national destination; whether Bluebird Express could ever be upgraded to a six-pack; the evolution of BEARTOPIA!!!; Brundage's snowmaking capabilities, potential, and water source; the incoming new lodge; fixing the flow from parking lot to lodge to rentals to ski school; finally slopeside housing; the tension between the keep-it-wild crowd and people who want to sleep on the mountain; season passes; why Brundage was an inaugural Indy Pass member; the percentage of Brundage skier visits that are Indy and whether the pass is causing peak-period crowding; why the ski area introduced Indy Pass blackouts last year; and why Brundage continues to offer reciprocal lift ticket partnerships (for now).                Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewBrundage is one of many indie resorts across the West that are leveling up. Under an Idaho-strong group that took ownership a few years ago, the ski area is reworking its master plan. The scale of this thing is pretty incredible. Observe:Compare that to the trailmap above. The new plan would add:* A new beginner/intermediate pod on Temptation Knob, adjacent to the existing Beartopia pod. Rider told me that he foresees a high-speed quad rising up the knob's 650-ish vertical feet and a surface lift off the backside.* A fixed-grip quad serving Hidden Valley from the base area.* A pair of lifts serving Sargents, which is currently on the trailmap as unpatrolled terrain. Rider said that he imagines both Sargents and Wayback as fixed-grip doubles or quads.* Two large intermediate/beginner pods off the backside, both likely served by fixed-grip quads – labelled “Lift G” and “Eastside” on the map.If completed, these expansions would vault Brundage into Bogus Basin/Sun Valley territory size-wise, but there's a lot more happening here: a new lodge that isn't 700 steps above the parking lot, on-site residences, extensive (and creative) employee housing, serious snowmaking investments, and much more.Brundage is also a bit of a barnstormer, among the top two Indy Pass resorts in the West every year since launch. New England, of course, is Indy ground zero, but this year Brundage finished 10th in redemptions out of 82 Indy Pass partners. The only Western resort to top out higher was Utah A-bomb Powder Mountain.That really surprised me. My guess would have been Indy's big Washington ski areas – Mission Ridge, White Pass, 49 Degrees North – and Silver Mountain plopped dead off Interstate 90 an hour east of Spokane. Yes, the Tamarack/Brundage combo – the mountains sit less than an hour apart – is one of Indy's best, but the McCall Miracle was a top draw even before Tamarack joined in 2020.Brundage is telling a good story, and it's getting better. Now was a great time for a check-in.Questions I wish I'd askedI meant to ask about the Rainbow Fire, which hit Brundage last month but ended up leaving minimal damage. An article on the resort's website summarizes the whole ordeal pretty well anyway:Just five days after lightning sparked a fire at the top of Brundage Mountain, the Forest Service has declared the Rainbow Fire to be officially under control.The Rainbow Fire was sparked by lightning during a thunderstorm event on the evening of Wednesday, September 7 and was immediately visible from both McCall and New Meadows. Initial attack efforts kept the fire from spreading beyond the upper Hidden Valley area, which is located to the north of Brundage Mountain's main front side runs.Smokejumpers and engine crews engaged with the fire the first night, and an aerial assault from helicopters and scoopers doused the flames with water and applied fire retardant at the top of Brundage Mountain the following day.Ground crews circled the fire zone with hoses and worked through the weekend to monitor the perimeter and put out hot spots. The fire was contained to an area of less than five acres.“The Brundage Mountain team would, once again, like to thank the smokejumpers, firefighters and fire managers who sprung into action to quickly control this fire,” says Brundage Mountain General Manager, Ken Rider. “Wednesday night's lightning event resulted in a number of new fire starts on the Payette National Forest. The efforts to contain and control those new fires, while continuing to make progress on larger, existing fires in the area, speaks to the skill, dedication and hard work of our friends at the Payette National Forest and partner organizations like SITPA, the BLM and Lone Peak Fire Department from Utah.”Brundage Mountain crews will be assessing the Rainbow Fire scar but the impacts on skiers and riders are expected to be minimal.“The torching and visible flames the first night of this fire were alarming,” added Rider. “We are beyond grateful that it will have such a minor impact on our overall operations and on the skiing and riding public.”What I got wrongI say in the intro that Rider began his ski career at Intrawest. As we discuss in the conversation, his first ski job was actually at Eldora. I also asked Rider about going to the “new ski state” of Idaho when he went to work at Tamarack – I meant to say “new-to-you ski state,” since Rider was moving there from Colorado. I also have it stuck in my head that Beaver Creek, opened in 1980, was the last major ski resort developed in the U.S. prior to Tamarack in 2004, but Rider correctly reminded me that it was Deer Valley, in 1981. One could also argue for Yellowstone Club (1997), Mount Bohemia (2000), Silverton (2001), or even Whitetail (1991). But those all have some sort of asterisk: too oligarchy, too minimalist, too borderline-backcountryish, too Pennsylvania. The NSAA keeps a list here, though it's missing quite a few ski areas (Wolf Creek), and has a bunch that haven't operated in a while (Gateway, New Hampshire; Elk Ridge, Arizona).Why you should ski BrundageIf you're reading this far down the page then you don't need much of a nudge to pencil “ski 2,000-acre, 2,000-foot-vertical-drop ski area with 300-plus inches of snow” into your winter calendar. The skiing, like most Idaho skiing, is pretty great. But I always feel a sense of urgency when describing ski areas that are poised to unfold like a pop-up book into something far larger. It's only going to take a few more seasons of Epic and Ikon mountains disgorging the Epkonotron onto their slopes to turbocharge the Skipass Hack-O-Matic 5000. Savvy vacationers are going to figure out the McCall + a growing Brundage + a growing Tamarack = a-good-ski-vacation-without-feeling-as-though-you're-re-enacting-the-invasion-of-Normandy equation at some point.Brundage will never be Park City or Palisades Tahoe. But it will get bigger and better and busier than it is today. So go now, while their longest lift is still a fixed-grip triple crawling 1,653 vertical feet up the incline, over hillocks and pine forests and with the lakes placid in the distance. Enjoy the motion in the midst of stillness, the big mountain with the little-mountain vibe and prices and energy. And look around and imagine what it will one day be.Podcast notesRider and I discussed the Beartopia map briefly. It's a pretty brilliant rework of Brundage's beginner corner. If you don't have kids, perhaps you don't agree. But I recently sat beside my 5-year-old for a flight across the Atlantic, during which time he became obsessed with the route map displayed on the seatback monitor. The touchscreen offered two options: the regular map or the “kids' map.” The kids' map was nothing more than the regular map with some skunks and deer and bears superimposed over the atlas. And yet so extreme was his delight that you would have thought I had just invented cookie burgers. Yes Son it's just like a hamburger but instead of meat there's a giant cookie in there and yes of course you can have seven of them.Anyway, here's the map:Rider at one point compares the Brundage baselodge to “a steamship on the Mississippi Delta.” It was not meant to be a compliment. The lodge, like those antique riverboats, is staggered, boxy, imposing. An anachronism in our architecture-at-peace-with-the-earth moment. Still, as an avid reader of Twain, I found the comparison interesting, a literary-historic reference in a podcast about an Idaho ski area. Those sorts of thinkers, fecund and surprising, are the sorts of folks I want running my local.I also mentioned in the intro that Brundage is my third Idaho podcast this year. In January, I went deep on the Tamarack story with the resort's president, Scott Turlington:Then, this summer, I chatted with Bogus Basin General Manager Brad Wilson:The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 109/100 in 2022, and number 355 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.The Storm is exploring the world of lift-served skiing all year long. Join us.Like The Storm? 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Pax leads the charge at the base of Silver Mountain. As they collide with the fire cult forces, fire rains down on the battlefield! Will Clan Bearskull survive? Dungeon Master - JVD Nexel Greenleaf - Kyle Vic Crixson III  Evan the Great Kaladir - Sean Hogar Keplar - Wes Gorg - Joe

Rolf was er vroeg bij. Al sinds zijn 18e handelt hij in goud en zilver. Wat begon als een muntenverzameling en hobby liep snel uit de hand en hij ontgroeide het ouderlijk huis dan ook al vlug. Zijn bedrijf The Silver Mountain werd opgericht en Rolf bedient hiermee zijn klanten sinds 2008 met edelmetaal. In de beginfase richtte hij zich vooral op de handel in zilver omdat dat wat goedkoper was en er daar ook nog niks voor bestond in Nederland. The Silver Mountain introduceerde dan ook de zilveren beleggingsmunten op de Nederlandse markt.https://www.zowordjesteenrijk.nl/goudenzilverHandel in edelmetaal is nu actueler dan ooit in deze tijden van ongekende inflatie, oorlog en onzekerheid. Het bezit van edelmetaal beschermt je deels tegen de gevolgen hiervan en het waardeverlies van je vermogen. In deze aflevering hoor jij onder andere de verschillen en overeenkomsten tussen goud en zilver, de verschillende toepassingen naast ‘store of value' en krijg je handige tips voor degenen die edelmetaal willen kopen. Na afloop weet je dat het hebben van een deel van je vermogen in edelmetaal een verstandige keuze is. Je kan het trouwens ook laten opslaan zodat je het niet zelf hoeft te begraven onder het hondenhok. Een stukje waarde behoud bieden wij je ook; Namelijk een mooie korting op je aanschaf bij The Silver Mountain. Laat je gegevens achter via de site en je ontvangt een kortingscode waarmee je je bestelling gratis kan verzenden. Ook hebben wij een aantal catalogi van The Silver Mountain die we je graag opsturen.https://www.zowordjesteenrijk.nl/goudenzilver--Er is in binnenkort weer een 3-daags live retreat waar jij de basis van jouw kennis en succes kan leggen. Meer informatie en reserveer je plek: https://www.vrijheid-vastgoed.nl/vastgoedretreatOOK VASTGOEDBELEGGER WORDEN?Wil je ook graag de vrijheid hebben en vastgoedbelegger worden? Vastgoed is een erg mooi middel wat daarvoor kan zorgen vanwege de maandelijkse cashflow en omdat het inflatieproof is. Maar misschien weet je niet zeker of vastgoed wel bij je past...? Wij van Vrijheid Vastgoed kunnen je helpen bij het aankopen en verhuren van beleggingsvastgoed en helpen al meer dan 1000 Nederlanders daarbij. Dit doen we onder andere met een online cursus en live retreats van 3 dagen. Een goede eerste stap kan het inplannen van een strategiegesprek met iemand uit ons team zijn. Hierin gaan we samen met jou kijken wat je doelen zijn, of vastgoed bij je past, we maken een plan en je kan al jouw vragen stellen.Klinkt goed? Ga dan nu naar: https://www.vrijheid-vastgoed.nl/gratisgesprekBezoek de website van Vrijheid Vastgoed; Jouw sleutel naar vrijheid:https://www.vrijheidvastgoed.nlLaat je ons weten wat je van de podcast vond? We maken deze gratis content met liefde voor je, maar een duimpje omhoog, comments, een review of een share kunnen we heel erg waarderen en helpt ons om Nederland het "rijkste" land van de wereld te maken! Vergeet niet te abonneren om geen enkele aflevering te missen! Deel de podcast zeker ook met familie, vrienden en collega's.Kijk hier voor mijn NIEUWE gratis e-book over vastgoed en inflatie: https://www.vrijheid-vastgoed.nl/inflatieIn "Zo word je steenrijk!" wordt geld bespreekbaar en begrijpelijk gemaakt. Bekende en minder bekende Nederlanders praten open over geld, passie(f) inkomen, financiële vrijheid, diverse beleggingen, mindset en geluk. Martijn ontdekt wat volgens zijn gasten de beste investeringen en grootste geheimen zijn. Wat hadden Martijn en zijn gasten graag op school of van hun ouders geleerd over geld? Maakt geld nou echt gelukkig? Wat zijn praktische tips die jij in je eigen leven kan toepassen? Hoe kan je anderen helpen als je vermogen hebt en de wereld een stukje mooier maken?Meer over Zo word je steenrijk vind je op https://www.instagram.com/vrijheidvastgoed & https://www.zowordjesteenrijk.nlContact: info@vrijheidvastgoed.nlDisclaimer: Deze podcast is bedoeld ter entertainment en inspiratie. Uitspraken van Martijn en zijn gasten kunnen niet gezien worden als financieel advies. Je bent zelf verantwoordelijk voor je investeringen. Informeer je goed en beleg nooit met geld wat je niet kan missen.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Welcome back creepy kitties! Jackie is telling Melissa about survivor Rebecca Hurlen Patano, who survived the Silver Mountain Avalanches in 2020. If you missed Part 1 of this story make sure to check it out! Stay safe and spooky.    https://mountainculturegroup.com/surviving-an-avalanche-at-my-home-ski-resort/

