Halfway through November and there’s no sign of Old Man Winter in Lake Tahoe. As the boys await a proper early season dump to whiten the mountains, they catch up on life and a bunch of listener feedback. Topics of discussion include what activities do you do in the transition between fall riding and winter skiing, what is the single best sport in the Tahoe region, helicopter skiing in the Sweetwater range, Jim Morrison’s historic first ski descent on the north face of Mount Everest, listener feedback on rescinding the Roadless Rule, are blue square flow trails DOPE or DERP and has Red Bull Rampage gone too far? In classic old man Statler and Waldorf fashion, PowBot rants about text laid over Instagram Reels and Trail Whisperer rants about a rope swinger getting arrested in order to get more Instagram followers and sell a bunch of t-shirts.
3:30 – Slurp Man and Snack Man not so popular
4:40 – Pow Bot talks about ASMR – Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
5:50 – The etymology of fingernails on a chalkboard
7:00 – The dangers of using a claw hammer
9:30 – Getting out of shape, fitness and getting older. It’s harder to off-the-couch adventures.
11:00 – Recap on Fred Stamm’s Giro di StaMMina mountain bike adventure near Quincy
13:40 – The weird transitional time between Fall and Winter. What activities do you do?
19:00 – The Slugfest mountain bike ride in Reno
21:45 – Shout out to Truckee Dirt Union – benefactor of the Alpenglow Speaker Series on 12/5
23:25 – NEWS THAT MATTERS – Jim Morrison the first to ski the North Face of Mount Everest
30:00 – Sweetwater Heli launches as the only helicopter skiing business in California
33:00 – Four wolves in Sierra Valley euthanized by CDFW after killing 75+ cattle
37:00 – Hiker dies falling off a cliff on Mount Whitney in icy conditions
38:55 – LISTENER FEEDBACK – Rachael from Australia
40:50 – Kurt G asks – what is the single best sport in the Lake Tahoe basin?
44:30 – DOPE OR DERP – Landon – Riding blue square flow trails?
49:40 – POWBOT RANT – Text laid over in the video of an Instagram Reel.
54:00 – PJ wants some discussion around Red Bull Rampage. Has it gone too far?
1:07:00 – Follow up to the Lake Tahoe rope swingers – rope swinger got arrested
1:12:50 – Rescinding of the Roadless Rule update
1:20:40 – Early season snow chasing. Shasta or the central Sierra might be in.
1:23:00 – Low confidence in long range weather forecasting – shout out to Michael Snyder – California Weather Watch.
1:27:10 – Trail Whisperer is going on his first BC hut trip to Ice Creek Lodge.
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Halfway through November and there’s no sign of Old Man Winter in Lake Tahoe. As the boys await a proper early season dump to whiten the mountains, they catch up on life and a bunch of listener feedback. Topics of discussion include what activities do you do in the transition between fall riding and winter skiing, what is the single best sport in the Tahoe region, helicopter skiing in the Sweetwater range, Jim Morrison’s historic first ski descent on the north face of Mount Everest, listener feedback on rescinding the Roadless Rule, are blue square flow trails DOPE or DERP and has Red Bull Rampage gone too far? In classic old man Statler and Waldorf fashion, PowBot rants about text laid over Instagram Reels and Trail Whisperer rants about a rope swinger getting arrested in order to get more Instagram followers and sell a bunch of t-shirts.
3:30 – Slurp Man and Snack Man not so popular
4:40 – Pow Bot talks about ASMR – Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
5:50 – The etymology of fingernails on a chalkboard
7:00 – The dangers of using a claw hammer
9:30 – Getting out of shape, fitness and getting older. It’s harder to off-the-couch adventures.
11:00 – Recap on Fred Stamm’s Giro di StaMMina mountain bike adventure near Quincy
13:40 – The weird transitional time between Fall and Winter. What activities do you do?
