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[floridaskier]

NWS, on Oct 25 2004, 06:21 PM, said:

There is something new... Tyler, I didn't know you had a brother, I had the feeling you were an only child. :)  Is he into lifts as well?  Even though he is younger?
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I thought I mentioned him before, I guess not. Anyway, he's into the same sort of things I am. He doesn't use the computer or the Internet that much though, I don't think he'll join or anything. He likes to look at all the lifts and all that, and he pretends to know everything but doesn't reall. Which is fine, doesn't bother me. Pretty quiet. We get along ok mostly

[Bill]

altaskier, on Oct 25 2004, 05:54 PM, said:

New question:
If YOU won an airline ticket to any city in the world: where would you go (any why, if wish to elaborate)?
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I would fly to London Heathrow - Take the train and do a "Eurotrip". I would hit every major city and a lot of little cities. Maybe even find a wife and bring her home, or I would move to her home and stay in Europe.

- Bill

[pyrotechnik]

altaskier, on Oct 25 2004, 04:54 PM, said:

Okay, since everyone else is doing this, I might as well comply too..

Last Equipment? Volkl
Ski Company? Volkl
Skiing or Boarding? Skiing
How many Resorts? 30+
Favorite & Least Favorite? Big Mountain on a good day, Nakiska when its icy.
Skiing Idol? Steve Podborsky
Favorite Lift? Goat's Eye, Sunshine
Favorite Place Visited? New Zealand
Brand of Socks? As stated before: Black CCM sports socks
Ski Boots? Comfortable? Dachstein. Yes.
Profession: Editor, photographer and freelance writer for hire
Planes, trains, cars? Planes - Why? In one short day you can be almost anywhere in the world.
Who do you live with: Married with my wife of eight years.

New question:
If YOU won an airline ticket to any city in the world: where would you go (any why, if wish to elaborate)?
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italy. why? euh... I think im being called there, or drawn there, i dunno. eiffel 65 lives there


what is your favorite torture method?

This post has been edited by pyrotechnik: 25 October 2004 - 05:26 PM

[teachski]

Hey guys, where are your questions?????

To answer the last one posted, I own my own house (was my parents before they passed away) and I think, therefore I am single.

Next question? How old are you? (were you all born while I was in or after I graduated from High School - my 25th reunion is in 3 weeks- you do the math.)

[edmontonguy]

yep i'm only graduating this year at the ripe old age of 17

Where was the place you were born?

[pyrotechnik]

edmontonguy, on Oct 25 2004, 06:07 PM, said:

yep i'm only graduating this year at the ripe old age of 17

Where was the place you were born?
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san diego. and I ask my previous question: what is your favorite torture method?

[Bill]

pyrotechnik, on Oct 25 2004, 07:19 PM, said:

san diego. and I ask my previous question: what is your favorite torture method?
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I am 35 years old, 36 on friday. Born in Tacoma, WA so I have lived here all my life and since I am not really into torture (wow!) I dont really have favorite torture method, but my closest would be tickling.

Eiffel 65 -> Im so blue...

:)

- Bill

New Question? What are your life long goals/dreams (be realistic, ie college, etc)?

- Bill (Again)

[CAski]

Perhaps this is all slightly unrealistic.

College has never been a question for me. I have accepted for as long as I can remember that I will go to college (I am in the application process right now) and that I will graduate. Graduate school is not much of a question either. However, whether or not I will go for a Ph.D is completely up in the air.

From there I wish to become an entrepreneur. I have yet to narrow down a focus, but I would like whatever I do to have a noticably positive effect on the world. This would, naturally, have to involve something both big and revolutionary. A bit ambitious, yes. I figure, however, that I am up to the task. I will consider myself successful if I am making a decent living and providing a service that improves the world, no matter how little an improvement that is.

I know that I will never be happy unless I at least make an attempt, to the greatest extent of my effort, to set up a successful business.

Is this all fair to speculate? Perhaps not, considering that the vast majority of high school students expect to make over six figures a year. However, all this is of no importance as, rediculous as it sounds, I know I must try, and I know I must invest all my energy and resources into making a successful capital venture. I know I must try. That is not a question, even if success is.

Question: What was your day of skiing that was closest to perfection?

This post has been edited by CAski: 25 October 2004 - 10:43 PM

[liftmech]

the last few, in no particular order:
Age: 27 (28 on 29 December)
Born: Overlake Hospital, Bellvue, WA
Goal: I'm a day-to-day guy, although I guess my long term goal would be to convert as many people as I can to my way of thinking politically and socially
Torture: to remove someone (preferrably one with at least a six-figure income) from their comfortable life and have them see how the other half lives
Skiing perfection: I was probably 12 or 13, and it was spring break at Bachelor. I skiied the Cirque, especially the Pinnacles, until they were tracked out, then hiked the Cinder Cone several times. That being said, as long as I'm having a good time I consider the day a success.

New question: Is college wasted if you don't use your degree?
I sometimes wonder, but even while my diploma gathers dust I'm still glad I had the experience.

