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DanoT

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What a badly planned event! :nono: I've seen some that give people three hours off in the middle of the day and have an evening session. Not this one! I guess you are supposed to skip out surreptitiously and "network" on the lift.

There is an annual medical specialists conference held at Sun Peaks. All of the doctors bring their families and then spouse and the kids are the ones getting the most skiing.

I don't know if this group of docs do it but it wouldn't be too difficult to schedule late afternoon or evening lectures.
 

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IEEE are electrical and electronics engineers. I thought double E's were too twitchy to be good skiers. Everybody knows the best engineer skiers are chemical engineers.
 

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IEEE are electrical and electronics engineers. I thought double E's were too twitchy to be good skiers. Everybody knows the best engineer skiers are chemical engineers.

I'd like to disagree vehemently with that, but......... I'm not a very good skier.

I will vehemently deny being twitchy though!!!
 

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IEEE are electrical and electronics engineers. I thought double E's were too twitchy to be good skiers. Everybody knows the best engineer skiers are chemical engineers.

Everybody (at least all those from the other engineering disciplines) know that Chemical Engineers are too "loopy" from all those chemicals to be the best of breed. :D

I'm a twitchy EE and an admitted honest crap skier (in another thread), but I do know quite a few other EE's who are excellent skiers.
 

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So this is how engineers trash talk.

Everybody (at least all those from the other engineering disciplines) know that Chemical Engineers are too "loopy" from all those chemicals to be the best of breed. :D

I'm a twitchy EE and an admitted honest crap skier (in another thread), but I do know quite a few other EE's who are excellent skiers.

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So this is how engineers trash talk.

No, this is (copied from a Reddit thread) :

Yo mamma so fat her weight exceeds the yield point of all known wheelchairs.

Yo mamma so fat she can couple a radio to ELF signals just by touching it.

Yo mamma so stupid she specs soft metal bolts for highly torqued applications.

Yo mamma so stupid she despises the metric system.

Yo mamma so greedy she uses proprietary connectors for all her user inputs and outputs.

Yo mamma is so fat her rated insulation voltage is 100kV.

Yo mamma is so fat putting a fan next to her makes an effective 10k btu/h heater.

Yo mamas so stupid she uses a series chain of linear regulators to step down line voltage.

Your mother is so large, she has an increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and a plethora of other diseases. I suggest that she look into eating a healthy diet and adding an exercise regimen to begin losing weight and balancing her macro and micro nutrients to promote healthy living and a long, fruitful life.
 

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I was looking at some of the terrain at Big Sky on the Fatmap app, and there is a bunch of interesting but very serious terrain that is would be great to have a guide for - as in probably an actual certified mountain guide, not just someone to show us around (I'm think of the rock creek and lone lake cirque areas). Does anyone know if there are guide services at Big Sky that take people out to that sort of terrain, and would anyone be interested in joining together to do something like that. Obviously we'd wait until we had a better idea of conditions etc.
 

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I was looking at some of the terrain at Big Sky on the Fatmap app, and there is a bunch of interesting but very serious terrain that is would be great to have a guide for - as in probably an actual certified mountain guide, not just someone to show us around (I'm think of the rock creek and lone lake cirque areas). Does anyone know if there are guide services at Big Sky that take people out to that sort of terrain, and would anyone be interested in joining together to do something like that. Obviously we'd wait until we had a better idea of conditions etc.
No need for guides. Enough locals willing to share. Patrol is really friendly too.
 

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IEEE are electrical and electronics engineers. I thought double E's were too twitchy to be good skiers. Everybody knows the best engineer skiers are chemical engineers.
Disagree. I'm a double E and don't think I'm twitchy.
Consider myself a good skier though some may disagree !
 

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Guides to the steeps are available but they cost the equivalent of a full day private lesson. Lots of locals are friends of PugSki and the old ESA days so there should be plenty of volunteers to help. There are definitely places on the mountain that most skiers will benefit from a guide. Minor irritations like Cliffs to avoid etc. Also either bring you own Avi Gear or rent at Lone Mtn Sports if you want to ski a couloir or the Snow Field.
Those who haven't been to BS in a few years will enjoy the recent improvements. No radical changes but a lot of rough edges have been smoothed off in the past few years.
Looking forward to seeing old friends.
 

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What a badly planned event! :nono: I've seen some that give people three hours off in the middle of the day and have an evening session. Not this one! I guess you are supposed to skip out surreptitiously and "network" on the lift.

+1. Have been at BS for the Alabama Dental Ass'n conference (another big one - surprisingly) - they have lectures from 7-9:30 and 4-6:30 or something like that (I'm not an Alabama dentist) - funny watching people troop in in their ski boots and clothes right off the lifts.
 

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When we last attended a Gathering at Big Sky, we had a day or two planned at Moonlightl Basin. I'm assuming that the joint venture between Big Sky and Moonlight Basin allow access between the two.

Edit: change Minearal to Moonlight.
 
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Mineral = Moonlight
 

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When we last attended a Gathering at Big Sky, we had a day or two planned at Moonlightl Basin. I'm assuming that the joint venture between Big Sky and Moonlight Basin allow access between the two.

Edit: change Minearal to Moonlight.

Same lift ticket - you can ski back and forth all day long.
 
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