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Mountain High threatened by wildfire
On 08/23/2016 10:43 AM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 5:40:52 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote: Did you ever go to what used to be called Ski Sunrise and is now Mountain High North? I went once. I read s story about a woman who skied down to the bottom (the lift is at the top, in the parking lot), got lost, and sent her 7-year-old daughter for help. I went up there once in the summer time when I was just touristing around in the mountains. Looked pretty bleak without any snow, which I guess most ski areas do. I found that Cal Tech/JPL has an observatory right next door, and the other end of that day in the mountains was at the Mt Wilson observatory. Table Mountain. Before I was a skier I drove up there ("Go to the far end of the Sunrise parking lot and go up the road that says DO NOT ENTER") to hire the maintenance staff -- CSC had just taken over the contract (body-shop type, designed to limit the cost to JPL/NASA by eliminating pension eligibility and other longevity benefits by turning over the CPFF contract every few years -- a truly chicken**** practice, presumably employed by NASA in all installations). It started snowing while I was up there, which bothered me. The snow-plow driver (one of the new hires) said it wouldn't be a problem, but if it was he'd go down the hill in front of me. My first actual snowfall experience. -- Cheers, Bev "I believe that forgiving [terrorists] is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting." - Norman Schwartzkopf |
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Mountain High threatened by wildfire
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 8:54:48 AM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote:
On 08/23/2016 10:43 AM, Richard Henry wrote: On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 5:40:52 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote: Did you ever go to what used to be called Ski Sunrise and is now Mountain High North? I went once. I read s story about a woman who skied down to the bottom (the lift is at the top, in the parking lot), got lost, and sent her 7-year-old daughter for help. I went up there once in the summer time when I was just touristing around in the mountains. Looked pretty bleak without any snow, which I guess most ski areas do. I found that Cal Tech/JPL has an observatory right next door, and the other end of that day in the mountains was at the Mt Wilson observatory. Table Mountain. Before I was a skier I drove up there ("Go to the far end of the Sunrise parking lot and go up the road that says DO NOT ENTER") to hire the maintenance staff -- CSC had just taken over the contract (body-shop type, designed to limit the cost to JPL/NASA by eliminating pension eligibility and other longevity benefits by turning over the CPFF contract every few years -- a truly chicken**** practice, presumably employed by NASA in all installations). It started snowing while I was up there, which bothered me. The snow-plow driver (one of the new hires) said it wouldn't be a problem, but if it was he'd go down the hill in front of me. My first actual snowfall experience. -- Cheers, Bev "I believe that forgiving [terrorists] is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting." - Norman Schwartzkopf A theme I learned growing up in Vermont - don't pass a snowplow - the road is much worse in front of it. |
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