Hello hell cats! On this episode of Eww! That's Creepy, the twins will be discussing the double avalanches at Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg, Idaho. First, Melissa will start by telling Jackie the survival story of Ken Scott, an expert skier who was buried in both avalanches. Although this event was a tragedy for all, Ken's survival and life after trauma are truly an inspiration!        https://mountainjournal.org/when-getting-saved-from-an-avalanche-is-just-the-beginning https://mountainjournal.org/how-i-survived-two-consecutive-avalanches https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7872319/Third-body-dragged-snow-three-avalanches-hit-Idaho-resort.html https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/remembering-deadly-silver-mountain-avalanche-january-2020/293-9375c5cc-5b67-4ec8-b918-311815ff591d

The Deep Purple Podcast Show Notes Episode #129 October 4, 2021 Rainbow - On Stage Subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Anchor.fm, Breaker, PodBean, RadioPublic, Amazon Music, or search in your favorite podcatcher! How To Support Our Show: Leave us a 5-Star Review on Apple Podcasts Buy Merch at Our Etsy Store! Become a Patron on Patreon Donate on Paypal (Donate one time or click “make this a monthly donation” box) Thanks to Our Executive Level Patrons: Social Media Update: Deep Dive Podcast Network Lead up to the Album: Personnel: Bass – Jimmy Bain Drums – Cozy Powell Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore Keyboards – Tony Carey Vocals – Ronnie James Dio Technical: Producer – Martin Birch Management – Bruce Payne Album Art & Booklet Review Art Direction – Fin Costello Design – Ken Anderson Photography By – Dieter Zill* Photography By – Fin Costello Photography By – Watal Asanuma Photography By – Watanabe Thanks to Our Core Level Patrons: Album Tracks: Side One: Intro: Over the Rainbow Nuremberg 28 September 1976 (first 1:03) Munich 29 September 1976 (remainder of the song) Kill The King Nuremberg 28 September 1976 (first 1:03) Munich 29 September 1976 (remainder of the song) Man on the Silver Mountain Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Afternoon Show) Blues Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Evening Show) Starstruck Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Evening Show) Man on the Silver Mountain reprise? Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Afternoon Show) Side Two: Catch The Rainbow Osaka 9 December 1976 Side Three: Mistreated Cologne 25 September 1976 Side Four: Sixteenth Century Greensleeves Tokyo 16 December 1976 (Evening Show) Still I'm Sad Nuernberg 28 September 1976 Thanks To Our Foundation Level Patrons: For Further Information: Deep Purple and Rainbow 1968-79: Every album, every song (On Track) by Steve Pilkington Listener Mail/Comments Comments about the show? Things you'd like us to cover? We'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at info@deeppurplepodcast.com or @ us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

The Fellowship goes for a Long Journey   On this episode we learn about Orc Sizes, Lean Toos, Johans Past, and how to hide trains.   You can send questions to apairofdicelost@gmail.com or @apairofdicelost on twitter. Music: Behind the Sword, by Alexander Nakarada (c) Copyright 2017 licensed under a Creative Commons (4.0) license https://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com/track/behind-the-sword-2

On the next stop of the hemp tour, we stop in to see Morris Beegle in Fort Collins, Co. He is the founder of the NoCo Hemp Expo, as well as a bunch of other hemp product businesses, including Silver Mountain Hemp Guitars.  

Drew and Will talk about the weekend in AHE. Interview with Ryder Leblond included!

There is something more to say! This week we explore one of Poison's biggest hits, talk about some of their haters, celebrate big girls, and defend CC Deville! We give the song of the episode a listen, talk about the 1991 VMAs, and listen to Steel Panther's "Fat Girls", Poison's "Home (Bret's Story)" from their Hollyweird record, Bret Michaels' single "You Know You Want It" and finish things off with Rainbow "Man on the Silver Mountain". Bring a towel! Watch video of our discussion, as well as the video clips and pictures we reference on the show along with us, on Patreon! Like Wet Tee Shirt Podcast on Facebook Follow Wet Tee Shirt Podcast on Twitter Follow Wet Tee Shirt Podcast on Instagram Wet Tee Shirt Podcast Merch via Spreadshirt! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wetteeshirtpodcast/support

We're headed to the ski fields of Idaho . At the beginning of Spring, we had our first family ski experience at three ski resorts in Northern Idaho: Schweitzer Mountain, Lookout Pass, and Silver Mountain . It was one of our most memorable family vacations for the adventure, the beauty and the chance to bond together as a family. We share the joys, intensities, and lessons learned during these 5 days of skiing.  Full Show notes: https://www.ytravelblog.com/ski-idaho-podcast

Jessica starts off with some black history celebrations talking about the accomplishments of Eleanor Barrow Chase, the first woman of color appointed to the board of trustees for both EWU and Whitworth college. Matt brushes on Washington House Bill 1084, a climate initiative aimed at reducing carbon footprint by moving to high-efficiency electric hot water and HVAC. Spokane Market update! Active listings increase, fast inventory is the new term, not low inventory, more homes expected to appear in March/April. Jessica covers tips on filling out form 17 (required by all sellers) and how to best protect sellers; 1. Check a box on every line, feel free to use the box “I don't know”, 2. If there is an asterisk, you must explain, 3. Add extra paper for longer responses if needed, 4. Disclose all that you know, do not hide anything, include the good, the bad, and the ugly. Snow hits Spokane and Matt talks about his favorite XC and DH skiing areas. Nordic: Mt Spokane trails are phenomenal, Schweitzer, 4th of July Pass, and Lookout Pass also have great Nordic options. Downhill: Mt Spokane, Lookout Pass, Silver Mountain, and Schweitzer Mountain. Get that POW! Skiing resources; Downhill Slopes: https://www.visitspokane.com/things-to-do/recreation/ski-snowboard/ Mt Spokane Nordic; https://www.spokanenordic.org/

“Look inside of yourself, you might see someone you don’t know…” – DIO.  Anytime someone utters the name “Ronnie James Dio”, almost immediately one is transported to another dimension ruled by magic and fantasy; a place where wizards conjure spells and help angels to protect the castle from the dragons of the realm with clean tigers and shiny diamonds. “Ride the carousel and cast a magic spell…” – Rainbow.  Throughout his career, whether it was with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath or his solo band, RONNIE JAMES DIO always supplied a generous dosage of magic, mysticism, and fantastical medieval imagery to Metal, describing (with sublimely, diametrically opposed metaphors) the mysteries and lessons of life that we must face, like dragons that must be slain and conquered in order for the kingdom to survive and thrive. “So, bring an exorcist, a wizard and The Holy Ghost...” - Black Sabbath. Call your D&D friend down at the Help Desk and order some more relaxer, crank up the black lights, grab your sword and a charm blessed by a virtuous witch and JOIN US as we sample the catalogue of one of the most powerful, distinctive, and legendary voices in the whole of the realm of the Kingdom of Metal. HAIL to Ronnie James Dio! Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episodeMetal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merchand kindly leave us a review and/or rating on the iTunes/Apple Podcasts - Spotify or your favorite Podcast appListen on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Google Play or wherever you get your Podcasts.Follow us on the Socials:Facebook - Instagram - TwitterEmail: metalnerdery@gmail.com Show Notes:(00:00): – Ron’s doing the intro LIVE from the Rib Lounge / The most magically favorite Metal ICON in all of Metaldom:  RJD (Ronnie James Dio was a #BLESSING!! #HAIL and #R.I.P. to one of the most powerful voices in all of Metaldom) / He brought #Mysticism #Wizards #Castles # Magic and #Dungeons & #Dragons to #Metal (#cleantigers and #shinydiamonds) #onmicburp / The gradual refinement of Ronnie’s sound from Elf through Rainbow, Black Sabbath and through to his solo career with Dio. / ***Check out Sam Dunn’s (#samdunn #tellyouwhat #psilocybin #rub “Metal Evolution” series and “Metal:  A Headbanger’s Journey”)               (05:17): - #itllbethere / ELF – Hoochie Koochie Lady (with a #tangentional shoutout to #cheers and #women that are #handsome which means they used to jam with some dudes):  can you hear all that early vocal potential? / Ronnie’s Roots (old school doo-wop style…very un-metal; albeit tangentionally related) / Don’t leave out James! / Dio’s age (that was always weird…why was it a mystery?) / 05/16/2010 (Relaxer sub bunker under the original Metal Nerdery Under Construction studios) / 07/10/1942 (You’ve gotta try “Padavona’s Pasta”; Milley HIGHLY recommends it!) / #dontdenythepowerof #RJD / Holy Diver (#perfectaccidents and #divineintervention)(12:00): – Padavona’s granny was a forward-thinking woman / a quick plug from Milley regarding his new pasta line coming out this fall!! #diolini #postcovid #saladbar #tour #QreatorOwnPasta Mental Linquine Southeastern Tour /  #R.I.P. #WKLS / Rainbow – Man on the Silver Mountain (#backwagon #backtracking not to be confused with #backshadowing):  The “starting point” for many of us (and also a tangentional shoutout to #DeepPurple and #ritchieblackmore) / Stargazer (***RAINBOW RISING = Future Album Dive***):  #bolth #dreamtheater and #metallica covered #stargazer It has a killer #stonervibe (NOBODY ELSE sounds like RJD) / Run with the Wolf (There’s a hole in the sky…#reverse #backshadowing #reverseshadowing) / From Rainbow to Black Sabbath:  Children of the Sea (#liveevil edition.  Get your #mistymorning #here from #thisguy) /*** HAIL to #tenaciousD for giving so much attention to the power of Ronnie James Dio! *** Neon Knights (#killeropener) / a moment of our best “Ozzy” impressions (Heaven and Hell?  Or Mob Rules?  ***YOU MAY CHOOSE ONE!!  Not #bolth!!! TELL US ON FACEBOOK and IG***)(23:36: Black Sabbath (Falling off the Edge of The World from “Mob Rules” #40yearsold #stillfuckingawesome #waitforit #DONOTturnitoffnow (It’s kinda pre-Reign in Blood Reign in Blood) / #grower #deepcut #vaginaboner) That’s a BUSY riff!  / Heaven & Hell from Heaven & Hell (check out our 1980 episode as it’s tangentionally related…also listen to Rime of the Ancient Mariner… I can hear the #tangentionalality between #bolth) Wait, is #flatulence also #punishment?  Or #flatdulation (aka being adored by farts)(29:55): (If you listen to fools…) The Mob Rules (#ohcmon) / The Sign of the Southern Cross (also from Mob Rules…#1981 #ronniejameswilson) that Stoner vibe is more apparent to me now! (Thank you for that, Billy!) / #eightmileshigh / STAND UP AND SHOUT (Dio:  Holy Diver) #readthoselyrics very #NWOBHM and kinda Thrashy even / Shame on The Night (#hellhound #softintro) Dig that fucking album cover (ESPECIALLY with headphones and #relaxers) / ***If you do NOT own Holy Diver, you should REALLY reconsider continuing to live your life without owning it.  GO BUY IT!!*** #shitturdballs #blacklightposters #skyvapes.(40:38):  The Last In Line (***go check out the music video***) / We’re off to #thewitch… / Parallels in Dio’s lyrics (#peanutbutter & #chocolate is like #pizza and #mexican ) / I speed at Night (feel the Priest/Motorhead vibe #highwaymetal ) #frozenated is a word #letitgo / Breathless (also from Last In Line) / The loss of momentum after Last In Line (from Sacred Heart through Dream Evil) #weall graduated and moved on to heavier shit (into the thrash…#thankyou #RJD for HELPING to build the bridge to good classic #medicalnerdery / Just Another Day (Sacred Heart) kinda #thrashish / Dio’s faster songs vs the slower songs (#softintro on Sunset Superman (Dream Evil))  Ronnie’s vocals were always very #theaterofthemind  / ***DID ANYONE SEE THE DIO HOLOGRAM TOUR!?!?  Tell us on the socials (FB & IG) and indicate which relaxer (if any) you enjoyed during attendance *** / The “technical” name for the #vagina (#doorsclosed) Clots in the Velvet Room:  (Matt’s upcoming standup comedy album) ***PLEASE LEAVE US SOME POSITIVE 5-STAR RATINGS, KUDOS, KOMMENDMENTS AND KONDIMENTS IN THE MAIL SACK metalnerdery@gmail.com  and or MESSAGE US on the FB and the IG *** The “various members” / Wait…whaddya mean!?(55:34):  More modern Dio:  Killing The Dragon (The #Exciter reference #definitely #skynet) / ***CHECK OUT THAT ALBUM COVER TO “KILLING THE DRAGON” ***) #vivid #lyrical #imagery ***Check out the Video for “Push” with Tenacious D opening…*** #youreonalist / We hope you enjoyed the Dio Sampler; Big #HAIL to Ronnie James Dio #RJD #caprisuns and #nutterbutters and #metalnerderyASMR #shinydiamonds (#whoops)

