Tag Archives: skiing

-40 – Wildcat – 1971

March 5, 2023 – 1:01 pm
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COLD AS IT GETS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 31, 2019 – 2:02 am

Mount Washington is far from the tallest mountain on the face of the Earth, however in 1934 the summit observatory recorded the strongest wind on the planet at 231 mph or 372 km/hr. Winter temperatures on Agiocochook, or “Home of the Great Spirit” regularly dropped as low as -50F. Death from hypothermia can occur within […]

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Brrrr At The Observatory

January 4, 2015 – 12:13 pm

Only three fleeting flurries of snow have whitened the streets of Fort Greene since the beginning of this winter, but this morning the temperature hovered at water’s freezing point for water. I went to the local bagel shop for a coffee and listening to the ski reports from Hunter, Stratton, and Camelback. Conditions of the […]

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Supreme Snow Lord

December 15, 2013 – 10:30 pm

Last week North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un executed his uncle for treason. His crimes included not applauding his nephew with enthusiasm. Jang Song-Thaek was killed by a machine gun firing squad after the state media had declared that “despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal […]

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Hell Freezes Over

August 29, 2008 – 9:28 am

In 1974 my good friend Andy Kornfeld and I hitchhiked from LA to Boston. Getting rides was easy until we reached the black hole of Victorville. Scores of hippies lined the on-ramp. Some had been waiting a day. I suggested to Andy that we take a bus to Needles, a desert town to the east. […]

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