Yes. I'm afraid you're the oldest. But, posssibly the neatest? Times? You saw The Change. Things look better, starting up to thirty years earlier, than they do going forward. We'll maybe live to see a feeling of really mourning the old times.
Got that feeling last visit to LA.
And maybe not, I tell myself.
And people ask if things were really better, and I say, yes. And if we can define the ways, we understand why.
I remember the Helms Bakery Trucks of LA.
Holy crap, what a dream. What bliss.
(They came around in 50's panel trucks with warm donuts and bread, and slid out drawers of the stuff....)
We had a Milkman.
(Not a MilkPerson.)
(And you had to leave him a note if you wanted something, or to change anything, and it required parental planning and discussion and acceptance of responsibility, for one party to place the note in the top of the empty milk bottle in the box.)
(I can hear them.)
Ooooh.
Memory lane is sweet.
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On the skiing, you fanatic (I like that), the TV weather reports just give us a snow level; they don't say where. They usually mean the Cascade Range, which, you know, is very general. Mt Hood, if anyone were to ask them. (Been there?)
There is skiing at Mt Hood.
I bet you've been to MT Bachelor, near Bend.
Now which one gets the earliest snow?
That being a guess of, which way is the moisture pattern intersecting the coldest temps?
Well, Mt Hood Probably gets more early moisture, but Bach is higher and colder. So, damnit, it depends.
Yet - the ropes/lifts at Bach may open later.
We need websites for both/all, and I bet Oregon has em.
Hood is easy to air to via Portland;
Bachelor is a bitch. To access. Might as well drive. But Bach is probably GREAT, I mean NICE, at prem conditions. The views alone.
Hood always has snow. They could be skiing up there now. (I don't know.)
It's most likely a pure question of where ropes/lifts run this/any time of year, and Hood is probably the bet for that, but I don't know. If my machine hadn't crashed thru drive, I had the links.
I don't think they ski Rainier, but Rainier is one hell of a precip catcher. I forget. Do they ski that? Easier to get to than Bachelor.
Check the net. I bet Hood and Bachelor are both on here.
BTW, I do know about the rhododendron thickets on the coast. Amazing. The Coast of Oregon, is not the kind of place you want to be an explorer hacking your way thru. When the rhodies run out, they have other stuff. |
