Your car is your Baselodge

[Bill Miles]

To an engineer, If it ain't broken just means it doesn't have enough features yet.
We can always find ever more complicate ways to accomplish simple tasks.
We can also elect to accomplish simple tasks, simply.

In the aircraft world the saying was that it is time to make the engineers stop redesigning and fly the airplane.

 

[mdf]

A few years back we decided we'd try not to make "old people" noises when getting on and off the lift, putting boots on or taking them off, etc. This year that ship has sailed.

My son sometimes calls me out for OMG - old man grunts.

 

[mdf]

In the aircraft world the saying was that it is time to make the engineers stop redesigning and fly the airplane.

"Shoot the engineers and ship the product."

(As an engineer, I prefer this prescription be taken as a metaphor.)

 

[Tricia]

Now try it with a beer gut simulation pillow

@Andy Mink was commenting on how much easier it is to get boots on and off after losing a few

A few years back we decided we'd try not to make "old people" noises when getting on and off the lift, putting boots on or taking them off, etc. This year that ship has sailed.

Hey now. My only goal was to not make old peole noises getting on and off the lift. Your goals of also not making them seemed difficult. @Stephen's goals to not make them at all are unattainable.

 

[snwbrdr]

With one of these:

Untitled by thisistan, on Flickr

folding down the rear seat to sleep in a 17 deg sleeping bag with a fleece liner it was pretty hot in 20 degree weather, with the rear windows cracked open (within the vent visor)....could have been even warmer if I remembered my sleeping pad, but I'm also too tall for the cargo area.

changing into my base layer and bibs... it felt like I was in my backpacking tent, in terms of height inside.

My socially distanced lunch prep
Untitled by thisistan, on Flickr

 

[Errand Wolfe]

I've posted this several pages ago but i think it is worth repeating: If I didn't have a truck camper I would have one of those pop-up insulated ice fishing tents. Takes seconds to set up and you have and instant change room: really cold day, then add a portable Buddy propane heater

Yeah! I bought one a couple of weeks ago for those reasons. It's bulky but super easy to set up and take down. Haven't used it enough to give a review. I think it'll also be used for winter camping, camp kitchen, and maybe an other camping gear shed.

 

[nemesis256]

I've seen multiple people bring some type of foldable chair with them for putting their boots on. The type (formerly) used at big events, camping type chairs, even step stools.

 

[mister moose]

Ok people, I'm not excessively tall but I have 34-in. inseam (or is it 35) and can put my pants AND boots on in the car, in the driver's seat. I drive with my baselayer on, that's comfy! (Of course, maybe all that contortioning is why my knees suck so bad...)

Yeah, but what model car are we talking about? (Asking for a friend)

 

[Blue Streak]

When I take my boots off, it sounds like a sumo wrestling match, complete with grunting, swearing, and the occasional primal scream.

 

[Andy Mink]

I hate having to walk so far to the lift. With @Philpug and @Tricia at Mt. Rose.

 

[crgildart]

I hate having to walk so far to the lift. With @Pgilpug and @Tricia at Mt. Rose.
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Now if you rolled up at 10:45am and still got that spot..

 

[nhskier69]

Killington, a couple of weeks ago

 

[Andy Mink]

Now if you rolled up at 10:45am and still got that spot..

We got it after 9am. Lift spins at 8:30.

 

[David Chaus]

I hate having to walk so far to the lift. With @Pgilpug and @Tricia at Mt. Rose.
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That looks like the Slide Mt side? Are you noticing a difference between the two bases?

 

[Andy Mink]

That looks like the Slide Mt side? Are you noticing a difference between the two bases?

Yes this is the Slide side. Shorter lines today than main side. It's usually hit or miss as to whether Slide has lines or not. There is limited terrain still on Slide while Rose main is pretty much all open. Also, the weekday+Sunday passes are blacked out this week and next so lines overall weren't bad.

 

[DanoT]

I hate having to walk so far to the lift. With @Pgilpug and @Tricia at Mt. Rose.
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See that piece of fencing that the skis are resting on? Well we used to have something like that at SP and when my friend (honest, it wasn't me) would show up late, he would move the fence over to give himself room to "legally" park. The parking staff eventually caught on to his little trick and so then they would spray paint the snow/ground at the base of the fence so they would know if the fence had been moved. Notes left on the windshield warning about getting towed would follow.

 

[SBrown]

Yeah, but what model car are we talking about? (Asking for a friend)

So far, Audi Allroad and Toyota Land Cruiser. Audi is smallish but has lots of nice German legroom.

 

[Ogg]

See that piece of fencing that the skis are resting on? Well we used to have something like that at SP and when my friend (honest, it wasn't me) would show up late, he would move the fence over to give himself room to "legally" park. The parking staff eventually caught on to his little trick and so then they would spray paint the snow/ground at the base of the fence so they would know if the fence had been moved. Notes left on the windshield warning about getting towed would follow.

I was going to ask if they painted over the handicapped parking lines or put fake ones down previously and peeled them up when they got there.

 

[DanoT]

My friend has a Mercedes SLK and there is very little ability for seat adjustment. It's like the Germans have figured out the proper seating position and significant readjustment is not tolerated or permitted.

 

[raytseng]

My friend has a Mercedes SLK and there is very little ability for seat adjustment. It's like the Germans have figured out the proper seating position and significant readjustment is not tolerated or permitted.

lol, this is true. A lot of is for safety as the airbags and complementary safety systems in Germany can be designed to be very effective with much smaller system, less materials, less cost, and less ambiguity; IF and only if the operator reads the vehicle Operating Manual, follows the car operating procedures, and is in the designated pre-crash body position...which of course they do.