[pyrotechnik]

liftmech, on Oct 26 2004, 04:21 AM, said:

the last few, in no particular order:
Age: 27 (28 on 29 December)
Born: Overlake Hospital, Bellvue, WA
Goal: I'm a day-to-day guy, although I guess my long term goal would be to convert as many people as I can to my way of thinking politically and socially
Torture: to remove someone (preferrably one with at least a six-figure income) from their comfortable life and have them see how the other half lives
Skiing perfection: I was probably 12 or 13, and it was spring break at Bachelor. I skiied the Cirque, especially the Pinnacles, until they were tracked out, then hiked the Cinder Cone several times. That being said, as long as I'm having a good time I consider the day a success.

New question: Is college wasted if you don't use your degree?
I sometimes wonder, but even while my diploma gathers dust I'm still glad I had the experience.
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definitely

what is the brand of your cd player?

[Bill]

Wow, more questions to answer. :)

Perfection Skiing Day: Proabably back in 1984 on Spring Break @ Crystal, it was then my bones didn't creak and I could ski all day.

No, College is never wasted even if you don't use your degree. Look at me, I am a parts manager, thats as far from a Seismologist/Vulcanologist anyone can get. But perhaps someday I will work in my field of study.

CD Player? Home, its currently my XBOX and in my car its a CD/MP3/XM Pioneer.

New Question? What is a typical Day for you?

- Bill

[Bill]

My day is quite opposite from everyone else. I am a night person rather than a morning person. My day usually begins with me hitting the snooze at 7:00 am and then finally rolling out of bed at around 7:20 am. Get dressed and take my daily pills and on the road by 7:35 am. I arrive at work at 7:55 am for the 8-hour shift. Off at 5:00 pm I usually head home and change clothes for whatever I am doing in the evening. Usually its going out with friends or to a movie or the like. Get home around 10:00 pm, then I will get on the old computer and surf for an hour or two, which puts us at about 11:00 - Midnight. Then I take a shower, shave and all that stuff, get my stuff ready for the next morning and its off to bed between 1:00 and 1:30 am.

As for the oldest piece of ski equipment I own is my old set of Elan Rock Skis which were new in 1982, but still work great for those "less than perfect" conditions.

- Bill

[floridaskier]

I'm 14, 15 on Saturday, I was born here in West Palm, lived here all my life
Oldest ski equipment, poles from the 80s (lime green and pink accents on black shaft, they used to be my dad's)
Lifelong goal, go to college somewhere cold (or at least as far north as Tallahasee and FSU) and become something in the engineering/design field. I like to draw little stuff like on napkins or scratch paper at school
Torture method...good one, never thought about it. One thing thatreally pisses me off is when people poke you over and over again (something everyone used to do in 4th grade) and wont stop when you tell them to. So you could combine a bunch of people's torture methods and take someone with a 6-figure income, put him out on the street, play bad music, and poke him over and over with a stick
CD player, I have one of those portable ones for 20 bucks at the checkout ocunter at Publix, and then I have BA speakers on my computer that are pretty good, so I don't have a regular CD player I guess
Skiing perfection: Best day I've ever had was just last winter, around Jan 3, 2004 at PCMR in McConkey's bowl, early in the morning, 17 inches the night before and nobody had been out there yet. That whole Christmas season was great last year, new snow every day
Typical day: wake up around 6:30, eat breakfast, take a warm shower, head to school at 7:45, school starts at 8:15, ends at 3:15, go home, have a snack, do homework, if it's still light out go for a bike ride or something for some excercise, eat dinner, watch TV (usually baseball games in summer, or other stuff) and play around on the computer and AIM, go to sleep around 10 on school nights

[edmontonguy]

Resident of Edmonton AB and have lived here all my 17 years.
Oldest ski equipment is a pair of mid 80's Karhu Skis metalic silver
CD player = Samsung Yepp CD/MP3 player or My old boom box or one of two disk drives with Altec Lansing speakers + Sub or Creative Nomad Zen Xtra which i currently have over 2000 songs on.
Skiing perfection was in 2 feet of powder on the Knob at Marmot

[pyrotechnik]

next question?

[edmontonguy]

This is for all who live in nice warm places,
What was your first encounter with snow?

[floridaskier]

I first saw snow at a really young age, in New York visiting my grandparents when I was about 3. I don't remember much of it, but it was my first experience with cold weather and the first time I remember leaving home. My parents say that I walked over onto it and didn't see a tree root, and then i bent down to touch it and slipped and staryed crying because it was so cold. I don't remember that part

[liftmech]

CD player: we have an RCA boookshelf stereo with a 3-CD changer at home, but it only plays discs about half the time; I usually listen to music on my Pioneer Mofset 45x4 while driving.

Typical day: get up at 5 (ish), eat a bowl of cereal while writing to you all, pack my lunch while the car warms up, leave for work at about 6.15, get to work about 6.45, get a cup of coffee, plan the day, work the plan until about 4.30, get back to the shop between 4.30 and 5, drink beer some nights, go home, shower after becoming grimy all day, referee the shouting match between the twins (it's not as bad as it sounds). I am no longer allowed to read them to sleep as I have since they were born- they prefer mommy so I watch a little television before I go to bed around 9-9.30.

Highest elevation you've ever been to?
Summit of Mount Evans (south of Idaho Springs), 14,265'. Highest paved road in North America; I'm not quite in shape to climb a fourteener although I hope to next summer.