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Born to Run  was Bruce Springsteen's third studio album, and the first unarguably successful commercial album.  While he had previously achieved critical success with many industry insiders comparing him with Bob Dylan, his two prior albums had been more of a regional hit.  With Born to Run, Springsteen had both time and money to make the album, and went for a “wall of sound” approach.  Wikipedia mentions that he wanted it to sound like “Roy Orbison singing Bob Dylan, produced by Phil Spector.”  With regard to the lyrics, Springsteen said this album was “the album where I left behind my adolescent definitions of love and freedom - it was the dividing line.”To call this commercially and critically successful is an understatement. Born to Run is a giant of an album.  It produced two singles, "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out" and "Born to Run," and these are timeless rock classics.  But almost the entire album can be heard on classic rock stations regularly.The songs were all composed on piano instead of guitar, and the songs tend to reflect this in their introductory instrumentation.  Each album side starts with a song about escape (Thunder Road, Born to Run), and ends with a song about defeat (Backstreets, Jungleland).  And of course you get not only the monster sounds and lyrics of Springsteen, but also the instrumental virtuosity of the E. Street Band.  This is another example of an album that should be heard from cover to cover to get the full experience of it.Alright, folks, it's time to run with The Boss! JunglelandThis isn't really a song, but more of an opera or an epic tragedy.  This track closes out the album and tells the tale of Magic Rat and the barefoot girl.  It's got scenes of life on the streets and in the gangs in New Jersey in the city they call Jungleland.  It was 19 months from the first rehearsal of this song until it's completion.  Saxophonist Clarence Clemons' solo supposedly took 16 hours alone to record, and takes up 3 minutes of this 9+ minute song.  That length is why we're only profiling three songs from the album this week.She's the OneThis is a deeper cut with a Bo Didley Beat.  It is the B-side of "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out" and got a bit of air play on rock stations as a consequence.  "There's this angel in her eyes that tells such desperate lies and all you want to do is believe her."Thunder RoadBruce (the one profiling this album, not the songwriter) thinks this may be the song with the finest lyrics top-to-bottom that Springsteen ever wrote.  It tells of a visit to Mary's house, and uses automobile and motorcycle imagery to describe a plea from the suitor for Mary to run off with him “if you're ready to take that long walk from your front porch to my front seat.  The door's open, but the ride ain't free.” ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:The Time Warp (from the motion picture “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”)Yes, that timeless classic from the midnight movies had its origin this summer.  It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right!  STAFF PICKS:Man on the Silver Mountain  by RainbowWayne features the distinctive guitar riff of Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio's vocals from Rainbow, Blackmore's group after leaving Deep Purple.  The original vinyl release was a gated gold sleeve, but the record company reduced it to a single sleeve.  Por Amor Viviremos by The Captain and TennilleRob brings us the Spanish version of "Love Will Keep Us Together."  The Captain and Tennille had both the English language and Spanish language versions on the charts this month.  "Love Will Keep Us Together" was originally done by Neil Sedaka in 1973, but this cover became identified with The Captain and Tennille. I'm Not In Love  by 10ccBrian's staff pick incorporates the backing of a wordless choir, with 256 voices overdubbed.  The song itself is about expressing love without saying "I love you."  The song was almost discarded, but when they heard the secretary and window cleaner singing it they decided to keep it.  The whispered voice was from the secretary at Strawberry Studios.How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) by James TaylorBruce finishes on a lighter note with this cover of Marvin Gaye's original 1965 hit. Taylor would take this one to number 1, and it would be the most successful remake of the song (the original went to number 3).  Taylor's then-wife Carly Simon is on harmony vocals, and David Sanborn joins on saxophone. LAUGH TRACK:I Like Beer by Tom T. HallWe finish off this week with a cold one in a polka genre.

