Clear and Still | E57

Recapping a polarizing winter that has been “clear and still” – either literally clear with no snow and still with no wind, or snow clear up to your ass and still snowing, the boys catch up on a number of topics including PowBot’s surf trip to Costa Rica, Trail Whisperer’s Death Valley four wheeling adventure and helicopter skiing, the sketchy last month of avalanches and the lack of stoke for resort skiing. The boys DERP local ski resorts for their season pass money grab of selling next years pass in March, they also DERP @palisadestahoe for leaning on local law enforcement to bust ski pass poachers. The ASS rants about social media and the unnecessary steepness of West Shore skin tracks and ponder why skins haven’t improved that much in the last 10 years. The boys also play some 888 COR LORD call-ins from listeners.

2:00 – Recording from the Tahoe City Transit Center in PowBot’s new van.

4:20 – Recapping a banger couple of days skiing the West Shore of Lake Tahoe.

10:20 – PowBot witnesses public hate for the Tesla Cybertruck.

14:20 – Trail Whisperer takes the Land Cruiser four wheeling in Death Valley then goes to Tonopah to stay at the Mizpah Hotel.

21:20 – Trail Whisperer goes helicopter skiing.

25:40 – Skiing in the Toiyabe.

26:25 – PowBot goes surfing in Costa Rica

34:55 – The boys have been down on the ski resort experience this year, too busy everywhere.

39:20 – DOPE OR DERP – Do you buy next year’s ski pass now in March?

46:00 – ASS rant about the state of social media and podcasting.

55:40 – Tom has an encounter on his flight home from Costa Rica related to the podcast.

58:45 – ASS rant about the unnecessary steepness of West Shore skin tracks.

1:01:40 – Why have skins not improved that much in the last decade?

1:05:20 – DOPE OR DERP – Alterra and Vail leaning on local law enforcement to prosecute ski pass poachers.

1:13:05 – ebiker gets stranded for 30 hours in rural Texas after her ebike battery died and PowBot’s story of his ebike dying in Downieville.

1:16:00 – Listeners call into the 888 COR LORD hotline, talking about attainable, approachable backyard adventures.

1:23:55 – Shout out to Alenka Vrecek – new article in Adventure Sports Journal about her Tahoe to Baja ride.

1:25:10 – Trail Whisperer restores a vintage road bike and takes it for a ride.

1:33:34 – The recent rash of avalanche incidents and fatalities since early February.