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At >125 million passengers in / out / and through London per year, and considering that there likely isn't nearly the intra-country air travel there like there is in Canada / USA, that's a lot of people going somewhere else all the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic

Yeah, prolly a bad year for that.

Had they even shut down Wuhan in mid December, it would have only delayed the innevitable. The cat is out of the bag. (or at least out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology) It's not like it was a quick acting disease that took out a whole village deep in the Congo. .

I never heard aboot it until New Years. I remember passing out in a Col motel one night (actually two nights - tired, not other) and they were talking aboot that on the news. .

... and you honestly think that it is confined to the UK? Heathrow?

They doo that at Snow King Hill in Jackson Hole, Wyoming every year. Sounds like BC is dooing aboot the same thing as Colorado. The difference is that (as I read it) that in Col they were saying that 2 strangers could occupy opp ends of the same 6 seater, but if you were a unit, then you could pile on more. .

Most of the bigger hills have web cams - some of them live video, so you can see how the traffic is at the drop of a hat. I would think that Whistler would have one. https://www.onthesnow.com/colorado/monarch-mountain/webcams.html https://www.youtube.com/embed/DyvzXyJ_fVg .

I'm gad for y'all that the trails will still be open, not sure how that translates to traveling/motel-ing, but I'd be up for beg for forgiveness if it comes to it. But I don't git the ski hill thing? I know that the Colorado hills have it so that you change and warm in your vee-hickle, and I ass_u_me that means that bus loads are off limits... (?) But the cafeteria is open, but come in - git sumpin' to eat, take enough time in the facility to gobble it down, and then git out. No loitering. The thing is that skiers are not typically an old, unhealthy, overweight smoker, bunch. I've never frequented a ski hill, but by the looks of the motel near Wolf Creek Pass - there are a LOT of kids there! It's sad that Searchmont is not open. I would have thought that most of their clientele would be from The Soo, but I guess not. There are some big name ski hills 2 hours further south, so.... but I understand that Searchmont is a bigger hill, but... ??? But, in the wake of this mandate, it's for their benefit that they haven't been working the hill and then not be able to open. I am very sorry for the folks at Halfway, as I am sure that D isn't gunna see Jack Schidt fer traffic this year, and yet they are there to keep the trail open. They will lose their assets!

... after clicking on "Map Layers" that is.... Thanks. It still told me where to look - and that it WAS there, I just needed to find it.... OH FOR PETEY"S SAKES! Click on Legend and git this: So then find "Help" under the "Aboot" tab, and get this pop-up: Then open that to a whole new Bible of shtuff.... . I guess I'm not that interested.... I already have my Topo's... edit II: Now when I went back to it, the legend is "up" now. Go figger....

I couldn't find a legend for the map. Am eye blind?

That makes sense as it would be cheaper to haul up that as opposed to rail and THEN truck the rest of the way. [for the mine - not for the town only] But what doo you mean that the mine is closed already? Good grief - it just opened! Wiki doesn't seem to know anything aboot it closing. ???

Yeah, I've been there over the 1st/4th one year. I have never been so uncomfortably HOT in my life! I'm sure that it was a fluke, but if it git's hot and calm, all that muskeg turns to a humidity machine! And the "Friendly Flies" (real name - look'm up) will make you go berzerk! Couldn't agree more on the KFC either. We took the bus tour, which ended in the dump, and I wish that we had a camera at the ready, but I kid you not - this black bear come along and picked up an [presumably] empty bucket of KFC and plopped his assets right down in a Lazy Boy that was lookin' ratt at us in the bus (it was just me, the Mrs., and the driver). Mrs. Ox said that all he needed was a remote yet! Yes, we took the train. Prox 20 yrs ago. I really don't see the value in the winter road? Who pays for that? The train still runs, so - other than being able to git'cher pick-up down to pavement to go someplace (anyplace!) else for a bit, I jist don't see the concern aboot supplies and whatnot. The train is there 3 times a week eh?

It must have been '99 (?) when there just wasn't any snow at all, and then a big 3' dump the week of Christmas. The Lafarge lady from Searchmont said that it was hard to git in the Christmas spirit when there's no white, as they all but never are green that late in the year. But again - they got 3 or 3-1/2' in one dump - JIT for Christmas. And we was there to put tracks in it!

What are you dooing in Moosonee anyhow? Just topping up the gas tanks eh? I'm sure that you could git sumpthin' to eat as well, but - so you don't fetch a meal, no biggie. ??? You're staying at Tozers camp several klicks south of town anyhow.... (in the pic) Folks really git me - like the statement above aboot 15 people that you don't know. It's always the other guy that's the problem. Shirley it wouldn't anyone in YOUR group that could come down with sumpthin' next?

We learned many years ago to go when the core of the group wants to go, and not try to occomidate others. Just as you said - "those less dedicated"... There have been times when "this" weekend looked good for us, but someone else that wanted to go couldn't make that weekend werk asked if we could go the next weekend in stead? Then when "next" weekend comes, they end up bailing anyhow... and that weekend was not so good for us, but we made it werk... When possible - I like to schedule around the weather forecast these days. I've got my "-40*" T-shirt now. Dooing it again and again doesn't really change anything at this point, and my boy can't feel part of his chin from riding at -30*, so ...

By the looks of the approach and exit, I'd say that he does that QUITE regularly.

Just think if one day _ Thunder Bay might get on board, and folks in town might be tempted to buy snowmachines, and be able to ride from home, and then it would be feasible for D/A to connect all the way to Minnesnowta by an actual maintained trail. And just think if that actually happened by the time I'm too old to be bouncing around off trail! (should that day come) And then maybe trails could be maintained up and through the Kenora area.... Oh my ... Just pondering possibilities... .

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So - your '17 is NOT G4?

But it already IS a factor! We have a sled in the bush and can't git to it, and can't ride there this winter either! My old sledding chum hasn't ridden with me (or anyone much for that matter) since his kids were born, starting around 2008 I think. He was all geared up to head to Halfway this year! AND he wanted to head west with us too! So he called me up a month'r two ago and asked aboot deadline for git'n the nice price on OFSC permits? I told him that the bridge was closed to all Yanks - including Yoopers. (Munising) "Oh! I didn't know that." So then he backed out on heading west now too under the premise that he $pent all his $$$ on home improvements and more sleds so that everyone in the whole fam damly have their own sled now. And then my boy has now backed out on heading west now too - under the reason of time. He could git a day to head north, but he would need to take at least 3 days to head west, and his company made them take 2 weeks off earlier and use their vacation time for it, and he was NOT a happy camper. So now it's just me and my "headin' west" chum now, and he texted me the other day to tell me that we need to be back right soon after New Years as his wife is fetchin' a new knee soon after, so hard to say if he will be able to head back out by March or not? (prolly, but who knows if Biden will even allow us to by then?) So - that's my season ..... .

Boy - that was a lesson! I thought - Shirley that is further N than 49, but - nope, aboot dead smack on!

So you had a G4 freeze up on you?

A 2by worked fine on my chums Chevelle. Then you're always sliding off the bloody seat!

So - that takes "travel" (compression) out of one helix of the spring?

I'm guessing that the "club sled" is a wide track with a hitch?