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Rainbow es una banda británica de hard rock y heavy metal liderada por el guitarrista Ritchie Blackmore, cuyo período de actividad tuvo lugar entre 1975 y 1984 y entre 1994 y 1997. Aunque originalmente estaba establecida por Blackmore y los componentes del grupo Elf, Rainbow sufrió varios cambios en su formación y ninguna de ellas grabó más de un disco. Además de contar con la participación de los vocalistas Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner y Doogie White en distintas etapas, la banda estaba integrada por una serie de instrumentistas. Originalmente su música mezclaba letras épicas con el sonido del metal neoclásico, pero ésta se volvió más comercial tras la marcha de Dio. Rainbow ocupa el puesto noventa de la lista 100 mejores artistas de hard rock diseñada por VH1. Ritchie Blackmore, guitarrista de Deep Purple, discrepaba de la orientación musical de esta banda y optó por separarse oficialmente en abril de 1975 para comenzar un proyecto paralelo. Para ello convocó a los miembros de una banda ya existente, Elf, exceptuando al guitarrista, ​ con los cuales había estado en los Musicland Studios de Múnich (el mismo utilizado para Stormbringer de Deep Purple) entre febrero y marzo de ese año. ​ Elf había sido la banda soporte de Deep Purple durante algunas fechas de su última gira norteamericana en 1974. Con esta formación salió el primer álbum, titulado simplemente Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975), el cual ofreció como relativo éxito la canción "Man on the Silver Mountain". Pero a continuación, Blackmore deshizo el grupo y se quedó solamente con el cantante, Ronald James Padavona, más conocido como Ronnie James Dio, con quien compartía gustos por temas como la música clásica y el ocultismo. Esta situación los dejó en una extraña posición, con un disco grabado listo para salir pero sin una banda para presentarlo en vivo. A la base Dio-Blackmore se agregó un nuevo integrante, el baterista Cozy Powell, quién venía de tocar junto a Jeff Beck. La incorporación de Powell resultaría vital para la obtención del sonido que caracterizaría a la banda los siguientes cinco años. Luego se integraría el bajista Jimmy Bain y el músico canadiense Tony Carey. El 12 de noviembre de 1975, en el Beacon Theater de Nueva York se realizó el primer concierto de Rainbow de todos los tiempos, con Argent como teloneros (banda que tuvo como guitarrista a Russ Ballard, compositor de las canciones "Since You've Been Gone" y "I Surrender" que serían usadas en el repertorio de Rainbow tiempo después). El primer éxito verdadero vino en 1976 con el álbum Rising, producido por Martin Birch. Este álbum no produjo ningún sencillo pero fue muy vendido durante bastante tiempo. En este disco puede encontrarse "Stargazer", una de las canciones de referencia del género, que marca el inicio de las letras características de la carrera de Ronnie James Dio, ​ El año siguiente editaron On Stage, un disco en vivo que marca el fin de la formación clásica de Rainbow. Al igual que en Made in Japan, el aclamado disco en vivo que años antes había grabado Ritchie junto a Deep Purple, On Stage incluye versiones extendidas de los primeros clásicos de la banda, marcando la pauta para un subgénero que se acuñaría como tal años más tarde, el heavy metal progresivo, Mientras todo esto ocurría, el grupo se reunía en París en los estudios Le Chateau para preparar un nuevo LP. El bajista Jimmy Bain no fue convocado. En su reemplazo, Blackmore llamó a Mark Clarke, exintegrante del grupo Tempest, que venía de acompañar al por entonces líder y teclista de Uriah Heep, Ken Hensley, en su segundo disco solista, Eager To Please (un disco en el que se incluía una composición del propio Clarke llamada curiosamente Stargazer). Tras dos meses de sesiones intermitentes, Blackmore, disgustado con los resultados, despide a Tony Carey primero y a Mark Clarke poco después, ​ La grabación queda detenida con Blackmore regresando a Inglaterra para probar músicos. Al no quedar conforme con ninguno, vuelve a París y regraba él mismo todas las partes de bajo. Las partes de Tony Carey son regrabadas en diciembre por un músico de sesión llamado David Stone que es finalmente incorporado como un miembro estable. Poco después la alineación se completa con Bob Daisley al bajo y así se presenta el disco, sin embargo, el bajo en la grabación final fue grabado por el propio Blackmore. ​ Long Live Rock 'n' Roll es lanzado en el Reino Unido el día que el guitarrista cumple 33 años, el 14 de abril de 1978. La gira lleva al grupo a Estados Unidos, plaza que por entonces la banda no podía conquistar, con magras ventas de todos los discos y sencillos editados hasta el momento, La gira se completa con un Blackmore frustrado ante esta situación. Poco después le anuncia a Dio su intención de darle a la música del grupo un planteamiento más comercial. Blackmore quería alcanzar la línea de bandas como Journey, Foreigner o REO Speedwagon. Dio no acepta estos términos y renuncia. Casi enseguida Blackmore, sintiendo que el cambio en la banda debe ser más profundo, despide a Daisley y a Stone. Solo queda a su lado Cozy Powell. Tras el alejamiento de Dio y el resto de músicos, Ritchie Blackmore se encontraba en una encrucijada personal y artística, viviendo un período convulsivo de cambios internos (un divorcio) y externos (su banda). Decidió recurrir a su antiguo compañero en Deep Purple y en ese momento un reputado productor discográfico, Roger Glover. Si bien la partida del bajista de Deep Purple en 1973 había sido mucho menos que amistosa, habían pasado casi seis años desde entonces por lo que los ánimos volvían a estar predispuestos por ambas partes. La idea de Blackmore era que Glover, como productor, llevara a Rainbow al reconocimiento masivo en los Estados Unidos, aun cuando esto significara cambiar los planteamientos musicales del grupo estilística y estéticamente. Finalmente Blackmore le propuso a Roger volver a los escenarios como bajista, lo cual también le permitió compartir los créditos de composición. Blackmore y Glover empezaron a componer nuevo material. Con el agregado del sesionista Don Airey en teclados y tras la nueva convocatoria de Cozy Powell, el cuarteto se dirigió a París en enero de 1979, y nuevamente en Le Chateau Studios grabaron bases y pistas instrumentales para ser usadas en el próximo disco, aunque la agrupación todavía no tenía un cantante contratado. El primer candidato fue Ian Gillan, pero el vocalista declinó la oferta. Roger Glover sugirió un cantante de Lincolnshire al que había oído en cintas y el cual había tenido éxito en Australia, pero que era desconocido en el resto del mundo: Graham Bonnet. El guitarrista y el bajista viajaron a Australia y vieron a Bonnet en vivo. El cantante tenía un rango vocal adecuado, pero visualmente era muy diferente a la idea que Blackmore tenía sobre como debía lucir un líder. Bonnet usaba el cabello muy corto y tenía una apariencia similar a la de James Dean, algo que no encajaba con el tono de Ritchie. Apremiado por la falta de tiempo, Blackmore decidió contratar a Bonnet. De allí fueron a París, donde se grabaron las voces y se hicieron los arreglos finales en febrero. El grupo fue presentado oficialmente y el 1 de agosto de 1979 el álbum Down to Earth fue lanzado. El disco mostraba un sonido mucho más comercial, además, los miembros de la banda se recortaron el cabello para no acentuar el contraste con Bonnet. Lograron el primer hit-single con Since You've Been Gone (Nº 6 en las listas de éxitos) y enseguida repitieron con All Night Long (Nº 5 en las listas). La gira mundial también fue un éxito, con excelente respuesta en Japón, Australia y Nueva Zelanda. Sin embargo en Inglaterra la historia fue distinta. El concierto en el estadio de Wembley terminó convertido en una batalla campal y hubo graves destrozos que motivaron la intervención policial cuando Blackmore se negó a hacer un bis tras solo 75 minutos de show. ​ La repercusión fue tan negativa que Blackmore decidió conceder un reportaje al diario Melody Maker días después, donde fue entrevistado por un grupo de sus fanáticos. Blackmore y Glover empezaron a mostrar cierto descontento con Bonnet. La situación empeora cuando Cozy Powell anuncia su intención de dejar la banda tras el éxito de su disco solista. El 16 de agosto de 1980 el grupo encabeza la primera edición del festival Monsters of Rock en Donington Park, Reino Unido. Rainbow anuncia que el concierto del Monsters of Rock es la despedida oficial de Cozy Powell. Días después también se anuncia la partida de Graham Bonnet, señalando que es una decisión personal, A fines de agosto de 1980, superado el Monsters of Rock, Blackmore y Glover tienen temas compuestos ya desde el año anterior y otro disco en carpeta por lo que necesitan cubrir los puestos de cantante y baterista. El novato Bobby Rondinelli es elegido tras audicionar a más de cien bateristas. Con él incorporado, el grupo graba bases a finales de ese mes en los estudios Sweet Silence de Copenhague, Dinamarca. Blackmore está decidido a romper el mercado estadounidense, por lo que orientan la búsqueda hacia esas tierras. Joe Lynn Turner, cantante y guitarrista rítmico de una poco conocida banda de la costa este estadounidense llamada Fandango, es contratado como nuevo cantante en reemplazo de Bonnet. La agrupación, conformada por Blackmore, Turner, Airey, Glover y Rondinelli, se trasladó a Copenhague para grabar Difficult To Cure. El disco fue lanzado mundialmente el 12 de febrero de 1981. El diseño de carátula fue creado por la prestigiosa firma Hipgnosis, responsables de algunas de las portadas de bandas como Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin y Black Sabbath. El nombre del álbum le es adjudicado a la última canción del mismo, una adaptación de Blackmore del "Himno a la alegría" contenido en la Novena Sinfonía de Beethoven. Al disco le sigue una gira mundial. David Rosenthal, instrumentista y transcriptor proveniente de la música clásica, reemplaza a Don Airey en los teclados para la grabación del siguiente trabajo discográfico. Para este nuevo proyecto, la premisa era acentuar el aspecto comercial de la música para lograr insertar al grupo en el mercado estadounidense, donde la banda no había podido tocar en lugares grandes excepto como banda soporte. La gira anterior por Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, fue abriendo recitales de Reo Speedwagon). Straight Between the Eyes sale al mercado en marzo de 1982. ​ "Stone Cold", el corte de difusión, llega a la segunda posición del ranking estadounidense. Impulsado por la popularidad del sencillo, el álbum se convirtió en un éxito en ventas en Norteamérica, tanto que se convirtió en la segunda producción de Blackmore más vendida en ese continente después de Machine Head de Deep Purple. La tan ansiada popularidad en los Estados Unidos finalmente llegó para la agrupación. Sin embargo, muchos de los fanáticos del sonido inicial de Rainbow quedaron decepcionados por el acercamiento de la banda al AOR. La gira soporte del álbum se enfocó específicamente en el mercado estadounidense, dejando por fuera al Reino Unido. Fue filmado un concierto de esta gira en San Antonio, Texas y compilado en el directo Live Between the Eyes. El grupo se mantiene un año más, durante el cual plasman el álbum más consistente de todo el período Turner, Bent Out Of Shape, grabado entre mayo y junio de 1983 en Copenhague y editado en septiembre de ese año. Pese a su calidad, el álbum vende apenas la mitad de lo esperado, por lo que apenas es apoyado por material de difusión. La gira tampoco fue tan multitudinaria como la anterior. Chuck Burgi reemplazó a Rondinelli en la batería. El vídeoclip de la canción "Street of Dreams" generó cierta controversia tras declaraciones del doctor Thomas Radecki afirmando que no debería ser transmitido por el canal MTV debido a su contenido de violencia contra la mujer. ​ Rainbow regresó al Reino Unido y también realizó una gira por tierras japonesas en marzo de 1984, donde la banda interpretó "Difficult to Cure" acompañado de una orquesta. La actuación quedaría plasmada en un vídeo oficial exclusivo para Japón y parcialmente en el doble Finyl Vinyl editado en 1986. Tras la poca acogida que tuvo la última gira de la banda en Norteamérica, Blackmore decide hacer una pausa en su carrera con Rainbow para reunirse con sus antiguos compañeros de Deep Purple. Luego de grabar cuatro álbumes de estudio y girar durante casi 10 años, a finales de 1993 algunas desavenencias personales con los integrantes de la banda (especialmente con el vocalista Ian Gillan) llevaron a Blackmore a abandonar la gira 25 Aniversario del grupo que presentaba el álbum The Battle Rages On después de varios shows que mostraban que las relaciones del conjunto eran completamente insostenibles. El guitarrista fue reemplazado por Joe Satriani. Su salida de Deep Purple llevó a Blackmore a reagrupar Rainbow en 1995 para grabar el álbum Stranger in Us All y para realizar una nueva gira mundial. Para este, su último disco en estudio de hard rock, Blackmore reclutó a Doogie White, antiguo postulante para reemplazar a Bruce Dickinson cuando partió de Iron Maiden en 1992, al bajista Greg Smith (ex-Alice Cooper), al tecladista Paul Morris (ex-Warlock) y el batería John O'Reilly. Este último se rompió una costilla después de la finalización del disco, por lo que fue reemplazado por Chuck Burgi. Hacia fines de 1996 John Micelli reemplazó a Burgi para el tour europeo, dando la banda el último show en el Esjberg Festival en Dinamarca en abril de 1997. Pese al éxito del último disco, sobre todo en Japón, con giras por Asia y Sudamérica, Blackmore decidió empezar una nueva aventura musical con su pareja, la cantante Candice Night, corista de esta nueva etapa de Rainbow, con quien formó Blackmore's Night y hasta la fecha ha editado varios discos de música medieval. Desde 2014 el antiguo vocalista de la banda, Joe Lynn Turner, extendió en diversas entrevistas el rumor de que él y Ritchie Blackmore habían estado conversando sobre una posible reunión de Rainbow, declarando que el guitarrista se estaba sintiendo tentado de volver a tocar música rock. ​ Si bien dichas declaraciones eran hasta el momento sólo especulaciones sin confirmar por parte del mismo Blackmore, en septiembre de 2015 Ritchie Blackmore reveló en una entrevista que efectivamente iba a regresar al mundo del hard rock aunque de forma muy fugaz, teniendo en mente presentarse por solamente tres fechas en Europa a mediados de 2016, para después volver a Blackmore's Night y cerrar dicho capítulo permanentemente, motivado especialmente por la muerte de su antiguo colega de Deep Purple, el teclista Jon Lord en 2012. La nueva alineación de Rainbow fue anunciada el 6 de noviembre de 2015, con el cantante de la banda Lords of Black, Ronnie Romero (a quien Blackmore se refirió como un vocalista increíble, con una voz similar a la de Dio y Freddie Mercury). el teclista de Stratovarius, Jens Johansson, el baterista de Blackmore's Night, David Keith y el bajista Bob Nouveau. La banda encabezó la edición alemana del festival "Monsters of Rock" festival. Debutaron el 17 de junio de 2016 en el festival Loreley Freilichtbuhne ante unas 15 000 personas. El 18 de junio tocaron en otro festival al aire libre ante 30 000 fanáticos en Bietigheim-Bissingen. El tercer y último show fue brindado en Birmingham, Inglaterra. Se le consultó en una entrevista al bajista Bob Nouveau sobre la posibilidad de grabar un álbum de estudio con esta nueva formación de Rainbow, a lo que el músico contestó: "Me encantaría entrar al estudio con esta formación de Rainbow. Solo necesitamos que Ritchie se decida a hacerlo. Siento que todos tenemos alguna presión debido a las expectativas de nuestros fanáticos. En mi caso, esa presión me hace trabajar con más ímpetu para tratar de conseguir mejores resultados". ​ Sin embargo, Blackmore afirmó que no había posibilidad de grabar un nuevo álbum y que esta reunión se dio por "simple diversión". El músico también afirmó que se le han hecho varias propuestas para hacer más conciertos en el futuro con Rainbow. Pese a la decisión inicial de no retornar al estudio, Blackmore relevó en mayo de 2017 en una entrevista con la revista Burrn! que la banda había grabado dos nuevas canciones. Blackmore afirmó: "Compuse una nueva canción y también grabé de nuevo una de las clásicas. Ronnie, que se encuentra en Madrid en este momento, le agregó las voces y me la envió de vuelta. Las canciones serán publicadas como sencillos, no en un larga duración". Rainbow se embarcó en una gira de cuatro fechas por el Reino Unido en junio de 2017. La gira dio inicio con el primer concierto de la banda en Londres desde 1995, seguida por recitales en Mánchester, Glasgow y Birmingham.Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Biblioteca Del Metal (Recopilation). Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/308558

