Welcoming in 2024 with a bang, as soon as the New Year hit, winter finally arrived in Lake Tahoe with multiple cold storms dropping a couple feet of blower pow. PowBot and Trail Whisperer go into Season 2 of Mind the Track talking on a variety of topics including riding the South Yuba River Trail, the history of Malakoff Diggins and what tree blazes are, skiing pow on Mount Shasta for New Years, attempting to Nordic ski at Mount Rose on Christmas, the importance of keeping all your printed maps, CDs and DVDs in an increasingly unstable digital world, the sketchy state of the snowpack in North America and Snoop Pow Dogg’s Snowsizzle My Dizzle Powderiffic Snow Report. Trail Whisperer goes off on two ASS (Angry Singlespeeder) rants about ebike haters and the looming chaos that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our lives, and he also shares an embarrassing and hilarious story of the time he pooped his pants while skiing at Heavenly. A question for listeners: what’s your preferred episode length – An hour or less or 90 minutes plus? Let us know!
3:00 – PowBot goes to Shasta for a mission. Trail Whisperer and Swan John go Nordic skiing on Old Mount Rose Highway.
6:00 – Super busy winter holiday in Lake Tahoe and Truckee. Gong show at Sugar Bowl and Palisades Tahoe.
11:15 – Riding the South Yuba River Trail, Missouri Bar and Malakoff Diggins.
13:30 – The history of Malakoff Diggins hydraulic mining and the Sawyer act, the first environmental legislation ever passed in America in 1884.
19:00 – Angry Singlespeeder Rant #1 – Snide remarks about ebikes on the South Yuba River Trail.
25:00 – Tree blazes and the history of trail blazing and trail markings.
28:00 – John and Jim Morrison’s slide show presentation at Alpenglow Winter Series.
31:30 – Snoop Pow Dogg Mind Z Track Snowsizzle My Dizzle Powderiffic Snow Report
33:30 – The difficulty in forecasting the weather during an El Nino season and massive coastal surf in California.
39:00 – Old James Niehues ski resort maps and the importance of a physical product, not a digital product. Keeping your CDs, DVDs and hand drawn maps when technology melts down.
44:00 – Angry Singlespeeder Rant #2 – Technology has dominated and taken over our lives and the scary proliferation of AI and ChatGPT.
57:00 – PowBot’s Mount Shasta backcountry skiing mission recap.
1:05:00 – Does PowBot wear a butt pad at the ski resort?
1:07:00 – Have you ever peed or crapped your pants while skiing?
1:16:30 – The sketchy state of the snowpack in North America in early 2024.
1:21:00 – Brett “Kowboy” Kobernick – giving his opinion of how dangerous the snowpack is.
1:25:00 – Let us know how long of an episode you like. 60 minutes or less or 1.5 hours?
1:26:00 – Listener shout outs - Katie Pesce.