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Glad I blew a grand on the Ikon pass this year. Conditions look like arse.

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It is early December.

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We plan to ski 4 or 5 days during our trip

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Window price at Vail is over $300, bring you wallet. They might cut you some slack for a multi day over a week or so, but do not expect much grace.

A little over a decade ago I worked at Coors in Golden. The head of brewing came in to speak to all of us and when asked about craft beer he said it was "a fad". Coors had just started AC Golden and Colorado Native; plus Blue Moon. I thought it was a myopic view of the beer landscape.

AC Golden is no more but led to Casey Brewing in Glenwood. Native is still around, I think. Blue Moon closed their tap room but is also still around.

Breweries here are closing weekly or being bought out and gutted (Great Divide, Upslope, Station 26, Funkwerks).

Coors was right, craft beer was/is a fad. Yeah sure, a few places will survive but most won't.

Beer is dead, long live beer.

Buddy was looking at the Xfire and the Deck Boss 800. The bbq store here said the deck boss will grill better than the xfire will smoke. My buddy got the deck boss. YMMV.

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100K Pay breakdown - Bi-weekly (every two weeks) ~$3,195 (based on 26 pay periods). This is after taxes, 401k, health insurance is taken out

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You are way overshooting the weekly take home pay. Knock $1000 a check off of that. A high deductible plan will run minimum $250 a check for a family then you need to fund the HSA account. Most companies match at least 4% 401k so pull that also. Are you not paying state income taxes either?

$100k salary is getting a family man a lot closer to $2200 per biweekly.

As a CU alumni(grad school) and I still live in Colorado this hire has panned out for the school. Ticket prices are way up and selling, merchandise sales through the roof, they get national attention and even an LSU message board has weekly threads about the Buffs.

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I’ll try this again. I don’t think I committed to the correct procedure last time.

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I did it 3 days a week and did 20 sets of 2-3 each day. I think it took 5-6 sessions until it was completely gone.

We did this a few years ago in the beginning of July. We drove from Denver and camped a lot.

We spent one night at Rainier then spent a few hours around Paradise. There was still several feet of snow so hikes were limited. Rainier is only as good as the weather there. If it’s clear it’s pretty awesome.
We drove from there to Olympic and camped near Rialto Beach. The walk along the beach to Hole in the Wall is a must at low tide. We went to Sol Duc Falls and Hoh Rainforest but skipped Hurricane Ridge as we live in Denver so we see mountains daily. We spent two nights in Olympic.
We took the ferry to Seattle and spent the 4th there.
We went to North Cascades the next day and spent the day in the park doing a couple short hikes.

You won’t be able to see and do it all at any of the parks but you’ll see and a a lot. You can use that to plan a longer trip if desired.

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I need help choosing a road bike

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This is one of the main reasons bike shops exist. Go to a few different shops and talk to them. Ride a few different brands. You can get a decent new road bike for $1200 or so. Winter is coming to half the US so most bikes are going on sale now also. The bike industry is in free fall, tons of good bikes to be had new for a good price. Most shops are still sitting on bikes that are 2-3 years old.

If you ride it enough to justify upgrading, then you will know what you are looking for on the next round.

The ships are already burned, this is what you are seeing. It’s burned down, the only question is why is the guy did the slow burn when it should have been burned down after Drew left allowed to lead this team forward.

Patriots week 6.

Saints will win 4-5 games this year, there are some bad teams out there. Bad rosters with bad coaches.

They will split with the Panthers.

Dolphins will be on an interim coach and 3rd string qb when they play.

They will get one or two more wins against the Jets, Bears, Giants, and Titans.

Top 5 pick most probably but not first.