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Rainbow es una banda británica de hard rock y heavy metal liderada por el guitarrista Ritchie Blackmore, cuyo período de actividad tuvo lugar entre 1975 y 1984 y entre 1994 y 1997. Aunque originalmente estaba establecida por Blackmore y los componentes del grupo Elf, Rainbow sufrió varios cambios en su formación y ninguna de ellas grabó más de un disco. Además de contar con la participación de los vocalistas Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner y Doogie White en distintas etapas, la banda estaba integrada por una serie de instrumentistas. Originalmente su música mezclaba letras épicas con el sonido del metal neoclásico, pero ésta se volvió más comercial tras la marcha de Dio. Rainbow ocupa el puesto noventa de la lista 100 mejores artistas de hard rock diseñada por VH1. Ritchie Blackmore, guitarrista de Deep Purple, discrepaba de la orientación musical de esta banda y optó por separarse oficialmente en abril de 1975 para comenzar un proyecto paralelo. Para ello convocó a los miembros de una banda ya existente, Elf, exceptuando al guitarrista, ​ con los cuales había estado en los Musicland Studios de Múnich (el mismo utilizado para Stormbringer de Deep Purple) entre febrero y marzo de ese año. ​ Elf había sido la banda soporte de Deep Purple durante algunas fechas de su última gira norteamericana en 1974. Con esta formación salió el primer álbum, titulado simplemente Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975), el cual ofreció como relativo éxito la canción "Man on the Silver Mountain". Pero a continuación, Blackmore deshizo el grupo y se quedó solamente con el cantante, Ronald James Padavona, más conocido como Ronnie James Dio, con quien compartía gustos por temas como la música clásica y el ocultismo. Esta situación los dejó en una extraña posición, con un disco grabado listo para salir pero sin una banda para presentarlo en vivo. A la base Dio-Blackmore se agregó un nuevo integrante, el baterista Cozy Powell, quién venía de tocar junto a Jeff Beck. La incorporación de Powell resultaría vital para la obtención del sonido que caracterizaría a la banda los siguientes cinco años. Luego se integraría el bajista Jimmy Bain y el músico canadiense Tony Carey. El 12 de noviembre de 1975, en el Beacon Theater de Nueva York se realizó el primer concierto de Rainbow de todos los tiempos, con Argent como teloneros (banda que tuvo como guitarrista a Russ Ballard, compositor de las canciones "Since You've Been Gone" y "I Surrender" que serían usadas en el repertorio de Rainbow tiempo después). El primer éxito verdadero vino en 1976 con el álbum Rising, producido por Martin Birch. Este álbum no produjo ningún sencillo pero fue muy vendido durante bastante tiempo. En este disco puede encontrarse "Stargazer", una de las canciones de referencia del género, que marca el inicio de las letras características de la carrera de Ronnie James Dio, ​ El año siguiente editaron On Stage, un disco en vivo que marca el fin de la formación clásica de Rainbow. Al igual que en Made in Japan, el aclamado disco en vivo que años antes había grabado Ritchie junto a Deep Purple, On Stage incluye versiones extendidas de los primeros clásicos de la banda, marcando la pauta para un subgénero que se acuñaría como tal años más tarde, el heavy metal progresivo, Mientras todo esto ocurría, el grupo se reunía en París en los estudios Le Chateau para preparar un nuevo LP. El bajista Jimmy Bain no fue convocado. En su reemplazo, Blackmore llamó a Mark Clarke, exintegrante del grupo Tempest, que venía de acompañar al por entonces líder y teclista de Uriah Heep, Ken Hensley, en su segundo disco solista, Eager To Please (un disco en el que se incluía una composición del propio Clarke llamada curiosamente Stargazer). Tras dos meses de sesiones intermitentes, Blackmore, disgustado con los resultados, despide a Tony Carey primero y a Mark Clarke poco después, ​ La grabación queda detenida con Blackmore regresando a Inglaterra para probar músicos. Al no quedar conforme con ninguno, vuelve a París y regraba él mismo todas las partes de bajo. Las partes de Tony Carey son regrabadas en diciembre por un músico de sesión llamado David Stone que es finalmente incorporado como un miembro estable. Poco después la alineación se completa con Bob Daisley al bajo y así se presenta el disco, sin embargo, el bajo en la grabación final fue grabado por el propio Blackmore. ​ Long Live Rock 'n' Roll es lanzado en el Reino Unido el día que el guitarrista cumple 33 años, el 14 de abril de 1978. La gira lleva al grupo a Estados Unidos, plaza que por entonces la banda no podía conquistar, con magras ventas de todos los discos y sencillos editados hasta el momento, La gira se completa con un Blackmore frustrado ante esta situación. Poco después le anuncia a Dio su intención de darle a la música del grupo un planteamiento más comercial. Blackmore quería alcanzar la línea de bandas como Journey, Foreigner o REO Speedwagon. Dio no acepta estos términos y renuncia. Casi enseguida Blackmore, sintiendo que el cambio en la banda debe ser más profundo, despide a Daisley y a Stone. Solo queda a su lado Cozy Powell. Tras el alejamiento de Dio y el resto de músicos, Ritchie Blackmore se encontraba en una encrucijada personal y artística, viviendo un período convulsivo de cambios internos (un divorcio) y externos (su banda). Decidió recurrir a su antiguo compañero en Deep Purple y en ese momento un reputado productor discográfico, Roger Glover. Si bien la partida del bajista de Deep Purple en 1973 había sido mucho menos que amistosa, habían pasado casi seis años desde entonces por lo que los ánimos volvían a estar predispuestos por ambas partes. La idea de Blackmore era que Glover, como productor, llevara a Rainbow al reconocimiento masivo en los Estados Unidos, aun cuando esto significara cambiar los planteamientos musicales del grupo estilística y estéticamente. Finalmente Blackmore le propuso a Roger volver a los escenarios como bajista, lo cual también le permitió compartir los créditos de composición. Blackmore y Glover empezaron a componer nuevo material. Con el agregado del sesionista Don Airey en teclados y tras la nueva convocatoria de Cozy Powell, el cuarteto se dirigió a París en enero de 1979, y nuevamente en Le Chateau Studios grabaron bases y pistas instrumentales para ser usadas en el próximo disco, aunque la agrupación todavía no tenía un cantante contratado. El primer candidato fue Ian Gillan, pero el vocalista declinó la oferta. Roger Glover sugirió un cantante de Lincolnshire al que había oído en cintas y el cual había tenido éxito en Australia, pero que era desconocido en el resto del mundo: Graham Bonnet. El guitarrista y el bajista viajaron a Australia y vieron a Bonnet en vivo. El cantante tenía un rango vocal adecuado, pero visualmente era muy diferente a la idea que Blackmore tenía sobre como debía lucir un líder. Bonnet usaba el cabello muy corto y tenía una apariencia similar a la de James Dean, algo que no encajaba con el tono de Ritchie. Apremiado por la falta de tiempo, Blackmore decidió contratar a Bonnet. De allí fueron a París, donde se grabaron las voces y se hicieron los arreglos finales en febrero. El grupo fue presentado oficialmente y el 1 de agosto de 1979 el álbum Down to Earth fue lanzado. El disco mostraba un sonido mucho más comercial, además, los miembros de la banda se recortaron el cabello para no acentuar el contraste con Bonnet. Lograron el primer hit-single con Since You've Been Gone (Nº 6 en las listas de éxitos) y enseguida repitieron con All Night Long (Nº 5 en las listas). La gira mundial también fue un éxito, con excelente respuesta en Japón, Australia y Nueva Zelanda. Sin embargo en Inglaterra la historia fue distinta. El concierto en el estadio de Wembley terminó convertido en una batalla campal y hubo graves destrozos que motivaron la intervención policial cuando Blackmore se negó a hacer un bis tras solo 75 minutos de show. ​ La repercusión fue tan negativa que Blackmore decidió conceder un reportaje al diario Melody Maker días después, donde fue entrevistado por un grupo de sus fanáticos. Blackmore y Glover empezaron a mostrar cierto descontento con Bonnet. La situación empeora cuando Cozy Powell anuncia su intención de dejar la banda tras el éxito de su disco solista. El 16 de agosto de 1980 el grupo encabeza la primera edición del festival Monsters of Rock en Donington Park, Reino Unido. Rainbow anuncia que el concierto del Monsters of Rock es la despedida oficial de Cozy Powell. Días después también se anuncia la partida de Graham Bonnet, señalando que es una decisión personal, A fines de agosto de 1980, superado el Monsters of Rock, Blackmore y Glover tienen temas compuestos ya desde el año anterior y otro disco en carpeta por lo que necesitan cubrir los puestos de cantante y baterista. El novato Bobby Rondinelli es elegido tras audicionar a más de cien bateristas. Con él incorporado, el grupo graba bases a finales de ese mes en los estudios Sweet Silence de Copenhague, Dinamarca. Blackmore está decidido a romper el mercado estadounidense, por lo que orientan la búsqueda hacia esas tierras. Joe Lynn Turner, cantante y guitarrista rítmico de una poco conocida banda de la costa este estadounidense llamada Fandango, es contratado como nuevo cantante en reemplazo de Bonnet. La agrupación, conformada por Blackmore, Turner, Airey, Glover y Rondinelli, se trasladó a Copenhague para grabar Difficult To Cure. El disco fue lanzado mundialmente el 12 de febrero de 1981. El diseño de carátula fue creado por la prestigiosa firma Hipgnosis, responsables de algunas de las portadas de bandas como Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin y Black Sabbath. El nombre del álbum le es adjudicado a la última canción del mismo, una adaptación de Blackmore del "Himno a la alegría" contenido en la Novena Sinfonía de Beethoven. Al disco le sigue una gira mundial. David Rosenthal, instrumentista y transcriptor proveniente de la música clásica, reemplaza a Don Airey en los teclados para la grabación del siguiente trabajo discográfico. Para este nuevo proyecto, la premisa era acentuar el aspecto comercial de la música para lograr insertar al grupo en el mercado estadounidense, donde la banda no había podido tocar en lugares grandes excepto como banda soporte. La gira anterior por Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, fue abriendo recitales de Reo Speedwagon). Straight Between the Eyes sale al mercado en marzo de 1982. ​ "Stone Cold", el corte de difusión, llega a la segunda posición del ranking estadounidense. Impulsado por la popularidad del sencillo, el álbum se convirtió en un éxito en ventas en Norteamérica, tanto que se convirtió en la segunda producción de Blackmore más vendida en ese continente después de Machine Head de Deep Purple. La tan ansiada popularidad en los Estados Unidos finalmente llegó para la agrupación. Sin embargo, muchos de los fanáticos del sonido inicial de Rainbow quedaron decepcionados por el acercamiento de la banda al AOR. La gira soporte del álbum se enfocó específicamente en el mercado estadounidense, dejando por fuera al Reino Unido. Fue filmado un concierto de esta gira en San Antonio, Texas y compilado en el directo Live Between the Eyes. El grupo se mantiene un año más, durante el cual plasman el álbum más consistente de todo el período Turner, Bent Out Of Shape, grabado entre mayo y junio de 1983 en Copenhague y editado en septiembre de ese año. Pese a su calidad, el álbum vende apenas la mitad de lo esperado, por lo que apenas es apoyado por material de difusión. La gira tampoco fue tan multitudinaria como la anterior. Chuck Burgi reemplazó a Rondinelli en la batería. El vídeoclip de la canción "Street of Dreams" generó cierta controversia tras declaraciones del doctor Thomas Radecki afirmando que no debería ser transmitido por el canal MTV debido a su contenido de violencia contra la mujer. ​ Rainbow regresó al Reino Unido y también realizó una gira por tierras japonesas en marzo de 1984, donde la banda interpretó "Difficult to Cure" acompañado de una orquesta. La actuación quedaría plasmada en un vídeo oficial exclusivo para Japón y parcialmente en el doble Finyl Vinyl editado en 1986. Tras la poca acogida que tuvo la última gira de la banda en Norteamérica, Blackmore decide hacer una pausa en su carrera con Rainbow para reunirse con sus antiguos compañeros de Deep Purple. Luego de grabar cuatro álbumes de estudio y girar durante casi 10 años, a finales de 1993 algunas desavenencias personales con los integrantes de la banda (especialmente con el vocalista Ian Gillan) llevaron a Blackmore a abandonar la gira 25 Aniversario del grupo que presentaba el álbum The Battle Rages On después de varios shows que mostraban que las relaciones del conjunto eran completamente insostenibles. El guitarrista fue reemplazado por Joe Satriani. Su salida de Deep Purple llevó a Blackmore a reagrupar Rainbow en 1995 para grabar el álbum Stranger in Us All y para realizar una nueva gira mundial. Para este, su último disco en estudio de hard rock, Blackmore reclutó a Doogie White, antiguo postulante para reemplazar a Bruce Dickinson cuando partió de Iron Maiden en 1992, al bajista Greg Smith (ex-Alice Cooper), al tecladista Paul Morris (ex-Warlock) y el batería John O'Reilly. Este último se rompió una costilla después de la finalización del disco, por lo que fue reemplazado por Chuck Burgi. Hacia fines de 1996 John Micelli reemplazó a Burgi para el tour europeo, dando la banda el último show en el Esjberg Festival en Dinamarca en abril de 1997. Pese al éxito del último disco, sobre todo en Japón, con giras por Asia y Sudamérica, Blackmore decidió empezar una nueva aventura musical con su pareja, la cantante Candice Night, corista de esta nueva etapa de Rainbow, con quien formó Blackmore's Night y hasta la fecha ha editado varios discos de música medieval. Desde 2014 el antiguo vocalista de la banda, Joe Lynn Turner, extendió en diversas entrevistas el rumor de que él y Ritchie Blackmore habían estado conversando sobre una posible reunión de Rainbow, declarando que el guitarrista se estaba sintiendo tentado de volver a tocar música rock. ​ Si bien dichas declaraciones eran hasta el momento sólo especulaciones sin confirmar por parte del mismo Blackmore, en septiembre de 2015 Ritchie Blackmore reveló en una entrevista que efectivamente iba a regresar al mundo del hard rock aunque de forma muy fugaz, teniendo en mente presentarse por solamente tres fechas en Europa a mediados de 2016, para después volver a Blackmore's Night y cerrar dicho capítulo permanentemente, motivado especialmente por la muerte de su antiguo colega de Deep Purple, el teclista Jon Lord en 2012. La nueva alineación de Rainbow fue anunciada el 6 de noviembre de 2015, con el cantante de la banda Lords of Black, Ronnie Romero (a quien Blackmore se refirió como un vocalista increíble, con una voz similar a la de Dio y Freddie Mercury). el teclista de Stratovarius, Jens Johansson, el baterista de Blackmore's Night, David Keith y el bajista Bob Nouveau. La banda encabezó la edición alemana del festival "Monsters of Rock" festival. Debutaron el 17 de junio de 2016 en el festival Loreley Freilichtbuhne ante unas 15 000 personas. El 18 de junio tocaron en otro festival al aire libre ante 30 000 fanáticos en Bietigheim-Bissingen. El tercer y último show fue brindado en Birmingham, Inglaterra. Se le consultó en una entrevista al bajista Bob Nouveau sobre la posibilidad de grabar un álbum de estudio con esta nueva formación de Rainbow, a lo que el músico contestó: "Me encantaría entrar al estudio con esta formación de Rainbow. Solo necesitamos que Ritchie se decida a hacerlo. Siento que todos tenemos alguna presión debido a las expectativas de nuestros fanáticos. En mi caso, esa presión me hace trabajar con más ímpetu para tratar de conseguir mejores resultados". ​ Sin embargo, Blackmore afirmó que no había posibilidad de grabar un nuevo álbum y que esta reunión se dio por "simple diversión". El músico también afirmó que se le han hecho varias propuestas para hacer más conciertos en el futuro con Rainbow. Pese a la decisión inicial de no retornar al estudio, Blackmore relevó en mayo de 2017 en una entrevista con la revista Burrn! que la banda había grabado dos nuevas canciones. Blackmore afirmó: "Compuse una nueva canción y también grabé de nuevo una de las clásicas. Ronnie, que se encuentra en Madrid en este momento, le agregó las voces y me la envió de vuelta. Las canciones serán publicadas como sencillos, no en un larga duración". Rainbow se embarcó en una gira de cuatro fechas por el Reino Unido en junio de 2017. La gira dio inicio con el primer concierto de la banda en Londres desde 1995, seguida por recitales en Mánchester, Glasgow y Birmingham.Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Biblioteca Del Metal (Recopilation). Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/308558

