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.
All content for Mind the Track is the property of @Pow_Bot and @trail_whisperer and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
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.
First Snow, Fall Colors, Fire Lookouts and the Roadless Rule | E72
Mind the Track
1 hour 48 minutes 58 seconds
1 month ago
First Snow, Fall Colors, Fire Lookouts and the Roadless Rule | E72
After a mid-October Tahoe snowstorm, the boys catch up on life for the first time since August, recapping the incredible Fall season so far, rich with brilliant colors and hero dirt. Featuring an intro by the eponymous Snack Man, topics of banter include wing foiling, the earliest fall day PowBot ever skied pow in Tahoe, favorite snack they eat in the track, fire lookout tower trails, DOPE or DERPs including the new Class 3 mode on the Gen 4 Specialized Turbo Levo, front disc brake rotor covers, Palisades Tahoe releasing the ‘Black Pass’ and the concept of Finders Keepers. The boys shout out Truckee River Public Waters for defending the rights of wrongfully accused fishermen, Sydney Martinez and her awesome new book “Finding Nevada Wild”, all about the most misunderstood state in the American West, and Trail Whisperer references recent news about the U.S. Department of Agriculture rescinding the Roadless Rule, and his opinion on why it might not actually be a bad thing.
3:30 – What’s your favorite track snack?
6:55 – PowBot is a bona-fide wing foiling fool, 3-4 days a week for a month.
11:45 – One of the most beautiful Fall seasons ever in Tahoe. What makes a beautiful Fall?
17:00 – What’s the earliest date you’ve ever skied in Tahoe? October pow days.
23:20 – Trail Whisperer’s new story in Tahoe Quarterly about fire lookout towers and trails descending from them – “Points of High Interest”.
29:50 – Finding Nevada Wild by Sydney Martinez – 300 pages of amazing photography, storytelling and adventure information about Nevada.
34:20 – Core Lord Call-Ins – GORDO after hiking the PCT, Religious Exemptions and Big D is a big fan of Moab and disagrees with Trail Whisperer’s hate for Moab.
45:13 – DOPE OR DERP – Class 3 mode on the new Specialized Turbo Levo Gen 4.
50:05 – Carl H. thinks tailgate pads are DERP.
53:10 – Shout out to Truckee River Public Waters – two fishermen shot at by a landowner in Mogul.
56:40 – DOPE OR DERP – Front disc brake rotor cover for your mountain bike.
1:00:55 – DOPE OR DERP – Finders Keepers.
1:09:25 – DOPE OR DERP – Palisades Tahoe released the Black Pass – a $20,000 pass so you would be able to cut the lift line.
1:18:20 – A bit about the US Forest Service Roadless Rule being rescinded. Is the Roadless Rule good or bad?
1:36:00 – ON A MUSICAL NOTE – Stick Figure “Free Flow” album drops in mid-November. Dope Lemon – Angus Stone – indie rock, psychedelic rock. Steely Dead at CBC – Steely Dan/Grateful Dead mashup band.
1:42:30 – Uncle Coz interview at Gold Lake, Foiling and Florida Man for Tom, digging trail and making a trip to Ely, NV for Kurt.
1:45:55 – Downieville has shaped the evolution of the sport of mountain biking.
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.
