skiing

Which is great, because it'll let me go skiing more.

In 2000, if you were wearing a helmet skiing, you were crazy. Now, you're crazy not to.

Who do VCs spend their skiing trips with: ramen-fed, sleep-deprived startup founders, or other VCs? Of course, they hang out with each other.

The best trick I learned while skiing is to do large arm circles when your fingers start getting cold. This forces blood back to your fingertips and instantly warms them back up.

He answered that he wanted someone to pay for his move to Seattle where he could go skiing. People can be astonishingly dumb sometimes.

My big activities for the past decade have been climbing, skiing and raising my kids. Some of my friends kept working and now have vineyards and foundations.

If you knew it was a broken part ahead of time, you might have simply sent it in for repairs and gone skiing instead. But if you decided "hey I'm going to do X this weekend", it's quite easy to lose time trying to do so.

Granted there are upsides like the mountain sides for camping and skiing. Also Harmon's is an extremely nice grocery store.

I do find it odd that people naturally "get" this for things like driving a car, hang-gliding, back-country skiing, skateboarding, parkour... .

When I'm out skiing, I see half the teenagers with GoPro's mounted on their helmets, their ski poles, chest harnesses etc video taping each other hitting jumps to put it up on youtube. When I'm at a car race, half the guys have GoPro's mounted on their rollcage.

They are deliberately skiing away from it at a high rate of speed. What they will find at the bottom of the slope is an interesting question, but simply pointing out that their strategy is bad for mountain climbing is neither here nor there.

It is geographically diverse we enjoy great sunshine and great skiing in relatively close proximity. The people are culturally pleasant, love life, and you can strike up conversation with gentle strangers.

Then the insurance company can grep the records for mentions of smoking, drinking, drug use or injuries related to dangerous activities like riding horses, motor racing or skiing. Now that the insurance companies can identify patients in these risk groups, they can proceed to doubling the insurance fees of these people.

Nice, hospitable, open people, good standard of living, great skiing. And a despotic government with no interest in war, just the subjugation of their own - and they'd still be a democratic secular republic if it weren't for the CIA orchestrated coup in '53 that resulted in the 79 coup, overthrowing the shah puppet govt.