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Morris Beegle is a hemp entrepreneur, advocate, educator, and is the President of We Are for Better Alternatives, which is the parent company of NoCo Hemp Expo, Southern Hemp Expo, Silver Mountain Hemp Guitars, and Let's Talk Hemp media platforms.

For the 4th year in a row, we dedicate one entire episode to celebrate the birthday of Ronnie James Dio. This year we are honored to welcome, the one and only Eddie Trunk. Listen in as Eddie spends some time remembering his friend, the late great, Ronnie James Dio and telling a couple awesome stories. From Australia, the heavy metal musician Paul Kaiser brings us two awesome Rainbow covers for this special show. You will love his versions of Man on the Silver Mountain and Kill the King. Join Randy and Troy, for this and every episode of Ouch You're on my Hair, and subscribe to the show on ApplePodcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Podomatic, Podbean, Google Play, Stitcher, or Player FM. You can find them on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Ouch, You're on my Hair is brought to you by Dirt Bag Clothing.

At the beginning of the 17th century the Ming empire was the largest and most powerful on earth. But in a newly global world they soon found themselves tied to the whims of global trade and a silver mountain half way around the world.

Okay, this one's kinda depressing.

Big thanks to this week's advertisers!Juli Zook with Silver Legacy Realty, Prospect Fitness, Silver Mountain, Radio Brewing, Kellogg Plastics, Twin City Furniture and Silver Valley Tire. The guys sit down with Prospect Fitness owner Monica Miller and have a spirited chat about Zumba, fitness, and New Year's Resolutions!Don't forget to visit www.shoshonenewspress.com and read the full stories talked about in the podcast! You can also check out our content on the new Shoshone News-Press App, available for download now on your mobile device!If you like what you hear, make sure to subscribe and leave a nice review on whatever platform you listen in on!

Jason and Don have a guest “Mikey” along for the ride. He likes it! Free range silver, wrecked Britney and humping furries in the glades are just some of the things we chatted about in this episode of Chairlift Chat!

Thanks to this week's advertisers!Shoshone Medical Center, Radio Brewing, Silver Valley Tire, Booch So Rad, Silver Mountain and Kellogg Plastics.The guys sit down with West Silver Valley Airshed ANALYST Dan Smith to chat about the wood stove change out program!Don't forget to visit www.shoshonenewspress.com and read the full stories talked about in the podcast! You can also check out our content on the new Shoshone News-Press App, available for download now on your mobile device!

Where is the largest amusement park in the Pacific Northwest? Silverwood, just outside of Coeur d'Alene Idaho. Find out more about this lakeside gem and tips for visiting Silverwood as Kim shares her family's experience this summer.  ON THE PODCAST 00:34 - Sponsor 01:40 - Kim’s trip to Idaho 10:08 - Tips for Silverwood Theme Park 15:36 - Where to stay 23:06 - Bike trail 25:38 - Winter activities 28:15 - Coming up TIPS FOR VISITING COEUR D’ALENE Silverwood amusement park could be considered  a hidden gem in the Pacific Northwest. It is also only about 30 minutes north of Coeur d’Alene. If you are visiting Silverwood and want to maximize your time, you can arrive early to the theme park before opening time and wait just inside for the park to open. This means that you can go right to a ride rather than waiting in line to get through the turnstile. Silverwood sells reusable water bottles and you get free refills all day long. The waterpark has lockers that you can rent for the day for 10 dollars and you can go in and out throughout the day. You should also think about bringing a pair of cheap flip flops to leave at the bottom of the slides. Make sure that these are extras not ones that you wore to the park in case the get lost or stolen. The park also offers towels that you can rent but it may just be easier if you bring your own to the park. La Quinta Inn & Suites is a really affordable option to stay. They have spacious rooms, an indoor pool and free breakfast. When you are planning when to go to Coeur d’Alene, make sure to check out when the Iron Man Marathon is going on because getting a room can get pretty expensive during that time. They can also sell out quickly. Outside of the theme park, the lake is a great way to spend an afternoon. You can go kayaking, rent jet skis, go on a float plane trip and more. If you are into biking at all; there is a gorgeous paved bike trail in Coeur d’Alene that will take you along part of the lake. Schweitzer Mountain offers a lot of different outdoor snow activities. Silver Mountain is more of a challenging mountain that doesn't have too many beginner runs, but they do offer activities like snowshoeing through the woods. MENTIONED ON THE PODCAST Allianz Travel Insurance Silverwood Theme Park La Quinta Inn & Suites The Blackwell Bed and Breakfast The Coeur d’Alene Resort FOLLOW US AND SPREAD THE WORD! If you liked this show, please be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play and leave us a review! Have a question or comment? Send us an email or leave us a voicemail at +1.641.715.3900, ext. 926035#. You can also follow our travels on Stuffed Suitcase and We3Travel, or follow the Vacation Mavens on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Thanks for listening!  

Join in on this awesome conversation with Morris Beegle, Co-Founder & President of WAFBA (We Are For Better Alternatives) Leading cannabis/hemp advocate and entrepreneur, Morris Beegle is the co-founder and president of the WAFBA (We Are For Better Alternatives) family of brands, including the NoCo Hemp Expo, one of the world's most comprehensive hemp-centric conferences and expositions. WAFBA also includes Silver Mountain Hemp Guitars, a manufacturer of boutique hemp guitars, cabinets and components, Tree Free Hemp, hemp paper and printing company, The Hawaii Hemp Conference, Hawaii's first hemp expo, and more. Spanning education, advocacy, manufacturing and entertainment, Beegle's endeavors are both pioneering and award winning, including NoCo Hemp Expo's title as Hemp Event of the Year by the Hemp Industries Association two years running (2017 and 2018). Traveling several continents, Beegle regularly engages audiences in N.A., Europe, UK, Nepal and beyond, presenting at a dozen or more hemp conferences each year.Check out the links!https://morrisbeegle.com https://www.instagram.com/silvermountainhemp/https://silvermountainhemp.com/

Vic runs through the cavern of Silver Mountain facing down the Fire Cult, searching for the others. He finds his allies as they come face to face with the leader of the fanatics and a dragon made of flame. Dungeon Master: JVD Kyle as Nexel Greenleaf Sean as Kaladir Wes as Hogar Kepplar Evan the … Continue reading Flames of Battle: Episode 20 →

Vic runs through the cavern of Silver Mountain facing down the Fire Cult, searching for the others. He finds his allies as they come face to face with the leader of the fanatics and a dragon made of flame. Dungeon Master: JVD Kyle as Nexel Greenleaf Sean as Kaladir Wes as Hogar Kepplar Evan the … Continue reading Flames of Battle: Episode 20 →

The fight through the tunnels of the Silver Mountain continues. Cultists, warriors and wizards assault the members of Ironskull as the fight on. How long can they last? Dungeon Master: JVD Kyle as Nexel Greenleaf Sean as Kaladir Wes as Hogar Kepplar Evan the Great as Victor Krexan III Check out our podcast The Last … Continue reading Flames of Battle: Episode 19 →

The fight through the tunnels of the Silver Mountain continues. Cultists, warriors and wizards assault the members of Ironskull as the fight on. How long can they last? Dungeon Master: JVD Kyle as Nexel Greenleaf Sean as Kaladir Wes as Hogar Kepplar Evan the Great as Victor Krexan III Check out our podcast The Last … Continue reading Flames of Battle: Episode 19 →

Warlord Palx leads the charge against the Fire Cult of Silver Mountain. Are they and Volo’s hired men enough to bring them down? Dungeon Master: JVD Kyle as Nexel Greenleaf Sean as Kaladir Wes as Hogar Kepplar Evan the Great as Victor Krexan III Check out our podcast The Last Tavern on the Left on … Continue reading Flames of Battle: Episode 17 →

Warlord Palx leads the charge against the Fire Cult of Silver Mountain. Are they and Volo’s hired men enough to bring them down? Dungeon Master: JVD Kyle as Nexel Greenleaf Sean as Kaladir Wes as Hogar Kepplar Evan the Great as Victor Krexan III Check out our podcast The Last Tavern on the Left on … Continue reading Flames of Battle: Episode 17 →

Nueva descarga de Suave es la Noche, bombardeamos los cielos con el mejor Rock de ayer y de hoy, despejamos la atmósfera de alergias y malas vibraciones. Desde Sevilla, en Radiopolis, a través de la 92.3 de la FM, Gervi Navío se atrinchera en la Torre abandonada, en la orilla maldita del río, increpando a la hipocresía y gritando libertad a pleno pulmón....vamos a pasar una hora de Rock sin concesiones, nada mas y nada menos Lista de Temas: 01-Man on the Silver Mountain. Rainbow 02-1%. Fist 03-Blues Hang Over. Slim Harpo 04-Love Hunter. Whitesnake 05-My eyes have seen you. The Doors 06-Road House. The Flamin´Groovies 07-Red light Mama, Red hot!. Humble Pie 08-La Herida. Héroes del Silencio 09-Little Girl, How old are you? Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimi Page & Brian Auger 10-Delmar. Los Natas 11-Lady Whisky. Wishbone Ash 12-Jingo. Santana 13-On Wheels of fire. Manowar Volvemos en 15 días, no olvidéis acelerar hacia vuestro destino, menos mal que Dios es Suave y esconde una botella de Bourbon de Kentucky bajo el asiento. Gervi Navío.

Silver Mountain Star is a 5 piece band out of Costa Mesa, California, with a distinct sound straight out of the 60s. However, they are also experimenting with different sounds and are on a continuous musical journey.Don’t let their young age fool you. Silver Mountain Star take their music very seriously, and have already been nominated for Classic Rock Magazine’s Top New Rock Band. They have a great future ahead of them.This amazingly fun Granted Radio episode is recorded at Granted Records, is hosted by Emo Alaeddin, Haz Alaeddin, and Alex Elespuru, and produced by Guy Babusek.Make sure to check out Granted Radio Nights, where we have a full line-up of local bands performing at your local OC dive bar. We are the hub of the OC music scene!If you like what we are doing and want to support the show, join us on Patreon where we upload performances done exclusively for our monthly patrons.This episode is sponsored by the CBD Online Store - the largest and best online CBD store. Buy CBD online with confidence from the best brands backed by 3rd party labs.

