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Yes. Fat Skis + too many people + way overconcentrated high speed lift system = maybe 5-10 powder runs for your money. It's standard at any N. American resort with "decent" terrain (all 3 of them) No fucking thank you.

I second JayB's recommendation of any copy of Ascent. An eclectic collection of pictures, art, short stories, climbing stories, it has something for any mood. Better than all but a few accounts of the first free nude but for a penis gourd ascent of the direct north north east face of the blowhard in winter under the sign of Aquarius by a Gemini

yeah, whatever, my tiger penis was $3k last month. fuck that shit. market forces seem to work much better with elective cosmetic surgeries than they do with critical services. (note recent botox vs. mole check story). Funny how that is. Bankuptcy court is a poor means of subsidizing care.

No worse than Whistler on a powder day...... and unlike Whistler 99% of the Euro hordes will stick to the pistes leaving everything else for you.

If a treatment exists and you can't afford it, it doesn't matter, does it? Except to the Amgen tool spending $5k on the new Trek.

There hasnt been good snow below 2000m in a few years whered you get that?

There hasnt been good snow below 2000m in a few years whered you get that?

Weekend Whistler lifts are worse than anything I encountered in yurp except the Grand Montets on a powder morning. The one piece of consistant praise I heard for N. America was for the snow. A brit I know who seasoned in Whistler 04-05 after several years in france couldn't understand why everyone was complaining about the lack of snow that year, it was more than he'd ever seen in France For lift served slackcountry or partially lift served slackcountry europe > north america imo. there are many places of whistler caliber and others far better. The ability to pop into a hut pretty much everywhere makes for different, more accessible, multi-day winter touring. The other big change is the difference in the ski scene - skiing and even skitouring are family activities not constrained to singles and dinks 20-40 I like to travel to other countries. A weak dollar sucks

A retail study for the village done in '05 stated: curious to see how they define "regional" I still think Whistler at $83 is a POS ripoff compared to Chamonix or St Anton at $55, much less Stubai at $40 even in "lame" seasons. The cost of staying in those communities is similar to Whistler as well.

Oh for the glorious day when we have a new man! A homo economus! The soviets tried to create a new man (homo sovieticus) to make their system suceed. It didn't work. Mankind will always be irrational - wasting time on internet bulletainboards, overanalyzing their existance and the financia

I'll be curious to see what American visitor numbers are at Whistler this year. They are currently among the most expensive resorts in N. America for a day ticket ($82 US at todays rate) and that price is only going to go up.

Is available and costs money. Your point is?

A serious injury or chronic condition can easily cost, post insurance payment, 10-20% of your pretax income for a moderate earner not counting loss of wages I did say that's where a lot of people seem to be today... Oh, I wasn't disagreeing, merely emphasizing.

A serious injury or chronic condition can easily cost, post insurance payment, 10-20% of your pretax income for a moderate earner not counting loss of wages Sure people could buy some crap catastrophic plan that won't cover much if/when you get injured, which is when healthcare gets really expensive.

I've found the premiums relatively constant between states of residency.

Here's a response from one of the people mentioned in Stossel's obtuse demagoguery. My favorite parts, for those too lazy to click links: In your 'reporting' of this story, you did not contact me, and you did not contact my husband's doctors. [. . .] Instead of calling me up and doing real reporting, all you can do is throw around studies from 1999 about the supposed inefficiency of bone marrow transplants for breast cancer patients - even though Tracy didn't have breasts. He had kidney cancer! [. . .] You are simply carrying water for the for-profit insurance industry that killed my husband. And then you have the nerve to accuse me of "sneering" about it. My husband has only been dead since January 18th, 2006. It is still fresh to me and my family, and comments like this are inhumane. I am surprised Fox "News" hasn't snatched up this "Murrow-with-a-moustache." I've recently become curious what portion of American consumer debt (excluding car and home) is medical expense related. 10% 5%? More

I'm just posting to say I don't give a shit either fucking way. It's cheaper to fly to Thailand, get four crowns, climb for a week and fly home then it is to pay for the same procedure in the US and thats after insurance covers 60%

you didn't hand him a bunch of random papers on the subject and run?

me too, I'll be at your place round about 9

your mom

Because it's the Lowest Common Denominator

I'm hoping to sail for the next ski/surf trip The only Co2 will come from my piehole!

I vote forced sterilizations for the vealpens of Tacoma

That's their fault for a) Living in E. Bumfuck b) Being poor they could easily change both in America if they'd get off their lazy XXL sweatpants cut for a woman asses.

smiling whores?