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Sad, very sad, My heart goes out to her family and friends.
It is an object lesson though. To quote the code: "Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment" -- I ski, therefore I am "lal_truckee" wrote in message . com... http://www.tahoebonanza.com/article/...17/0/FRONTPAGE ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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PS the body count here on the east side is at 5 and counting. Here is an
article about the latest. http://www.mammothlocal.com/news/ano...t_ski_area.php -- I ski, therefore I am "Wayne Decker" wrote in message ... Sad, very sad, My heart goes out to her family and friends. It is an object lesson though. To quote the code: "Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment" -- I ski, therefore I am "lal_truckee" wrote in message . com... http://www.tahoebonanza.com/article/...17/0/FRONTPAGE ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Wayne Decker wrote: Sad, very sad, My heart goes out to her family and friends. It is an object lesson though. To quote the code: "Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment" There is no "device to prevent runaway equipment" that will allow you to carry a snowboard. Snowboard leashes are maybe a foot long at most. |
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Mary Malmros wrote:
Wayne Decker wrote: Sad, very sad, My heart goes out to her family and friends. It is an object lesson though. To quote the code: "Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment" There is no "device to prevent runaway equipment" that will allow you to carry a snowboard. Snowboard leashes are maybe a foot long at most. I was wondering. Sounds like a potential market for an entrepreneur with the right sales pitch. |
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lal_truckee wrote:
Mary Malmros wrote: Wayne Decker wrote: Sad, very sad, My heart goes out to her family and friends. It is an object lesson though. To quote the code: "Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment" There is no "device to prevent runaway equipment" that will allow you to carry a snowboard. Snowboard leashes are maybe a foot long at most. I was wondering. Sounds like a potential market for an entrepreneur with the right sales pitch. Actually there exists a really neat snowboard leash which would have solved the problem. It's a coiled cable, like the cell phone charger in your car. This it to keep it out of the way when in use. It's attached to the board at the front binding so that it doesn't interfere when you keep the board on when getting on a lift, but unsnap from the rear binding. It's attached to your leg just below the knee via a velcro strap that goes around your leg, so that you can leave it attached to yourself when you are unsnapped from both bindings and carrying your board. The dudes who walk up the halfpipe use this type of restraint (if they use anything at all, most don't) The technology is there, the population just has to be convinced that it works and it solves a problem. VtSkier |
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VtSkier wrote:
The technology is there, the population just has to be convinced that it works and it solves a problem. Well, something like one of their own getting killed is unlikely to convince anyone. How about maybe promoting the idea that it keeps your lowrider pants from falling off completely? (You getting any freshies from this weather pattern? Yahoo news had an interesting headline couple of days ago - something like: "Traffic Snarled on East Coast in Anticipation of Storm.") |
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lal_truckee wrote:
VtSkier wrote: The technology is there, the population just has to be convinced that it works and it solves a problem. Well, something like one of their own getting killed is unlikely to convince anyone. How about maybe promoting the idea that it keeps your lowrider pants from falling off completely? (You getting any freshies from this weather pattern? Yahoo news had an interesting headline couple of days ago - something like: "Traffic Snarled on East Coast in Anticipation of Storm.") My wife came up from Boston last night to southwestern NH where my daughter lives and I drove down from here. There was nothing happening anywhere last evening. Nothing was happening at 4AM when I got up to pee. There was 3 inches of snow on the truck at 8 AM when we got up for eggs benedict. When we got home here about 3PM, there was barely 1/2" on the ground. As for east coast traffic being snarled. Boston driver snarl at 1/2" and I think they got a foot and a half. Total disaster as far as they are concerned. However, they got enough snow to make them think about skiing instead of golf. This, like the furry little beast seeing his shadow guarantees 8 more weeks of winter. Or rather 8 more weeks of ski season because it will honk up the city folks to come up and ski our man-mad EasternFirm(tm). Speaking of which, Killington has a policy of using less air in their snow-making operations. This has the tendency to create slurpies instead of snow. They now lay this down in huge whales, let the water drain out and then spread the whales with groomers. Covers the mountain and, if brass is correct, costs less to do so. Apparently compressing air is the most costly part of the operation. Even more than the diesel fuel for the groomers. It was so much better when policy was to re-surface the slopes using the best they could make and spread it evenly. It was even fun to ski under guns when they were doing it this way. Not any more. |
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lal_truckee wrote: Mary Malmros wrote: Wayne Decker wrote: Sad, very sad, My heart goes out to her family and friends. It is an object lesson though. To quote the code: "Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment" There is no "device to prevent runaway equipment" that will allow you to carry a snowboard. Snowboard leashes are maybe a foot long at most. I was wondering. Sounds like a potential market for an entrepreneur with the right sales pitch. First you gotta design it, though. A snowboard leash has one end attached to the binding. The other end either ends in a clip that clips onto a ring that's on a bootlace, or wraps around the ankle. You'd have to have something that could extend somehow, or would wrap around a wrist or something, maybe. |
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Mary Malmros wrote:
lal_truckee wrote: I was wondering. Sounds like a potential market for an entrepreneur with the right sales pitch. First you gotta design it, though. A snowboard leash has one end attached to the binding. The other end either ends in a clip that clips onto a ring that's on a bootlace, or wraps around the ankle. You'd have to have something that could extend somehow, or would wrap around a wrist or something, maybe. VtSkier pointed out one product, up thread; which reminded me of the righting rope on my sailboard mast - outer flexible cylinder is the strain "rope" and inner bungee compresses the whole thing so it's out of the way normally - something like that would probably work as well. Still, the real trick is getting them to use it. (P.S. My spell checker wants to replace "Malmros" with "Primrosed." Apropos or No?) |
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