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- Subject: Re: Transplanted from Colorado to Cleveland...
- Message-ID: <684@dwp.la.ca.us>
- From: carlson@dwp.la.ca.us (CarlsonPeters 7898)
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:50:14 GMT
- References: <679@dwp.la.ca.us> <13756@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <1e7nteINNnh9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1e7nteINNnh9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an660@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sandy Maurer) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, carlson@dwp.la.ca.us (Carlson Peters x7898) says:
- >
- >>In article <13756@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM writes:
- >>>...a few months ago, and now wondering what skiing sites
- >>>there are within, say, 3 or 4 hrs' drive from Cleveland?
- >>>Any recommendations?
- >>
- >>You poor, poor man.
- >Dont knock it if you havent tried it!
- >
- >At least we dont have the traffic gridlock, serious pollution
- >and water rationing that is found on the west coast.
- >And just think. I can afford a house with a few acres of land
- >and a nice car (or two). Not so if I lived out there.
- >
- >Sandy
-
- Very interesting. This is about the 4th "at least we don't have" type
- responses I've gotten from what was really a sympathetic post. The
- others sent very nasty email. One man from silly valley even compared
- LA to Sodom and Gomorahh (as if silicon valley isn't far behind!). My
- condolences were offered specifically because, skiingwise, going from
- Boulder to Cleaveland is depressing. No criticism of any other part
- of mid-western living was intended.
-
- I have tried it by the way, grew up in WI and learned to ski at Tyrol
- Basin (270 ft. vertical). I'll just say no to bitter cold and a
- complete lack of vertical and variety. Not to say that you can't
- learn to be a solid, proficient skier in the midwest. The blue ice
- tends to filter out the less determined. I was ready for my first
- trip out west to Jackson Hole. I was even suprised to find that I was
- a "good skiier" by western standards. All that struggling against the
- cold and ice really paid off.
-
- Yes, housing prices are sky high here. And traffic is a bitch if you
- insist on living in a nicey suburb 30+ miles away from work. I take
- the bus and get to work in 15 minutes. All the LA bashing is even
- more puzzling when you consider that so many cities try so hard to
- emulate it (one passenger auto commuting, freeway building, so called
- planned suburbs, 3rd rate mass transit and on and on).
-
- No, I don't like living in LA but hey, when I got out of school this
- was a job so I'm making the most of it. And speaking of making the
- most of it, I get in a lot of good local skiing here when Ma nature
- cooperates. Last year she did and we had snow base here as good or
- better than most of the west. And while the hoards were mindlessly
- driving to Big Bear or Mammoth or flying to SLC to SKI ALTA (tm), I was
- enjoying great powder days at the completely overlooked, no snowmaking,
- minimal groommed resorts stashed away in the San Gabriels.
-
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