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My wife and I skied Jackson Hole yesterday. I had a corporate pass from the local hospital I work for so my skiing was free. Since we are passholders at Grand Targhee, which is part of the Mountain Collective group,we get 50% off full price tickets at Jackson Hole, so we thought we would take advantage of the deal and my wife could ski with me. Of course, no major ski resort publishes their ticket prices anymore and they fluctuate during the season, but we thought that a random Monday in January wouldn't be the highest priced day of the season. My wife had to call to make her reservation and when I asked how much her 50% off ticket was, she hesitated to tell me. $101 American pesos! Unbelievable! That puts their daily pass on a random non-holiday midweek day at $202 dollars!
Talk about a privileged sport for the wealthy! Maybe I should take up Polo or auto racing! Thank dog for XCD skis, old boots and national forest land I don't blame the counter-culture meadow skipping hippies for buying second hand gear and army surplus wool knickers, and refusing to support these ski "concessionaires" using our public mountains and nature's snow to make millions in profits from ski resort real estate and shitty burgers! Rant over...
You should look at getting an overseas Army civilian RN gig and a Dolomiti Superski Season Pass is just under a grand but covers 450 lifts in 12 ski resorts. Plus you get 30 grand a year tax free housing allowance.
We saw this below at the Florence Nightingale museum of nursing in London, I got dragged to it (dragged out of the pub that is) but it was actually quite an interesting museum.
You should look at getting an overseas Army civilian RN gig and a Dolomiti Superski Season Pass is just under a grand but covers 450 lifts in 12 ski resorts. Plus you get 30 grand a year tax free housing allowance.
You're right on Randoskier! I told my wife that very thing while were at Jackson. Not about working in Europe, but that a ski vacation to the Dolomites or Pryenees would be way cheaper than Jackson Hole, or Vail for that matter! Might have to plan one for next season. I'm already scouring the internet! St Lary, a modest ski area in the Pyrenees, just 35 lifts, 4 resorts and 5 mountains, lift tickets $265 US dollars, FOR THE ENTIRE 6 DAYS OF SKIING! Of course that's per person
You should look at getting an overseas Army civilian RN gig and a Dolomiti Superski Season Pass is just under a grand but covers 450 lifts in 12 ski resorts. Plus you get 30 grand a year tax free housing allowance.
You're right on Randoskier! I told my wife that very thing while were at Jackson. Not about working in Europe, but that a ski vacation to the Dolomites or Pryenees would be way cheaper than Jackson Hole, or Vail for that matter! Might have to plan one for next season. I'm already scouring the internet! St Lary, a modest ski area in the Pyrenees, just 35 lifts, 4 resorts and 5 mountains, lift tickets $265 US dollars, FOR THE ENTIRE 6 DAYS OF SKIING! Of course that's per person
That is an insane price!!! This was a family sport in the USA when I was young, now it ain't. If you need any hints while planning pm and ask; we have skied all over here. Good luck and stay safe from Covid.
I can't get on board with being mad at a leasee doing exactly what they said they'd do, and I like it 10000x better than mining.
Mining is 1000x less damaging to the land than grazing.
There are 2700 acres of mine tailings 1.5 miles east of Park City containing concentrations of heavy metals that affect ground water in a much larger area. We've had problems associated with the tailings at the local middle school as well. One of the problems with tailings is that it takes poisonous heavy metals, which are dilute in the ground and then concentrates them enough that they then become very dangerous. Very large areas in South America and the Tibetan plateau have also been lost to agriculture, with towns abandoned due to the toxic effects of lithium production, which takes about 500,000 gallons of water per ton to produce. Cobalt mining in Congo is another disaster on a daily basis.
It seems unlikely that grazing has three orders of magnitude greater affects than that. https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/case-su ... -superfund
Mining is 1000x less damaging to the land than grazing.
What do you mean? Grazing is temporary and hardly affects groundwater or soil composition while mining is permanent and releases heavy metals onto the surface and into the water table. The effects of sulfide mining are even worse. I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to say
Mining is 1000x less damaging to the land than grazing.
What do you mean? Grazing is temporary and hardly affects groundwater or soil composition while mining is permanent and releases heavy metals onto the surface and into the water table. The effects of sulfide mining are even worse. I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to say
Mining is really, really bad. But I lived and worked in southeast New Mexico in the Permian Basin for a while. Having seen photos of the area from a century earlier compared to what it looks like now, I don't hesitate to say that unfettered grazing can destroy a land. Also, cows need to drink, and grasses and grains need water to grow, so the aquifer for the whole western Plains area is seriously stressed and unlikely to recover, at least not in our or our children's children's lifetimes. About as temporary as the inflation in the world.
I can't get on board with being mad at a leasee doing exactly what they said they'd do, and I like it 10000x better than mining.
Mining is 1000x less damaging to the land than grazing.
There are 2700 acres of mine tailings 1.5 miles east of Park City containing concentrations of heavy metals that affect ground water in a much larger area. We've had problems associated with the tailings at the local middle school as well. One of the problems with tailings is that it takes poisonous heavy metals, which are dilute in the ground and then concentrates them enough that they then become very dangerous. Very large areas in South America and the Tibetan plateau have also been lost to agriculture, with towns abandoned due to the toxic effects of lithium production, which takes about 500,000 gallons of water per ton to produce. Cobalt mining in Congo is another disaster on a daily basis.
It seems unlikely that grazing has three orders of magnitude greater affects than that. https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/case-su ... -superfund
The choice is not between mining and an over-priced consumer gouging rip-off of a ski area. That is an illogical way to frame it.
Mining is 1000x less damaging to the land than grazing.
What do you mean? Grazing is temporary and hardly affects groundwater or soil composition while mining is permanent and releases heavy metals onto the surface and into the water table. The effects of sulfide mining are even worse. I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to say
true because the alps has quite a bit of grazing and is fairly pristine
I don't blame the counter-culture meadow skipping hippies for buying second hand gear and army surplus wool knickers, and refusing to support these ski "concessionaires" using our public mountains and nature's snow to make millions in profits from ski resort real estate and shitty burgers! Rant over...
