Ridged for Your Displeasure | E79

About this episode

The episode discusses recent weather impacts on skiing, local sports culture, and various outdoor topics.

As a dirty high pressure ridge sits over the West, sending all the cold and snow to the east coast, the boys recount the past month and how it feels like an entire ski season has transpired. A grab bag of topics is covered this week including a Downieville mountain biker somehow getting lost on an out-and-back, the dying dream of the ski bum and instead take up wind sports in Florida, I-80 from San Francisco to Nevada ranking as the 8th most deadly highway in America and the ski patrol strike in Telluride ending with a whimper. Pow Bot asks, how long do you have to live somewhere to be considered a local? Core lords call in with some finders keepers stories and aggro locals in the lift line. A few DOPE or DERPs including drop bars on mountain bikes, Leadville 100, driving to the trailhead in ski boots, waxing your split board in one piece and poaching backcountry freshies at Sky Tavern. Also, Pow Bot pays tribute to the passing of Bobby Weir with the story of his very first Grateful Dead show at 16 years old.   3:00 – The last 25 days feels like the entirety of a full winter ski season, base build, pow, corn, melting and thinking about bikes again. 5:30 – Colorado off to its…

People in this episode

Hosts: Pow Bot, trail_whisperer

Topics covered

• skiing
• mountain biking
• weather patterns
• local culture
• backcountry skiing
• sports news

Keywords

• ski season
• mountain biker
• Colorado snowpack
• backcountry skiing
• wind sports
• local stories
• Grateful Dead

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Downieville, Florida, Telluride, Sky Tavern, Colorado, Nevada, America

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