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~ Monday, December 14 ~

Tandem Telemark skiing: ski ballet’s gay little brother.

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~ Friday, December 11 ~

Coffee consumption reduces risk of prostate cancer in men

This preliminary study out of Harvard Medical School completely validates my lifestyle.

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~ Thursday, October 22 ~

Mountains cause brain damage? (duh!)

Here’s a recent article in Outside documenting how rapid changes in altitude have been shown to cause brain damage in some otherwise healthy individuals who showed no signs of illness (e.g. AMS, HAPE, HACE) otherwise. The damage can occur even at moderate altitudes like 14,000-15,000 ft. Apparently amateurs don’t spend the time necessary to acclimatize on mountains like Rainier and just shoot up in two days, potentially leading to enlarged VR spaces (like in Alzheimer’s patients) or even partial frontal cortex atrophy (dead gray matter). Whoa.

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Skiing robot rips through gates. That’s the craziest f!@#$%ing thing i’ve ever seen. [Courtesy Lou Dawson’s Wildsnow.com]

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~ Wednesday, October 14 ~

Cody Townsend rips an unbelievable couloir in TGR’s Re:Session. I would kill to know where this is. It almost looks like the Wasatch, but can’t really tell.

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~ Friday, October 2 ~

The new Sweetgrass joint “Signatures” will be playing at Bent Gate on October 14. Looks like a heady, new-age, “feelings” kind of ski porn. I’m goin’.

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~ Tuesday, September 29 ~

You know things are bad in Iran when...

The Iranian Minister of Science has had a 2009 paper retracted from the journal Engineering with Computers because a significant portion of it was plagiarized from a South Korean paper published in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.

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~ Monday, September 28 ~

This [cellphone] picture gets me so amped. I was out for a ride on friday night when I came across this herd of elk right next to Hwy 40. It’s a little fuzzy, but the elk standing up is a 300 class 6x6, watching over his cows. Elk season is in two more weeks for me, and I think i should just stay in town!

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~ Wednesday, September 23 ~

I just returned from a week-long sampling trip up in Wyoming. Gillette is boring as hell, and once you’ve been to the best restaurant in town (twice- i recommend the ribeye) there isn’t much reason to stay. Except, that I had to. So I went out to rigs drilling new CBM wells to get coal samples as they drilled through the coal zones. This wasn’t so bad, but then i started filtering from existing wells. This takes all day, and is exceedingly boring. Unfortunately, you have no idea what you’ve got until you get the filter back to the lab, spend weeks working up the sample, then do the math. So it may be that all that time was wasted, or maybe it will be the work we need to finish this particular project and get it published. Here’s hoping!

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~ Sunday, September 13 ~

Trailer to the new Powderwhores production “Flakes” was released the other day. Just in time to get me so amped i can’t sit at the desk anymore.

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