19:00 – The Slugfest mountain bike ride in Reno
21:45 – Shout out to Truckee Dirt Union – benefactor of the Alpenglow Speaker Series on 12/5
23:25 – NEWS THAT MATTERS – Jim Morrison the first to ski the North Face of Mount Everest
30:00 – Sweetwater Heli launches as the only helicopter skiing business in California
33:00 – Four wolves in Sierra Valley euthanized by CDFW after killing 75+ cattle
37:00 – Hiker dies falling off a cliff on Mount Whitney in icy conditions
38:55 – LISTENER FEEDBACK – Rachael from Australia
40:50 – Kurt G asks – what is the single best sport in the Lake Tahoe basin?
44:30 – DOPE OR DERP – Landon – Riding blue square flow trails?
49:40 – POWBOT RANT – Text laid over in the video of an Instagram Reel.
54:00 – PJ wants some discussion around Red Bull Rampage. Has it gone too far?
1:07:00 – Follow up to the Lake Tahoe rope swingers – rope swinger got arrested
1:12:50 – Rescinding of the Roadless Rule update
1:20:40 – Early season snow chasing. Shasta or the central Sierra might be in.
1:23:00 – Low confidence in long range weather forecasting – shout out to Michael Snyder – California Weather Watch.
1:27:10 – Trail Whisperer is going on his first BC hut trip to Ice Creek Lodge.
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.
Mind the Track
Halfway through November and there’s no sign of Old Man Winter in Lake Tahoe. As the boys await a proper early season dump to whiten the mountains, they catch up on life and a bunch of listener feedback. Topics of discussion include what activities do you do in the transition between fall riding and winter skiing, what is the single best sport in the Tahoe region, helicopter skiing in the Sweetwater range, Jim Morrison’s historic first ski descent on the north face of Mount Everest, listener feedback on rescinding the Roadless Rule, are blue square flow trails DOPE or DERP and has Red Bull Rampage gone too far? In classic old man Statler and Waldorf fashion, PowBot rants about text laid over Instagram Reels and Trail Whisperer rants about a rope swinger getting arrested in order to get more Instagram followers and sell a bunch of t-shirts.
3:30 – Slurp Man and Snack Man not so popular
4:40 – Pow Bot talks about ASMR – Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
5:50 – The etymology of fingernails on a chalkboard
7:00 – The dangers of using a claw hammer
9:30 – Getting out of shape, fitness and getting older. It’s harder to off-the-couch adventures.
11:00 – Recap on Fred Stamm’s Giro di StaMMina mountain bike adventure near Quincy
13:40 – The weird transitional time between Fall and Winter. What activities do you do?
19:00 – The Slugfest mountain bike ride in Reno
21:45 – Shout out to Truckee Dirt Union – benefactor of the Alpenglow Speaker Series on 12/5
23:25 – NEWS THAT MATTERS – Jim Morrison the first to ski the North Face of Mount Everest
30:00 – Sweetwater Heli launches as the only helicopter skiing business in California
33:00 – Four wolves in Sierra Valley euthanized by CDFW after killing 75+ cattle
37:00 – Hiker dies falling off a cliff on Mount Whitney in icy conditions
38:55 – LISTENER FEEDBACK – Rachael from Australia
40:50 – Kurt G asks – what is the single best sport in the Lake Tahoe basin?
44:30 – DOPE OR DERP – Landon – Riding blue square flow trails?
49:40 – POWBOT RANT – Text laid over in the video of an Instagram Reel.
54:00 – PJ wants some discussion around Red Bull Rampage. Has it gone too far?
1:07:00 – Follow up to the Lake Tahoe rope swingers – rope swinger got arrested
1:12:50 – Rescinding of the Roadless Rule update
1:20:40 – Early season snow chasing. Shasta or the central Sierra might be in.
1:23:00 – Low confidence in long range weather forecasting – shout out to Michael Snyder – California Weather Watch.
1:27:10 – Trail Whisperer is going on his first BC hut trip to Ice Creek Lodge.
