 Poster: A snowHead
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Hearing that spring skiing hot spot Arapaho’s Badin in Colorado will open this weekend (May 30). That is encouraging
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Been open since Wednesday - shitshow of a lottery for the 600 daily places given approx 100k skiers and passholders in the Front Range and I70 corridor. Depressing ratehr than encouraging if you see it as a preceednt for how skiing will operate next winter.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Friend scored two of those 600 slots. Report was "fantastic spring skiing"!
Very uncrowded slopes. What's not to like?
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Friend scored two of those 600 slots. Report was "fantastic spring skiing"!
Very uncrowded slopes. What's not to like? |
Useless as a system for anyone who doesn't live in daily drive up distance of skiing. Many thousands disappointed vs the few lottery winners. Like I said depressing if its the future of resort skiing.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Many thousands disappointed vs the few lottery winners
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There's no getting around the requirement of social distancing!
The days of long lift queues, or worse pushing and shoving as typical in Europe, can not be allowed in the days of pandemic that infects any crowded space.
So for a change, instead of waiting for 30 minutes in the crowd for a few minutes of skiing, people were bluntly told not to go at all.
The silver lining is the uncrowded slope.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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The silver lining is the uncrowded slope. |
A payoff that is only achievable for the lucky local lottery winners = pretty soon a dead industry
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
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The silver lining is the uncrowded slope. |
A payoff that is only achievable for the lucky local lottery winners = pretty soon a dead industry |
There's no getting around social distancing.
Pick your poison, a dead industry or a lot of dead skiers?
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There's no getting around the requirement of social distancing!
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I suspect that next season will look a lot more like normal.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Aren't a few of the European resorts are open? How do they look? Anybody skiing?
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| abc wrote: |
The silver lining is the uncrowded slope. |
A payoff that is only achievable for the lucky local lottery winners = pretty soon a dead industry |
There's no getting around social distancing.
Pick your poison, a dead industry or a lot of dead skiers? |
How many people died from skiing in Italy? Hardly any I suspect.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Dave of the Marmottes, I don't think it's the future, just the present. I skied Timberline two days ago (see post "Skiing in the Pandemic"). Less fun but still fun enough, and we're all still in the early part of the curve figuring it out. Like everything else, this will moderate and we'll all have to, and will, adjust to the distancing stuff....and the fact that costs will go up and services will go down.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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A dead industry or a lot of dead skiers. May be a lot of resultant dead people, from skiers passing it along, but I doubt a lot of dead skiers as skier profile is usually younger and thinner to name just two massively reduced risk factors. However, when they pass it on to their parents, grandparents, elderly people with morbidities that is the danger.
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@countryman, um. Some of us skiers are grandparents.
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You know it makes sense.
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Many skiers are grandparents.
Many have morbidity to, albeit well controlled thanks to modern day medical intervention.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| However, when they pass it on to their parents, grandparents, elderly people with morbidities that is the danger. |
Apologies - but I'm struggling to understand your point. 
From Dictionary.com:-
Morbidity is a noun that’s defined as a “morbid state or quality.” Something morbid has an “unhealthy mental state or attitude” or is “unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme.”
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Poster: A snowHead
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Morbidities in this context means people with underlying chronic health conditions that make them likely to develop a severe form of the disease if infected. Given that younger people are less likely to develop serious disease and require ICU/die than those who are older and/or have co-morbidities (often both but not always), one of the main strategies in most countries' response has been to "shield" these people. Social distancing obviously reduces transmission, but even the most strict social distancing policies don't reduce transmission to zero, and so if you isolate the elderly/co-morbid from the rest of society as much as is practically possible, you at least provide them with a greater degree of protection. Obviously there are many other factors to consider, but that's the jist of his meaning.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thank you karansaraf.A much better explanation of the word than I could offer but I know what it means!!! Probably a word that has been hijacked by medical academics to mean something that has moved beyond the dictionary. What we used to call an underlying health condition and co-morbities are more than one underlying health condition.
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