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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 8, 9:54*am, pigo wrote:
On Dec 8, 10:30*am, Richard Henry wrote: How does the Conoco fuel meet the osygenate requirement without ethanol? *MTBE? I don't know. I know that they advertise it as "no ethenol" 100% gasoline, and that's why I buy it. I do know that ethenol is bad for the seals and stuff. It's also hard on an engine especially in high temps. It gets hot in Southern Utah. I get better mileage too. About 20%. But at 10 mpg I'll take it!!!!!! Holy ****. Brain Fried Bob Thompson claims to be worried about the "seals and stuff". But he drives a ****ing pussy truck that gets 10 mpg. Would one of you freaks PLEASE tell him to stop drinking? He has no clue whatsoever about how deranged he is. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 8, 9:54*am, pigo wrote:
On Dec 8, 10:30*am, Richard Henry wrote: How does the Conoco fuel meet the osygenate requirement without ethanol? *MTBE? I don't know. I know that they advertise it as "no ethenol" 100% gasoline, and that's why I buy it. I do know that ethenol is bad for the seals and stuff. It's also hard on an engine especially in high temps. It gets hot in Southern Utah. I get better mileage too. About 20%. But at 10 mpg I'll take it!!!!!! Better store it up. Conoco says they will start producing E10 soon to be in accord with Federal law. Th edelay had to do with changing out fuel tanks and distribution piping, since E10 can absorb water and there is therefore a risk of rust in older systems. I think you can still get non-ethanol gas at general aviation airports, but it is 100-octane or higher and leaded. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:36:01 -0800 (PST), Richard Henry
wrote: On Dec 8, 9:54*am, pigo wrote: On Dec 8, 10:30*am, Richard Henry wrote: How does the Conoco fuel meet the osygenate requirement without ethanol? *MTBE? I don't know. I know that they advertise it as "no ethenol" 100% gasoline, and that's why I buy it. I do know that ethenol is bad for the seals and stuff. It's also hard on an engine especially in high temps. It gets hot in Southern Utah. I get better mileage too. About 20%. But at 10 mpg I'll take it!!!!!! Better store it up. Conoco says they will start producing E10 soon to be in accord with Federal law. Th edelay had to do with changing out fuel tanks and distribution piping, since E10 can absorb water and there is therefore a risk of rust in older systems. I think you can still get non-ethanol gas at general aviation airports, but it is 100-octane or higher and leaded. Trying to find gas for my boat that do not contain "e" is a major problem |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:54:43 -0800 (PST), pigo
wrote: On Dec 8, 10:30*am, Richard Henry wrote: How does the Conoco fuel meet the osygenate requirement without ethanol? *MTBE? I don't know. I know that they advertise it as "no ethenol" 100% gasoline, and that's why I buy it. I do know that ethenol is bad for the seals and stuff. It's also hard on an engine especially in high temps. It gets hot in Southern Utah. I get better mileage too. About 20%. But at 10 mpg I'll take it!!!!!! 10 MPG? driving.... |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 8, 4:12*pm, Ted Waldron wrote:
In article , *Richard Henry wrote: On Dec 8, 9:54 am, pigo wrote: On Dec 8, 10:30 am, Richard Henry wrote: How does the Conoco fuel meet the osygenate requirement without ethanol? MTBE? I don't know. I know that they advertise it as "no ethenol" 100% gasoline, and that's why I buy it. I do know that ethenol is bad for the seals and stuff. It's also hard on an engine especially in high temps. It gets hot in Southern Utah. I get better mileage too. About 20%. But at 10 mpg I'll take it!!!!!! Better store it up. *Conoco says they will start producing E10 soon to be in accord with Federal law. *Th edelay had to do with changing out fuel tanks and distribution piping, since E10 can absorb water and there is therefore a risk of rust in older systems. I think you can still get non-ethanol gas at general aviation airports, but it is 100-octane or higher and leaded. * If the gasoline/fuel is dyed pink/red or green, a person should not get near the stuff for their car, because they can get in a huge trouble because aviation and ship diesel isn't tax the same way as gasoline/diesel for automobiles. There are some really hefty fines. * * *I remember in Southern California near Pacific Palisades there was a Gas Station that sold 130 Octane for the locals in the neighborhood with high performance sport cars, I forgot the price, but I think it was some absurd amount before Gas went way up, I think it was 6 or more dollars a gallon and that was 15-16 years ago. I remember sailors at Pt. Mugu getting in trouble for stealing gas because they did not know about the dye. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On 12/07/2010 09:23 PM, VtSkier wrote:
On 12/07/2010 09:16 PM, Richard Henry wrote: On Dec 7, 5:21 pm, Richard wrote: Icy and cold. More later. I need a shower. And a beer. Shower done, and I now have an icy cold Noche Buena in front of me, so here goes; Left at 5AM, arrived about 7:20. Stopped for gas before heading up the hill, but I should have waited - gas was cheaper in Big Bear that in Loma Linda. Sunny, cold and windless today. Locals said there had been 2 days of rain that soaked the snow without melting much of it, then they groomed the wet snow last night - and then it froze all the way to the ground. The result was icy washboard, rivaling New England's finest. I found the best conditions were where a lot of snowboards had already gone down, grinding the top surface into loose granular (note to snowboard haters - they do have a useful function). However, the boarders stayed away from the more interesting open runs, Exhibition and Showtime, so they stayed icy all day. After a couple of hours, I took the shuttle over to Snow Summit for a few runs. Same conditions there - icy surface being ground in places into loose granular. I shuttled back, made a few more runs, and then left about 2 PM when my feet started cramping from fighting the ice. No Coronado run tonight, just straight home - 132 miles. Poway plays in the Coronado Tournament Final tomorrow at 6:30 PM, and my wife has given me permission to skip her group's non=holiday party. Better than that at Killington last Friday after the rain. Guns started up as soon as cold enough and were used to resurface frozen surface. I found a few mounds of muck one of which caught me and enforced an over-the-handlebars type of roll. But up higher it was OK. I'm probably going to resample conditions tomorrow. I'll let you know. Mountains north of here got as much as 18" of blower which will be all blown off by tomorrow. Maybe the woods will begin to get good. Killington got about 6" of the light stuff. A buddy said it was good today. We'll see how tomorrow is. They should be blowing lots of snow and opening up more terrain with Skye Peak open by the weekend. Maybe tomorrow if I'm lucky. Ayup, I got lucky. Beautiful sunny day. COLD! 9 degrees at K-base and 7 at the top. Interestingly it was only windy in the parking lot. It was hell walking from my car to the lodge and from the lodge back to my car at the end of the day. Snow was great and soft. Never got skied off much until after 2PM. That's when I left since the light was getting flat at that hour too. A couple of spots had POWDER blowing up to my thighs. Skye Peak was open with Superstar chair running. Skyelark was open top to bottom with lower Bittersweet for those who don't like Lower Skyelark. The Superstar headwall and Middle Superstar to High Road were also open for a fair amount of skiing on that side. K-Peak is getting more open and better conditions by the day. Almost all of Snowdon is open except Great Bear and North Star (natural snow only). Rams Head should be open for skiing (lift is open to get from that base to the rest of the mountain) by the weekend. They are hitting Header very hard. It was almost skiable today. It probably was skiable, but I don't duck ropes onto a trail under a lift. It's just plain stupid. Way over east, Skyeship and Bear should be open by Christmas. Pico should open by the end of next week. Their snowmaking isn't yet up to the rest of Killington and so it takes longer for them to get open 100%. Then we got news that Syracuse got four feet with more to come on Friday. What a waste. It's FLAT in that part of New York state. I wonder if Whiteface got some of that lake effect snow. It would be good for them. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 8, 4:59*pm, Dick G wrote:
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:54:43 -0800 (PST), pigo wrote: On Dec 8, 10:30 am, Richard Henry wrote: How does the Conoco fuel meet the osygenate requirement without ethanol? MTBE? I don't know. I know that they advertise it as "no ethenol" 100% gasoline, and that's why I buy it. I do know that ethenol is bad for the seals and stuff. It's also hard on an engine especially in high temps. It gets hot in Southern Utah. I get better mileage too. About 20%. But at 10 mpg I'll take it!!!!!! 10 MPG? driving.... 03 GMC crew w 6.0. I could get more but I don't like to be behind anyone. Anyone might be the person that goes 10 under the speed limit, cruises in the left lane, doesn't signal, the usual. And I cruise at at least 5 over all the time. I've squeezed 13/14 out of it but that's rare. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Dec 8, 4:57*pm, Dick G wrote:
Trying to find gas for my boat that do not contain "e" is a major problem When I was in the boat and water skiing race thing, 100 octane fuel was the norm for racing. Aquired at nearby airports. These days I guess you can get fuel saver that you can add to gasoline then run it through yard equipment at the end of summer to keep seals from drying out. But I'm sticking with no ethonol for as long as I can get it. At the end of summer I just pour the 50/50 mixed gas for my chainsaw into my truck, a mostly full tank of course, and it runs fine. Usually about a gallon or so to 20-25 gallons of gas. |
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Trip report Bear Mt. - 12-7-10
On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:33:02 -0500, VtSkier wrote
this crap: Skye Peak was open with Superstar chair running. Skyelark was open top to bottom with lower Bittersweet for those who don't like Lower Skyelark. The Superstar headwall and Middle Superstar to High Road were also open for a fair amount of skiing on that side. How was Outer Limits? Vote for Palin-Brown in 2012. Repeal the nightmares. Merry Christmas everyone. God bless us all. |
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