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Old December 6th 10, 06:42 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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On 12/06/2010 12:37 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:27:10 -0500, wrote
this crap:

On 12/06/2010 11:41 AM,
wrote:
On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:54:26 -0500, wrote
this crap:

On 12/06/2010 09:38 AM,
wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 05:22:35 -0800, "Bob wrote
this crap:

wrote:
Why his mommy moved him to Seattle is beyond me.
Why would anyone live in Seattle? (Except if you're 9th Division.)

Because it's a hell of a lot better climate than Detroit or Boston.

What? Are you nuts? Have you ever been to Detroit?

Almost never
hot and humid together.

What's wrong with that?

Almost never snows in town, but lots of great hills
within a couple hours with huge snow dumps compared to Detroit, measured in the
hundreds of inches some years. Because it has REAL mountains nearby. Because
there is water for whitewater playing year round.

Water? Near Detroit? I guess you never heard of the Great Lakes. Look
it up. There are more boats registered in Michigan than in all other
states combined. Michigan has over 2000 miles of shoreland. That's
more than the Eastern seaboard and the Western seaboard combined.

Do the math. For much of the eastern seaboard, there is a
system of barrier islands in addition to the mainland coast

I'm not talking islands. I'm talking coastline. Look at a map.
Michigan is two peninsulas with a total coastline of over two thousand
miles. The Lake Superior coastline is greater than the California
coastline.


No you are talking shoreline.

Islands have shoreline/coastline suitable for parking
boats in abundance. They do count. The barrier
islands by and large have bridges and/or
causeways to them so you can drive to get to your
boat. There are sizable towns on barrier islands where
you can buy your beer. Islands certainly do count.
Then go back to navigable rivers that I mentioned.
Since your water around Michigan is not salt, you
cannot deny the non-salt to brackish water around
the points, peninsulas and islands which all have
shoreline which counts are part of rivers. There
are certainly many boats parked around these shore
areas in the east.

And then I'm not sure if Youpers actually consider
themselves to part of Michigan, political boundaries
aside.



You want shoreline? Michigan has more lakes than any state except
Minnesota.


You call those puddles "lakes"?


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