"El Valvador" Where The C Stands For Executive Producers: Sir Rogue-Viscount of the Palouse and Silver Mountain Whitey the Coder Gregory Pierce Mister E Anonymous Sir Joe of Delaware Associate Executive Producers: Anonymous Marc Lynn Alcocher Sir Tim of the Tunnels Katie Naeyaert Duke Thomas Nussbaum Erik Bird Sir Tony of South Jersey Sir Steve Become a member of the 1113 Club, support the show here Title Changes Sir Rogue Black Knight and Baron of the Paloodse and Silver Mountain -> Rogue Viscount of the Paloose and Silver Mountain Knights & Dames Dame Drea Art By: Darren O'Neill End of Show Mixes: - UKPMX - Gx2 -Oh My Bosh - Danny Loos-Secret Agent Paul-Stepford Wives-PlaceBoing- Dave Courbanou - Able Kirby - Jungle Jones - Chris Wilson - Tom Starkweather - Conan Salada - Future Trash - Phantomville Billy Bon3s Sign Up for the newsletter No Agenda Peerage ShowNotes Archive of links and Assets (clips etc) 1112.noagendanotes.com New: Directory Archive of Shownotes (includes all audio and video assets used) archive.noagendanotes.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noagenda/support

Whether you are a beginner or expert, boarder or skier, this week's podcast episode will help you plan your next family ski trip. Tamara shares her adventures in North Idaho and we chat with Amy Whitley from Pitstops for Kids and pick her brain on the best ski resorts in the U.S. for families. ON THE PODCAST 00:32 - Talking about Tamara’s trip to Idaho 01:50 - Schweitzer Mountain Resort 05:40 - Lookout Pass 08:30 - Silver Mountain 14:45 - Talking with Amy 18:20 - What to look for 24:33 - Favorite resorts in the Pacific Northwest 28:42 - Western favorite resorts 32:07 - Eastern favorites 37:43 - Amy’s all time favorite for beginners 41:44 - Mountains for advanced skiers 47:55 - Ski vs Snowboard 50:09 - Packing for our trip 52:40 - Renting gear 55:53 - Amy’s favorite ski gear 1:00:45 - Upcoming trips for Amy 1:01:45 - Follow Us!! ABOUT AMY WHITLEY Amy Whitley, founder ofPit Stops for Kids, is a family travel, outdoor adventure, and gear writer based in Southern Oregon. A lifelong lover of the outdoors, Amy helps families get outside with their kids in all seasons. Follow Amy on Facebook, Instagramand Pinterest. BEST SKI RESORTS FOR FAMILIES If you are planning a ski trip to North Idaho, Schweitzer Mountain Resortis the biggest when it comes to acreage. At the base of the mountain there is a small cute town that has some places to eat and great views of the lake. Keep in mind that if you are going to ski at Lookout Pass,that the mountain is on the border of Idaho and Montana. You will be able to ski in both states! But because of this you will be in two different time zones. Inside the lodge you will see clocks for both. But if you are traveling with a group and are going to seperate be sure to make sure you know which clock to go be or be sure you wear a watch. Your phone will automatically keep switching between the time zones unless you can change your settings. If you plan on visiting Silver Mountainbe aware that the terrain is a little more challenging. So if you and your family are pure beginners you may not want to visit this mountain until you have had more experience. But the mountain also has snowshoeing, a water park, and snow tubing. When you are deciding where to go for your ski vacation, you have to make your decision based on what you want to get out of your trip. For instance if you are a group that will mostly be on the mountain, you will want to make your choice by the terrain that the mountain offers. If your group wants to do more that just what is offered on the mountain, then you will need to look into what the resort offers in other adventure options to make your decision. You also need to assess the stay you want to experience. Whether it's your own lodge or a room in a small village/town or resort stay. Hoodoo Ski Areais a great place to go in the Pacific Northwest if you like the small family focused resorts. Mt. Baker Ski Areais also a great option for  family-focused resort. They are very chill and don’t have as much of the craziness that you will find at a lot of the big resorts. Lift tickets are also usually between $50 - 60 a day. Mt. Bachelor is a mountain that always seems to have a consistent amount of snow every year. Which can be a big deciding factor. Whistleris a great resort if you want the options to ski and out and there is a town at the base that you can explore. They have some good long runs and you can definitely find some beginner runs as well. And if you find it, they have a kids snow fort on the mountain. Utah seems to have the best snow consistently, and it is so easy to get to being that it has a hub airport. There are some great resorts for everybody like Deer Valleywhich has some great groomed runs, then there is Alta Ski Area that is more of a european feel to your experience. Though they only allow skiing at Alta no snowboarding! There is also Solitude Mountainthat is similar to Deer Valley in that they have that village feel while Alta is set up with all-inclusive lodges. Smugglers Notch Ski Resort is a great option on the east for families. When in comes to child care it has a great set up to keep your kids entertained after you are finished on the mountain. Jiminy Peakis also a great option in the east for families. The resort is not too large but it has a great value. Sunday River Ski Resortwhich is located in Maine has a unique ticket lift system. They have a pass that is just for beginner terrain so you are going to spend less money if you are not going to use the whole mountain. They also have a few other outdoor adventures besides skiing/snowboarding. Squaw Valleyis a great resort for beginners as well as some great long runs. They also have their ski schools up at the top of the mountain instead of being stuck at the bottom by the parking lot. Because of this you get to really experience the sights of being on the mountain. Northstar Resortis also a great option for beginners especially if you family has multiple levels of experience. If you are looking for a mountain that has some really great terrain parks Boreal ski resort is one of the first mountains that started with snowboarding and it has a Burton terrain park that is really advanced. They also have indoor training facilities for snowboarders and tricks gear which is called Woodward. There are also some mountains that have good boarding terrain like  Breckenridge, Solitude Mountain, Brighton, and Sierra at Tahoe. When picking your resorts/mountains keep in mind that if you have snowboarders Deer Valley, Alta Ski Areaand Mad River Glenare the only three that do not allow snowboarders! Packing for your ski trip can get a little cumbersome and everyone has a way they like best. That being said make sure to bring extra items like gloves, socks, hats, etc. in case the ones that were worn the day before are still wet or even if one gets lost. Whenever possible try to get your rental gear the day/night before the day plan to be on the mountain that way you can get all time you want out of your mountain time without the wait for just the gear. FAVORITE TRAVEL GEAR Amy loves to wear base layers either Smartwool or Hot Chillys are her favorites. Then her Columbiaski jacket and pants. She may also wear a Patagonia shell jacket over a down jacket to keep with the layers, rather than wearing one big jacket. MENTIONED ON THE PODCAST Family Camping - Episode 20 Best Ski Towns Round Up of Ski Resorts How to Afford Skiing as a Family Stevens Pass - Washington Keystone Resort - Colorado Okemo Mountain Resort - Vermont Lake Placid Ski Resort - New York Stowe Ski Resort - Vermont Mount Snow - Vermont Mammoth Mountain - California Brighton Ski Resort - Utah Cuddl Duds FOLLOW US AND SPREAD THE WORD! If you liked this show, please be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, orGoogle Playand leave us a review! Have a question or comment? Send us an email or leave us a voicemail at +1.641.715.3900, ext. 926035# You can also follow our travels on Stuffed Suitcaseand We3Travel, or follow the Vacation Mavens on Instagram, Facebookor Twitter. Thanks for listening!

Evil or Divine – Live in New York City — концертный альбом 2005 года хеви-метал-группы Dio, записанный в Нью-Йорке в 2002 году, видеозапись этого концерта была издана на DVD. Треклист: "Killing the Dragon" — 5:15 "Egypt (The Chains Are On)" / "Children of the Sea" — 8:46 "Push" — 4:04 Соло на барабане (только DVD) — 4:36 "Stand Up and Shout" — 4:03 "Rock & Roll" — 5:58 "Don’t Talk to Strangers" — 6:38 "Man on the Silver Mountain" — 3:07 Соло на гитаре — 8:51 "Long Live Rock and Roll" — 5:02 "Lord of the Last Day" (только DVD) — 4:25 "Fever Dreams" — 4:38 "Holy Diver" — 5:25 "Heaven and Hell" — 7:12 "The Last in Line" — 8:40 "Rainbow in the Dark" — 6:01 "We Rock" — 6:10 Участники записи Ронни Джеймс Дио — вокал Дуг Алдрич — соло-гитара Джимми Бэйн — бас-гитара Скотт Уоррен — клавишные Саймон Райт — ударные

RONNIE JAMES DIO - Evil or Divine – Live in New York City — концертный альбом 2005 года хеви-метал-группы Dio, записанный в Нью-Йорке в 2002 году, видеозапись этого концерта была издана на DVD. Треклист: «Killing the Dragon» — 5:15 «Egypt (The Chains Are On)» / «Children of the Sea» — 8:46 «Push» — 4:04 Соло на барабане (только DVD) — 4:36 «Stand Up and Shout» — 4:03 «Rock & Roll» — 5:58 «Don’t Talk to Strangers» — 6:38 «Man on the Silver Mountain» — 3:07 Соло на гитаре — 8:51 «Long Live Rock and Roll» — 5:02 «Lord of the Last Day» (только DVD) — 4:25 «Fever Dreams» — 4:38 «Holy Diver» — 5:25 «Heaven and Hell» — 7:12 «The Last in Line» — 8:40 «Rainbow in the Dark» — 6:01 «We Rock» — 6:10 Участники записи Ронни Джеймс Дио — вокал Дуг Алдрич — соло-гитара Джимми Бэйн — бас-гитара Скотт Уоррен — клавишные Саймон Райт — ударные

The idea for this episode came from Patreon. We talk about music and movies a lot on this show, so we're going to take a different approach and talk about some important books, short stories and poems that have helped lead me down this path.  Hopefully they can help you out as well. Reading List: Roll the Dice – Charles Bukowski Ask the Dust – John Fante Discipline Equals Freedom – Jocko Willink Nick Adams Stories – Ernest Hemingway The Road – Cormac McCarthy Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski The War of Art – Steven Pressfield Food of the Gods – Terence McKenna Supernatural – Graham Hancock All of HP Lovecraft The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer In Cold Blood – Truman Capote In the Belly of the Beast – Jack Henry Abbott The Shining – Stephen King The Ritual – Adam Nevil Intro : "Man on the Silver Mountain" - Rainbow Outro: "Dark River" - Coil

Happy 4th of July if you live in the United States. We’re going through some…interesting times, so hang in there my friends.   Last week, Tombs played Hellfest, one of the coolest, most well-run music festivals in Europe, if not the entire planet. Check out my rundown of the whole whirlwind of van rides, flights, bread, cheese and hard rocking.   Intro : “Man on the Silver Mountain” – Rainbow Outro : “Locust Star” - Neurosis

Time flies on broken wings. In this short episode I talk about turning half a century old, getting the work done, fear of death and the void, the disappointing attempt to watch Kalifornia late one night and some praise for David Fincher's future classic Fight Club   Brought to you by Savage Gold Coffee #staygold #blackcoffeeblues #savagelife

Another solo chat where I talk about Retrospective Introspection, achieving some of the Patreon goals, Judas Priest and Saxon, Everything You Love Will Burn and some upcoming Tombs stuff.   Brought to you by Savage Gold Coffee #staygold #savagelife #blackcoffeeblues

ANTIFA has been on everyone’s mind these days. They’ve prevented bands like Marduk and Taake from performing in certain US cities because of alleged fascist views; they’ve intimidated, threatened and vandalized their way into the consciousness of mainstream culture as well as the underground having been involved with the Charlottesville protests and sucker-punching alt-Right douchebag Richard Spencer which was captured on that viral Youtube clip that everyone was passing around. The question is, are they actually doing any good?  In this episode, I express my thoughts about ANTIFA. I thought I would get this out to you while I’m still able to speak my mind. I get into the following topics The Battle of Cable Street Is ANTIFA “is a major gift to the Right” as Noam Chomsky puts it? Real fascist groups that are alive, well and gaining power in the United States A slap in the face to Lenny Bruce and Max Hardcore

On the heels of the last episode with Mike Gitter, I headed into this real heavy nostalgia trip about my years in Boston.  I prepared some notes and went into this free-form riff about my years in the 90's living there, the bands I played in, the cast of characters that I met and some of the life-forming experiences I had. Brought to you by Savage Gold Coffee #staygold #blackcoffeeblues #savagelifestyle   Outro Track: The God Machine - "I've Seen the Man"

