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@Thoric wrote:
That really is an excellent picture. Did you take that yourself? Or is that you on the sled and a mate took it?
I'm behind the lens... I don't get many pics of me riding. 
(I need to ride with more photogs)
Shot with my old Sony H2. Get right down on the ground and shoot wide. Should have bumped up the shutter speed a touch though.
Haven't figured out a good way to pack the Nikon on the sled yet. Still enough shock/vibration on the sled that I'd rather not put the camera there, and I don't have a lot of room in my pack.
Kind of a crappy weather system for the next few days; a little bit of snow fri/sat, then highs in the single-digits for the next few days. Might head a little further north to Steamboat Lake, ride out of there and into Wyoming, or might just hang out at the ears for a few days.
Black/red sled in the front (towards the camera) is me.
@Thoric wrote:
@crossrulz wrote:
@Thoric wrote:
As a Brit I've not been paying attention, but I assume the big P's solution to the fiscal cliff is a little, well, unsavoury?
Raise taxes on those making more than $400k and not make any spending cuts. I heard the deal will put us another hundreds of billions of dollars in debt in a single year (I don't remember the exact number, I heard it in a pass by conversation)
I'm not good with accounting, but the history of the US public debt (according to Wiki) shows an average increase of 1,000s of billions of dollars per year. To increase by just hundreds of billions this year is perhaps a sign of a reversing trend? Is this perhaps therefore a step in the right direction? I don't know, I'm just trying to make sense of the numbers - hundreds of billions of dollars is a LOT to imagine! I did once hear the analogy of a speeding freight - it takes time to slow to a stop before it can be reversed. Maybe the brakes are finally on?
Sadly, most of wikipedia is not a good place to get information. It had tended to be very one-sided when they talk about controversal issues. (search Climategate and try to find any information about the view of these people misleading the information) It's no different here. The view is onesided.
Take your article for example. They combined two years of republican control and 2 years of democrat control (only looking at president, congress was always democrat control) and that's the first location it looks horrible (almost 4 trillion dollars) when in actually, it was around 400b each year under Bush (even counting his spending binge the last year) and average of 1.4 trillion a year under O.
Scroll down on your page just a little and they give year by year numbers. Okay, but 1) They highlight whole fiscal years, not spending by president (important since the most of 2008 spending happened in the last 10 months, not the 2 months that were under Bush) 2) They convently left out 2010-2012. So, by looking at that data solely, the only source is onesided. You can't easily see that the deficiet exploded in 2009 (even 2009 isn't true).
Here's a better website for unbiased data on our spending. It uses CBO numbers directly and does not combine individual years. In fact, it thakes the whole and breaks it down into smaller items. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2012
I'll stick with the still shots and let the pros deal with video. 
Pick up my truck tomorrow morning, loading up and heading to Wolf Creek (south, near Buena Vista/Pagosa Springs area) for a few days. 
@SnowMule wrote:
Pick up my truck tomorrow morning, loading up and heading to Wolf Creek (south, near Buena Vista/Pagosa Springs area) for a few days.
I have never seen Pagosa and Buena Vista referred to as being in the same area...
I doubt that it has been cold enough this winter but I used to reach ridiculous speeds on a frozen Blue Mesa.
