CuseTiger

Headed to Alaska in 2.5 weeks, will get a few early season days in there! Weather pattern looks to be shifting to PNW favor in the next week or two so fingers crossed for y'all

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Looking for a good mountain to try for my girlfriend and myself. I don’t mind a difficult-to-reach mountain; more interested in good snow chance/less crowd, which probably means hard to reach

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The snow pattern looks to be changing over the next week or two. When you say new years, do you mean right before or right after? 1/1 is on a Thursday this year so it's going to be crowded at most resorts that week. If you're going the week after, likely empty at most.

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Places that have caught my eye that I don’t know much about: Crested Butte, Big Sky, Whistler

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Whistler would be a good one. PNW looks to be getting hit with a lot of snow over next few weeks.

Schweitzer ID is a tough to get to mountain, but once you're there would be a good beginner mountain to learn on for the gf. Fun stuff for you to ski in the back. They have hotels and stuff at the mountain itself. I've also never found Schweitzer to be obnoxiously crowded whenever I've gone even on a Saturday/Sunday. Fly into spokane WA and drive two hours.

Other one I can think of immediately is Big Sky. Tons of ski in/ski out places and a huge mountain for both of you to explore. About an hr from Bozeman.

Maybe mammoth mountain in CA? It's a 5 hr drive from LA or 3 hours from Reno, but once you're there there's a ton of places to stay in town and take the gondola to the mountain. It's a huge mountain too so lots of terrain to explore. Plus lots of restaurants and bars.

Just my take :cheers:

As a kid growing up in the northeast, I surprisingly had not been to the WTC. So my dad took me and a sibling up to the top of the tower on a beautiful saturday. Can still remember my ears popping on the elevator. This was 2 weeks before 9/11

Only other thing I've got was two years ago I flew up to Alaska to go skiing Christmas week at Alyeska. I flew on Alaska airlines from Seattle up there on a 739 Max plane N704AL. I was sitting in a window seat behind the exit row by ~10 rows or so. This ended up being the plane that had the door/window blow out on the flight from Portland airport on January 5th last year due to damaged rivets. The plane already had indicated its first cabin depressurization 'Auto Fail' apparently by the time I had ridden on that plane.Thankfully no one died when that door blew out on the flight from Portland

Pribula is terrible

:lol: maybe I just needed to jynx him, nice two passes back to back

GT coach is dumb

GT TD but doesn't get the 2 pt conversion. BC 28 GT 26

I wouldn't even plan on 1215am honestly. The plane in Chicago is going to have to de-ice tonight, still snowing there. Add an hr to the estimated departure time from there.

1 hr 40 min flight in the air plus another hour for deicing and taxiing. So if it leaves the gate in 5 minutes, it could take off by say 930pm central. Probably going to land at 1215am, leave Atlanta around 115am would be my guess

How desperate are you to get to Ohio tonight? You could switch to fly to Cincinnati. Flight leaves in an hr

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Shutdown should end by tomorrow. Praying this fixes everything soon

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The last thing I read from the FAA said it will still take time to get everyone back to the control towers/work. So even if the govt isn't shutdown tomorrow, there will likely be lingering effects over the next few days/weeks. I hope the issues go away ASAP

Olympics in Milan in February?

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How’s Charlotte looking?

Originally rebooked Southwest to BNA but that flight got too delayed to make
Connection. Now thru Charlotte. Any issues you see?

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Charlotte had delays today, but didn't seem to be as bad as other airports. I would be worried though because charlotte flights touch nearly every other US airport especially the big ones like NYC, DC, Dallas, etc.So even if there's no delay at charlotte, your inbound flight could be stuck with one of those very delayed flights.

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Cuse, do the delays get worse as the day drags on?

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100%. I have a friend in town this weekend and his flight was tomorrow night to JFK at 6pm. I had him rebook to a 955am flight in hopes that even if he is delayed, he may still make it back tomorrow.

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I’ve got a flight from MLU-DFW-FSD coming up Thursday and just curious about the chance of delay both inbound to and outbound from DFW. Planned arrival for DFW is 7:02 and departure from DFW 10:14

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I just looked it's for the morning flights, correct? That's a long enough layover I'd be happy with that as long as the flight gets in to MLU the night before.