Comments on: A Colorado Thaw Between Snowstorms

By: SummitCO_local

SummitCO_local — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:58:06 +0000

I have 12 days so far this season at A-basin. Breck opens Thursday. I enjoy living here.

Just got my nat gas / lp generator so I can power my well pump and (important for the wife!) garage door opener.
If the electric grid shuts down, the ski areas can run the lifts on diesel for some time. After that I will freeheel uphill to earn my turns while getting vitamin D from the sun.

Some local pictures here. I will update with ski pics soon. http://mostlyco.blogspot.com/

Investments: food, fuel, family, metals (in hand), and long some miners.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:07:41 +0000

Interesting post on peak oil in time for Copenhagen Eco SUmmit:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/peak-oil-international-energy-agency/print

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:24 +0000

Aloha All

Today’s title brings to mind Mae West’s old invitation about the holidays.
Had a nice talk with daughter at Dartmouth and she misses the snow and sun.
Getting down into the 20s at 6397 feet and dark early, so we throw another homesplit log in the Country Stove. Breckenridge brings back nice memories, as do Aspen Onion, Boulder, Durango, Estes Park Stanley, Evergreen, Glenwood Ouray Pagossa Steamboat Springs and San Juan Skyway, with Ouray allegedly the hideaway for Atlas Shrugged. Florida Key West a nice town with the Audubon House, coconuts, Fisher Maritime Museum, fishing, Buffett Hemingway Margaritaville, hurricanes and lots of feral cats.

Qs are PnF targeting 78, SPX 1295 and Crude 115, while GS 150 and Gold 1005.
Time always tells.

Thanks for the interesting political economy essays, particularly the Mish, which was passed on to Amherst List Serve, which tends to be left of center.

Re flu, 15 minutes of sunlight a day or 5000 IU of Vitamin D said to provide immunity. Hope so, if indications of reverse engineering from 1918 or lethal mutations are noted. Baxter Austria sued for passing weapons grade flu hybrids with adjuvant to 18 countries for human incubation and genetic reassortment to make it more contagious and lethal. http://www.theflucase.com/

Meanwhile, enjoying the manic rally while it lasts…

Regards*Rich

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:48:06 +0000

Chris,

Unequivocally disturbing. Combined with the Ukrainian illness outbreak, the stockpile of large plastic containers known as “FEMA coffins,” the tale of Joseph Moshe, the Federal Reserve, the inevitable bankruptcy of the United States, the worsening corn and soybean harvest here in the Midwest, &c., &c., I would say that “something wicked this way comes.” It smells like martial law and all its attendant glories (like food rationing and forced labor).

But who knows. Perhaps the X-Men will save us.

As for me, I’m thinking about joining the Freemasons.

Yours,
Chris

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:51:08 +0000

Rick,
You might find your fellow Coloradan’s pics & writing interesting: http://christinesmith.us/wordpress/2009/05/08/the-colorado-mountains-in-springtime-photos-the-music-of-italy/

As I tell Christine, all of you that like living in cold places should have your heads examined, I’ll take the nice warm Caribbean, thank you.

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You and my wife, Darren. She wants to live in the Florida Keys — a long, long way from the ski slopes. RA

By: Vance

Vance — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:46:03 +0000

Hello Rick,
My family had season passes at Breckenridge in the mid- 1970s after moving here from Chicago. The Family season pass was $125 for each adult and $75 for each child, our family of five total was $475. Gasoline and Marlboros were about the same price ( 60 cents ), I gave up the butts at $2.75. I remember one of the old two seater chairlifts near the top peak B (with a wooden back) would give off a static electric shock if the wind blew hard enough on the ride up.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:28:38 +0000

Hey Chris,
What’s your take on the FEMA camps? I have been in study of these for quite some time and find it very disturbing.

Thanks,
Chris

By: richard dudley

richard dudley — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:23:29 +0000

Arch Crawford is predicting the biggest calamity the world has ever seen around July 27, 2010. 60 minutes had a story on the vulnerability of the power grid last night. It seems to me India, China or Russia was responsible for the grid blackout in Brazil, and if that happens to New York this July…imagine elevators not working,etc.
Time to get a cabin with lots of provisions NORTH of Manhattan..Connecticut, New Hampshire. Lots of lake water and deer to hunt. Canada a short drive.

By: Christ T.

Christ T. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:03:41 +0000

It’s good to see that yard work isn’t keeping the post from being written

Agree with Chris, its nice to read something diverting for a change.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:01:53 +0000

That…was a very nice post. I’ve spent the day reading about FEMA camps, so the photo and the post was a nice antidote. In my youth, for many consecutive years our family made a yearly pilgrimage to the Rocky mountains to ski. We stayed in different places every year, Aspen, Vail, &c. One year we even stayed in Dillon in order to ski a variety of mountains. My father, though he has since mellowed, insisted on us being first on the hill no matter where we went. This, of course, resulted in a lot of early mornings. As a kid it seemed rather type-A. But only until we would descend into something like the back bowls at Vail after a heavy, overnight snowfall. Then it was pure pleasure. Some time later I wound up in Tahoe. I lived there for five years and skied at least forty days per.

I miss the snow.