Felonies, Fake News and the Return of JaPowBot | E31

After a three week adventure overseas, JaPowBot makes his return from Japan just as winter turns back on in Lake Tahoe. The boys discuss Tom’s trip as well as a potpourri of shenanigans that happened in Tahoe while he was gone, including shootings at Palisades Tahoe and Homewood, grant theft and assault at Boreal and a woman getting stranded overnight in the Heavenly gondola. Trail Whisperer rants about UnofficialNetworks and their false AI generated news headlines, PowBot calls out Palisades Tahoe for complaining about work on their blog, presidential candidates make campaign promises for the votes of Tahoe core lords, Snoop Pow Dogg gives his Snowsizzle My Dizzle Powderiffic Snow Report and Arapahoe Basin loses its identity and goes corporate after being bought out by Alterra/IKON Pass.  

1:45 – POWBOT Returns from Japan with the Hakuba Hack.

4:30 – Winter finally shows up in Tahoe.

6:45 – Riding Sonora Pass and Leavitt Lake in the Bridgeport Winter Recreation Area with Nick Bliss. @bridgeportavalanchecenter

9:20 – Backcountry skiing in Japan – filling out forms to get permits for the Japanese Alps.

11:45 – Shout Outs to listeners, Incline Spirits and Cigars, Bestfit Boots and Start Haus Truckee, Josh at Boot Solutions in Hakuba.

25:45 – Eating weird Asian foods.

29:00 – While Tom was gone….presidential campaigning in Reno/Tahoe region. Thanks Chad Peters - @takeoffyourpnts on Insta.

32:30 – Woman gets stranded overnight on Heavenly gondola, shooting at Squaw Village, shooting near Homewood at a restaurant, grand theft and assault at Boreal.

35:30 – Kurt’s ASS Rant for the Week – UnofficialNetworks using AI to write news headlines.

38:45 – Palisades Tahoe Blog and the complaining they love to do about their jobs.

40:20 – The Headwall chairlift debacle – Scott Gaffney writes an Ode to Headwall poem.

44:30 – Arapahoe Basin in Colorado gets purchased by Alterra/Ikon Pass.

51:30 – Snoop Pow Dogg’s Snowsizzle My Dizzle Powderiific Snow Report

54:00 – We are definitely in an El Nino winter – no snow in the Pacific NW and Montana

56:00 – Gettin’ older and feelin’ older. Coping with injury and getting older. Do more cross training. Throttle back. Stretch more.

1:02:15 – Recap of PowBot’s trip to Hakuba, Japan. Happo-One.

1:14:00 – Trail Whisperer and Swan John’s upcoming road trip to Idaho and Wyoming.

1:20:30 – Sharing information about avalanches and Avalanche Canada’s new avalanche reporting system built by the government for the public to use and share.