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Picto Diary - 28 to 31 March 2024 - Koessler Family Off to India

Above: Siempre. Draper, UT. 28 March 2024.

At dusk, image looks WSW over the Salt Lake Valley and beyond to the Oquirrh mountain range.

Above: Siempre, Canyons School District annual fund raiser. Draper Utah, 28 March 2024

Image: The Monk, Jr. and Oscar. Oscar is halfway through training to become a diesel mechanic, after which he will fall into the category of "guys who know how to do stuff..." or, men we turn to when the mud hits the fan.

Above: LSDM Friday Colloquium - 29 March 2024 - Wasatch Bagel, Park City, UT.

Topics du jour:
Welcome Tom Cooke, candidate for Summit County Council. Tom is on board of Bicycle Collective. Bicycle Collective

Roger's (Latham and Watkins) KPCW Saturday AM show agenda: Woodward, Wasatch Rescue, Utah College Journalism Cooperative
Summit County property tax alleged inequities. Free Style (Bob Theobald) on soapbox.
Oly ski events not going to be in Park City?
Alex Butwinski: Current city council is doing a pretty good job. Making more progress than we did in my day.
Psilocybin says watch this on Netflix: 3 Body Problem (TV series) - Wikipedia

Peter W. says read this: The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma: Suleyman, Mustafa, Bhaskar, Michael: 9780593593950: Amazon.com: Books

Above: Dennis Villeneuve. Wasatch Bagel. Park City Utah. 29 March 2024.

Successful Park City businessman. Fourteen employees. Gardening, hanging holiday lights, plowing.

Above: Deer Valley, UT.
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Hanging it up... at least at Deer Valley for this ski season. There is a remote possibility that I get another 2023/24 season ski day before all the resorts are shut for the season. However, a trip to India accompanying the Koessler family precludes me skiing at Deer Valley before 10 April 2024 closing date. I've been on 565 lift rides year to date which, when each ride is multiplied by 1000 (vertical feet) means that I have skied 565K vertical feet this year. I guarantee that my rudimentary vertical feet calculation methodology will get me within the margin of error for total vertical feet! My highest vertical feet ski production was circa 2009 when I skied 142 days and 2.6 million vertical feet. That year I skied every marked run and all of the lift lines at Park City Mountain Resort at least once. For the years from 2005 thru 2022 I skied over 1 million vertical feet each year. I'm slowing down, but not giving up!

Above: 777 and Koessler. Salt Lake City International Airport. 29 March 2024.

Chance meeting due to flying the same flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam.

Above: Iron Canyon, Park City, UT. 30 March 2024.

When its Springtime in the Rockies.

Above: Roy and Portland. Imperial Hotel, New Delhi, India. 31 March 2024.

Image by Koessler.