Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 3:17 PM -0700 1/27/09, Steve Barbour wrote:
>On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>> Hate to tell you this, but the only reason the name "Jackson Hole"
>>rings a bell with me and most other economists in the world is that
>>it is the site of the annual love-in of central bankers...
>
>
>they like to go to Jackson's Hole, the Tetons for a good reason,
>it's heaven on earth...Steve
>
>
I had some of the greatest days skiing there, ever. About 1968 3
friends and I arrived after a couple of weeks of storms causing the
gondola to be closed.
It's about 1200m vertical on the gondola, and one of the areas it
opens up is a scree slope about 5 to 8 hundred meters wide and 750m
vertical. Due to the storm no one had been able to ski it for a
number of weeks.
The day we came it was clear and calm, and I don't think I ever had
to cross anyone else's tracks. It took 7 minutes for the gondola to
go to the top, and I could ski the 1200m down in 7 minutes and be
ready for the same gondola.
With a minimal break for lunch (about 7 minutes to buy something) I
skied about 40,000m vertical that day, I think the most I've ever
done and almost all powder that flowed over my shoulders. Heaven on
earth indeed.
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