Happy Holidays Guys! I hope this finds everyone doing well and in good spirits. I give my best of 2017 list and get sentimental. Brought to you by Savage Gold Coffee #staygold #blackcoffeeblues

I'm back from tour, sorry for the lag in episodes, so I wanted to get at you guys with a Man on the Silver Mountain solo episode to riff on the tour, playing OzzFest and my adventures in the great outdoors. Brought to you by Savage Gold Coffee #staygold

This week, on Episode 4 of the After Action Project, we're bringing you into the student's seat of Silver Mountain Instruction's Force-on-Force Reality Based Scenario Training. For more information, or to register for a Silver Mountain Instruction course, visit https://www.sminstruction.com/. Follow Silver Mountain Instruction on Facebook @SilverMountainInstruction

This week, on Episode 4 of the After Action Project, we’re bringing you into the student’s seat of Silver Mountain Instruction’s Force-on-Force Reality Based Scenario Training. For more information, or to register for a Silver Mountain Instruction course, visit https://www.sminstruction.com/. Follow Silver Mountain Instruction on Facebook @SilverMountainInstruction

Pre-tour podcast.  I'm gearing up for a whole lot of roadwork with the band.  I hope to see you guys out there.  Thanks to all of the new patreon subscribers! The support is much appreciated. Without getting too paranoid, I get into some ideas about the Vegas shooting.   Brought to you by Savage Gold Coffee #staygold    

I've got another solo episode coming at you. I answer some listener question, explore some tangents, shit-talk Donald Trump and run down the various happenings. Brought to you by SAVAGE GOLD COFFEE #staygold

Keeping it lean as the summer winds down. I'm taking listener questions and talking about the ups and downs of making The Grand Annihilation.  Brought to you by Savage Gold Coffee #staygold

From time to time, I've been doing these solo episodes, so I decided to name it and commit to doing it a more regular basis.    Tour is over and its back to regular life.  The new Tomsb album is out, my solo project Vasilek has a debut EP "The Dark Road" coming out next month on Translation Loss.  Brought to you by Savage God Coffee #staygold  

Feat. Double Rainbow Guy! Music by Rainbow w/Man on the Silver Mountain and Catch the Rainbow... Elf w/the song Rainbow, Eddie money w/Jealousys, Zakk Wylde w/the Color Green... also Tenacious D w/POD... DIO w/Hide in the Rainbow

The MTBParks Bike Park News Podcast is back after a few weeks off! Michelle and Ben chat about what is going on behind the scenes at MTBParks.com, including the valuable MTBParks Pass, why it's important to support small businesses that you use, enduro, and more. Michelle also gives updates on parks, trails, and races to take note of.   If you're looking for bike park news, opening dates, trail reports, information about upcoming events, as well as a quick recap of what happened on the trails in the past week, this show is for you. The MTBParks Podcast covers lift accessed bike parks throughout North America in this weekly roundup with Mountain Bike Radio's Ben Welnak and MTBparks.com founder Michelle Good.    Want to get your park on the show? Contact us today at info@mountainbikeradio.com.    Related Show Notes: MTBParks Pass MTBParks.com Website MTBParks.com Facebook Page MTBParks.com Twitter MTBParks.com Instagram MTBParks.com YouTube MTBParks.com Vimeo YouTube.com/MTBparksVimeo.com/MTBparks Email Michelle at MTBParks.com Support MTBParks.com Save $$$, Get great stuff, and Support MBR by becoming a member     News:   New Trails:Mt Bachelor New TrailSnowbird New TrailNew Bike Parks:Discovery in Montana joins the gravity scene.Down the Road:Killington Gravity Logic Deal in the works?Beta Testing Reviews on MTBparks Site: Post your reviews of your bike park visits.SBA (Small Business Advertising) Program Just Launched.Designed for local Small Businesses looking to reach mountain bikers planning trips to their resort communities. Starting at just $300 - get your company listed through the end of 2015!   Upcoming Events:   UCI MTB World Cup 2014: Mont-Sainte-Anne, CanadaSaturday, August 2 at 11:15 am - 1:15 pm (PDT) - Downhill FinalsThe Championship heads to North America as the riders do battle on one of the most recognizable race tracks, Mont Sainte-Anne. Watch it LIVE on Red Bull TV!UCI World Cup | Windham, NY, USAYou can watch live on RedBull TV. Get the schedule and find a link on MTBparks.com Mountain Creek, NJ: Dirt Rock N Root Women's DH CampJoin Kathi and Dirt, Rock n Root Training for a series of 3 day women’s downhill clinics July 25-27 and August 22-24!  Riders will start by reviewing the core fundamentals and then move on to developing the key skills for conquering the mountain – descending position, cornering, braking.  You’ll work on how to pick the best line down the trail, and how to clear obstacles that you find along the way.  There will also be a GoPro video analysis of your riding, so you can literally see how you are improving!Windham, NY: POC ESC "Test Your Glory" World Cup DH Preview RaceHere’s another POC ESC DH Cup Race that you do not want to miss. The POC ESC "Test Your Glory" World Cup DH Preview Race presented by Clif Bar.That’s right, we’ll be breaking in the World Cup Track for the UCI World Cup coming to Windham just two weeks later. This will be you only opportuniy to race or ride this course this year. (unless you’re a WC Pro)Pro and Amateur practice will be separate so there will be plenty of time to get your lines dialed. The Race the World Course that the POC ESC will be racing during the World Cup Weekend will be open so you can get a jump on practicing that course as well. So you will be able to ride all day!!Silver Mountain, ID: Ladies Day Aug 2 | Silver Race Series #4 Aug 3   Come ride with Pro racers Jaime Rees and Chelsey Henry. This is your chance to pick up some basic tips on riding and race prep from two ladies who have raced downhill at the pro and world cup level! Structured as a group ride with some Q&A and a little bit of skill work, think of it as a chance to meet and ride with some like minded ladies.. Women of all ability levels are welcome!Cost: FreeMeet: 9:30 in the villageLift Ticket: $20 Winter Park, CO: July 25-27, 2014Part of the North American Enduro TourAs part of the Colorado Freeride Festival, the Specialized Enduro is a 3-day, 5-stage race that will showcase some of the world’s fastest, fittest, and most technical mountain bike athletes battling it out throughout the trail system of Trestle Bike Park.   On Friday, you can expect the World Enduro Series races to be completed by early afternoon. Saturday and Sunday there will be minimal impact on the trails open in the bike park and, by the way, we’re open until 7pm Wednesday through Saturday so there is plenty of time to GET YOUR RIDE ON!    Whistler, BC: August 9-10, 2014The SRAM Canadian Open Enduro presented by Specialized is part of the legendary 10 day Crankworx Whistler mountain bike festival. This much anticipated competition will showcase the world’s fastest and fittest mountain bike athletes competing for the largest prize purse in Enduro racing history. The race will feature both the Whistler Valley and the world famous Whistler Mountain Bike Park and the stages are regarded as some of the finest, most technical trails in the NAET. The five stage, single day format, with almost 50 minutes of racing, and approximately 50km of riding will be a true test of athletic endurance, versatility and mountain bike skills. August 17 Attitash NH NH State Championship  Highland Bike Park – Northfield, NH: August 24, 2014Triple Crown: The OverMountain Enduro is an event open to racers of all abilities. The 4 stage race spans across Highland Mountain- incorporating everything from trail riding to downhill. The course will challenge participants in both fitness and technical riding ability. The OverMountain Enduro puts the fun back into racing. Sept 7 Killington VT Eastern USA Regional ENDURO Championship Series Finals  Mountain Creek Bike Park – Vernon, NJ: September 14, 2014Triple Crown: The King of the Mountain Enduro race will be comprised of several timed “special” stages and non timed “transport” stages. The “specials” will consist primarily of downhill and technical sections but riders should expect to climb up to 10-20% of the total distance of each stage. The “transport” stages between each “special” will move riders from one area of the mountain to the other and may include some significant climbs. Burke Bike Park & Kingdom Trails - Burke, VT: September 28, 2014 Triple Crown: The 2014 Kingdom Enduro is a 3 stage race showcasing everything that the Burke Bike Park has to offer. From cross-country to single track to downhill, this race will test your endurance and technical skill. The race will be held Sunday, September 28, with a practice day scheduled for Saturday, September 27. The race will be divided into 3 stages consisting of timed specials and untimed transport sections. The Kingdom Enduro is the final stop in the Triple Crown Enduro Series   Big Mountain Enduro    Moab - August 23   Big Mountain Ultra Enduro at Crested Butte Big Mountain Enduro Finals: September 3 - 7, 2014The Crested Butte five-day Enduro is not for the faint of heart!Riders will be challenged with five days of racing, four of those days deep in the backcountry, with big climbing transitions that will literally take you to the top of the world overlooking majestic peaks. The fifth and final day of racing will be held at Evolution Bike Park, also where awards and festivities will culminate. This will be a stand alone event and not a part of the Big Mountain Enduro Series overall rankings. Registration for the Crested Butte Ultra Enduro will include five days of enduro racing in the backcountry, organized shuttles each backcountry day, lift ticket on the final day at the Evolution Bike Park, coffee and beer provided each day by our respective sponsors, breakfast and lunch each day, BME apparel kit, an annual subscription to Mountain Flyer Magazine, a large awards ceremony and an adventure experience of a lifetime.   Enjoy one complimentary, one-day lift ticket at each of these bike parks during the 2014 season. The list of bike parks offering one free day of riding this season–with your MTBparks Pass–is still growing, so be sure to check back often! Get the MTBParks Pass NOW (Use code "MTBradio" to get $10 off!)   RIDE FREE AT THESE PARTICIPATING BIKE PARKS: United States Colorado | Bike Snowmass @ Aspen/SnowmassOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season. MTBParks Pass holders also get a free Budweiser draft beer at the Elk Camp Restaurant.   Colorado | Evolution Bike Park @ Crested ButteOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.Idaho | Silver Mountain Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.Minnesota | Spirit Mountain Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.   Montana | Big Sky Mountain Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.New Hampshire | Attitash Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.New Mexico | Angel FireOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.New York | Plattekill Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season. 10% off recurring visits after you use your complimentary day.New York | Whiteface Bike Park One complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season. 10% off lift tickets all season long with your MTBparks Pass.Bike and Stay package coming soon!   Pennsylvania | Blue Mountain Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.Utah | Brian Head Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.Vermont | Burke Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.Vermont | Mount Snow Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.   Virginia | Bryce Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.Washington | Stevens Pass Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.West Virginia | Snowshoe Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season. Wisconsin | The Rock Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season. Wyoming | Grand TargheeOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season. CanadaNew Brunswick | Sugarloaf Bike ParkOne complimentary lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.   ADDITIONAL DISCOUNTS:   California | China Peak Bike Park 50% OFF LIFT TICKETS ALL SEASON for MTBparks Pass members in 2014.   Montana | Whitefish Bike Park50% of one lift ticket valid one time during the 2014 season.   New Jersey | Mountain Creek Bike Park50% OFF LIFT TICKETS ALL SEASON for MTBparks Pass members in 2014.   All Mountain Cyclery | Boulder City, Nevada50% off shuttles through the end of the year.   WANT EVEN MORE GREAT DEALS?   Ray's Indoor Bike Park | Cleveland, OH One FREE day pass to check out Ray's Bike Park in Cleveland (valid during 2014/2015 fall/winter season)   Ray's Indoor Bike Park | Milwaukee, WI One FREE day pass to check out Ray's Bike Park in Milwaukee (valid during 2014/2015 fall/winter season)   Canfield Brothers Bikes MTBparks Pass holders are eligible to receive a 15% discount on ANY purchase.   SR SUNTOUR SR Suntour's mission is to RIDE MORE WRENCH LESS and as an MTBparks Pass member they are offering 25% off MSRP on any of the company's performance suspension products EpiXon, Auron, Durolux or RUX. To learn more about SR Suntour's line, visit www.srsuntour-cycling.com. For questions or order placement contact our Madison, WI location, email service@usulcorp.com or call 608-229-6610. Please have your member ID available.

Shockwaves/HardRadio podcast #57: On this episode host Bob Nalbandian interviews guitar legend Marty Friedman, Bay Area metal band Electric Sister, and Silver Mountain founding guitarist/vocalist Jonas Hansson.