Trip Report: Carl's Cabin and New York Mountain Backcountry

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UPDATE: If you're looking for more current trip reports, current avi conditions, other backcountry ski areas, or backcountry ski weather, please check out my new website (which is under construction) at www.PowProject.com [caption id="attachment_619" align="alignright" width="300" caption="At the Trailhead. Photo Credit Lora Homeyer"][/caption] This past weekend I did my first ever 10th mtn hut trip.  It was totally dope. We...Read More

Ski Tip: Cheap Ski Gloves

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Ski gear can be expensive, so when my old ski gloves starting falling apart at the seams this cheap-skate was gritting his teath thinking about buying a new pair.  I asked a couple of my friends from ski bums to ski patrols and got a pretty unified response: Get a pair of Kincos. So I did, and after posting about...Read More

Tool of the Week: Zenni Optical

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Over the holidays I've been getting lots of complements on my new glasses.  I decided to try out some thicker, bolder frames and got a pretty good response to them!  For those of you that wear glasses, you know how expensive glasses can be.  So trying a new style used to be a risky investment... until I started buying my...Read More

Tool of the Week: Google Sketchup

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Google Sketchup is a Free, easy to use, and intuitive 3D modeling tool. [caption id="attachment_599" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Here are some drawings for a bed i designed, but never built, because i realized my room was too small"][/caption] Because it is free, I've found Google Sketchup to be a great tool to use in the classroom when teaching my high-school classes...Read More

Tool of the Week: Pintrest

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I love sharing articles and things I find interesting around the internet.  Recently my friend Nicole told me about a website I had never heard of before called Pinterest.   Pinterest makes sharing stuff you find on the web really easy, and your past shares are shown in a very aesthetically pleasing gallery.  You can choose to send your pins to facebook...Read More

Tool of the Week: Evernote

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Evernote is a free app for windows, pc, and smartphones, and is a great way to remember stuff. [caption id="attachment_584" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Evernote Screenshot"][/caption] For research: I love being able to quickly snap screen shots of plots and clip them to Evernote, with a description of what's going on and what i'm working on daily. I can easily e-mail a...Read More

Tool of the Week: Using Google Forms for Research

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I love google docs, it's an awesome way to collaborate on word processing files and spreadsheets, and have them available from anywhere.  I have a few google spreadsheets I use daily in the lab with calibration curves and other important info, but I wanted to talk about a less obvious google doc that i find invaluable: Google Forms.  You may have already heard...Read More