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Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · Dec 6

Pro-Democracy.

~89M people did not vote! More than voted for any candidate!

Majority of trump voters are good people that are "information unwell". They fell into a RW disinformation trap that is nearly impossible to escape. Listen to what they say, they each repeat the same lies, mass hypnosis!

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Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 13h

Well, ChatGPT writes that you are correct: The Appalachians are still considered mountains because elevation alone doesn’t define a mountain—geological origin, structure, and formation history do. Despite their modest height today, they were once among the tallest ranges on Earth.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

Says the non-skier

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

I appreciate your concern.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

Too many cooks? Ok, I agree, more cooks the better.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

Nothing east of Colorado I the USA is a mountain. Outside of the USA, él Chorro, Sierra Nevada , Pyrenees, alps are some examples of mountains.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

Utilizing the idiom is beyond me. Mostly because I don’t understand what you mean using the word.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

Which skis precisely? 100% you’d be on different skis with a sheet of ice day in vt than a heli pow pow day in bc.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

I imagine that you are correct. Except that skis tuned for east coast need to be tune for ice. To be sure, sometimes that’s needed for west coast, too.

Nevertheless. There’s no possibility of being “over one’s skis” except in rare circumstances.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

Pretty sure that I would never put my cat in a bag.

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Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

my dear new internet friend, is the only time in my life and my 1000s of hours of skiing that I’ve experienced what it’s like to be “out over one’s skis”.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

I was at Alpental on a Tuesday down front side after taking chair 2 to the top. Having a great time down a steep slope with a little un-chewed fresh snow. Suddenly, dropped 10-12ft and hit a l cat track. I hit it so hard I bounced up and did a forward somersault over my skis. So that,

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

Because skiing at Crystal and Alpental throws almost everything at you that you could ever face in a managed area.

So, in the 1000s of hours and dozens of resorts and back country inc some heli time I’ve skied, I’ve never been in a situation I’d describe as “over my skis” except for once:

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

But even then, that’s not where I discovered true skiing. And when I discovered true skiing , I didn’t know it at the time. Because years later, after I had skied Utah, California, Japan and my current home, Washington, I re-discovered Tahoe skiing and was like, meh, this isn’t so difficult.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

I had the white privilege of getting a student loan that enabled me to go to college at Ohio State. Whilst there, I had the wherewithal to visit my grandparents on my dad’s side who lived in Ogden Utah. That’s where I discovered what a mountain actually is. Alta, Snowbird, Brighton and a few others

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

as a middle schooler and thought the bus was driving us to the mountains when reality was we were going to a river valley, the Cuyahoga River Valley, to be precise. The same river that caught fire downstream, north, in Cleveland.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 16h

I had no idea a simple pet peeve comment would generate such controversy, but here we are. I grew up, much like you, in a working class family where my dad decided that Cleveland Ohio was a great place to raise a family. A few years later, a local river was on fire, literally. I joined “ski” club

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 17h

I imagine the scale and terrain is different. BTW, there’s more than bc, alps and pyrenees come to mind as low hanging fruit.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 17h

Please tell me, what does “in over your skis” mean?

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 19h

I would cry and not be tempted to beat a dead (nor alive) horse.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 19h

I haven’t seen one and pretty sure vt and nh, as nice as they must be, don’t compare to, say, Whistler.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 19h

Why, never seen a horse push a cart before?

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t know what blueskyism is, sorry.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 19h

Pretty easy to imagine the pain, tho.

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 19h

What on earth makes you think I’m addressing you?

Rollamichael @rollamichael.bsky.social · 22h

I understand the expression just fine but it’s often used by East Coast pundits who I doubt have spent any significant time skiing a real mountain.