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by specialp
Feb 17th, '22, 10:14
Forum: Chatter
Topic: Pico Fireplace
Replies: 7
Views: 1305

Re: Pico Fireplace

The sign implies that it was a covid thing from last year, since people congregate there. Obviously we're not out of the pandemic yet, but if they're having live music in the bars and Olympic watch parties, then there's no reason they should keep the fireplaces closed. It didn't say anything about ...
by specialp
Feb 7th, '22, 15:12
Forum: Chatter
Topic: Pico Fireplace
Replies: 7
Views: 1305

Pico Fireplace

I was just at Pico this weekend and noticed there was a sign prohibiting fires in the nice fireplaces they have there in the lodge. Anyone know what happened there? Is this a temporary thing or is the fireplace at Pico finally dead?
by specialp
Mar 23rd, '21, 14:30
Forum: Chatter
Topic: Camelback Nightmare
Replies: 10
Views: 2373

Re: Camelback Nightmare

Places like this and mountain creek have always disgusted me. They put dollar signs before safety ALL THE TIME. They don’t give a sh*t, and haven’t given a sh*t in years. In addition during this pandemic they did nothing to ensure social distancing on the weekends. Packed em in like sardines. Terri...
by specialp
Mar 30th, '20, 07:05
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now
Replies: 2078
Views: 118030

Re: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now

I am from NY. I was on here early arguing with people that thought this was overblown and like the flu, we are taking it seriously. People here are taking it pretty well considering how bad it is here. It is not that NY'ers are somehow stupid, it is that we have a lot of people come through the city...
by specialp
Mar 17th, '20, 08:12
Forum: Chatter
Topic: Would IKON/ Epic/Killington now adjust pass policies?
Replies: 19
Views: 2361

Re: Would IKON/ Epic/Killington now adjust pass policies?

They can throw me some beast bucks next season but don't expect anything. I wouldn't want anything if suddenly it became 80 degrees every day and every mountain had to close. It is as if that happened here. This is a disaster. So me losing out on the rest of the season here in mid march isn't the en...
by specialp
Mar 13th, '20, 16:04
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now
Replies: 2078
Views: 118030

Re: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now

Yes she works for a private sector lab. The issue is though they do not have enough reagents to test many people. It is not really the effort or cost. If we can get more supplies to labs we have ample capacity to test a lot of people. The problem at the moment is even if you have obvious COVID sympt...
by specialp
Mar 13th, '20, 15:54
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now
Replies: 2078
Views: 118030

Re: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now

I've worked in diagnostics and my wife is running COVID samples as we speak. It does not cost $1300 a patient to test for any technical reason. That is the going rate when there's no scale or market (IE the few thousand tested so far). If supplies were widely available and enough samples were run it...
by specialp
Mar 10th, '20, 10:06
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now
Replies: 2078
Views: 118030

Re: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now

It is untrue that all of the COVID confirmed cases were hospitalized people. We have confirmed positive people in the USA at home quarantined so that is provably false. Hospitalized means admitted to a hospital. Here's the stats for the past: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm#table1...
by specialp
Mar 10th, '20, 07:30
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now
Replies: 2078
Views: 118030

Re: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now

One thing everyone saying "The flu kills 10s of thousands every year" needs to know is proportionality. You know 2:100 > 200:100000. Tens of millions are infected with the flu every year. So if 40 million get the flu a year, and 50k die, that is a quite low rate. There is nothing to show t...
by specialp
Mar 9th, '20, 10:32
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now
Replies: 2078
Views: 118030

Re: NSR: Corona Virus - You Can Start Panicking Now

You guys are so far down the political tribal rabbit hole that you can't even discuss something that could kill millions objectively. Who cares what the terminology is, what "your guy" thinks of the virus, or who is reporting what. The bottom line is this is a very contagious and very dead...
by specialp
Feb 28th, '20, 17:13
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: COVID-19
Replies: 358
Views: 24546

Re: COVID-19

I think it is pretty objective to say that Trump's strength is not the spoken word, and he is borderline incoherent. This is true regardless of your political persuasion.
by specialp
Feb 20th, '20, 10:26
Forum: Chatter
Topic: How Many People Die Skiing or Snowboarding At Ski Resorts?
Replies: 22
Views: 3825

Re: How Many People Die Skiing or Snowboarding At Ski Resort

Killington seems to be 1 or 2 a year on average. And as PinnacleJim said it is usually blue slope into the trees.
by specialp
Feb 7th, '20, 17:44
Forum: Chatter
Topic: best learn to ski/ride deal anywhere
Replies: 3
Views: 856

Re: best learn to ski/ride deal anywhere

Yes this is a great thing and good for Killington too. Because people tend to return to where they learned. I was sitting with Mike S in the gondola one time and told him what a great thing this is and they should expand it. We need to keep growing the sport because it isn't the most approachable or...
by specialp
Feb 7th, '20, 12:27
Forum: Chatter
Topic: Lift Discussion
Replies: 34
Views: 4886

Re: Lift Discussion

Usually at Killington there are ways to mitigate lifts being down for experienced people there. And in general I really don't wait in many lines. Even when it is as busy as it gets if you avoid Ramshead and K1 Gondola it isn't that bad. Superstar chair, Canyon and now even SPE is usually pretty acce...
by specialp
Jan 22nd, '20, 11:40
Forum: Chatter
Topic: Lift problems now a very regular fact of life at K and that
Replies: 29
Views: 2418

Re: Lift problems now a very regular fact of life at K and t

Skyeship is probably the most stop prone as the doors on the cabins no longer close properly all the time. These lifts can be made to run reliably despite their age. They aren't stopping due to catastrophic or long running failures for the most part, it is sensors tripping. They just have to focus m...