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April Showers, May … Snowflakes

By: Kate Showalter | May 7th, 2010
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Hiking Baldy at Snowbird on May 1, 2010; Photo by Kris Saign

Assuming you’re in the northern hemisphere, you’re likely looking forward to summer’s arrival instead of backward to winter’s snowy days. Here in Utah, however, after a mediocre ski season, we still have snow on the brain. A 33-inch dump at Snowbird resort last weekend didn’t help any of us move on to our summer sport of choice.

As if we weren’t having enough trouble recovering from last weekend’s powder panic, while we sat at our desks yesterday and watched snowflakes fall outside our office windows, we stumbled onto Flaky Science. The Economist highlights the research of two scientists at the University of Utah who think they’ve determined what weather and temperature conditions make the best snow for skiing and riding. Read More …

Daylight Savings Procrastination

By: Justin Mool | March 15th, 2010
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Daylight Savings Time ProcrastinationMan … Daylight savings is rough. We love the extra hour of daylight at night, but you know as well as we do, that waking up in the morning sucks. It feels more like we lost three hours of sleep. So instead of struggling through emails and trying to put together some semblance of work, we sleuthed through a few posts on the Goat Blog and came across a couple gems of daylight savings time procrastination. Read More …

Brooklyn Boulders: A NYC Climbing Hub

By: Rocky Thompson | February 22nd, 2010
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A stream of skinny people toting messenger bags bang through a busy single door in a corner of Brooklyn near the Atlantic-Pacific transit hub. It’s tucked away in a neighborhood that has yet to feel the frontal assault of gentrification. Two blocks away rent prices triple, but on this side of the busy avenue, people still occasionally park on sidewalks and drink 40′s free of hassle from the police. Read More …