They definitely landed on a flat surface. It’s right at the bottom of the hill between two lifts. No one should take a sled into a super half pipe - these two trespassed and did it at night.

I used to spend all winter snowboarding when I was a teenager and I took a break for a few years while I was in the Navy because I wasn't stationed within 1000 miles of snow. I gave it a shot the winter after I left active duty and didn't even spend a whole day on the mountain. My skills had degraded to the point where I wasn't comfortable anymore. Shortly thereafter, I met a woman who had been a high level skier when she was a teenager and was expecting to go to the Olympics before she got in a serious accident that damaged the nerves in her neck. She had full function of her extremities, but she said she couldn't feel very much below her neck and a lot of what she did feel was that painful stinging you get when your leg falls asleep or something. Her story made me give up winter sports for good. She was one of the best and she had a life changing injury; what the hell am I doing up there? I haven't been in the slopes in almost 20 years now, and I can literally see the resort I used to go to most often from my bedroom window.

A tubing hill and half pipe have very different forms and function despite how similar they might look.

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It's not, that's why it works. The lift to access federal public land is what you are paying for. It's just like going on a hike in a national forest.

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if there was any truth to this, Earth would have been vaporized into stardust filling the emptiness between two very distant galaxies, 1 million times over from planetary exterminating sized asteroids by now.

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That is not true. They can, and do, restrict access. It is completely up to the lease holder whether or not they allow uphill access. And that's USFS land. Some areas allow it, some do not. And typically those that do have some restrictions. For very good reasons too. They do not want anyone climbing up at night while they are trying to groom the slopes, for example.

I'm not here to argue with the pay, which is ridiculously low and needs to be increased. It's not enough to live on anywhere in the U.S.

However, CA has a progressive income taxand nobody making that amount would be paying 12% in taxes. It would be between 2-4% on approximately $24k-38k.

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My buddy’s and I used to get crazy excited to be able to surf during hurricanes in Florida when we were teenagers in the 2000s. I look back now and wonder how tf any of us are still alive

I think it's even further. Dunno, I've skied passed it many times, just never with a tape measure. But here's a picture that illustrates it.

https://imgur.com/a/zDf4rT1

You can very safely go off piste and even venture into the backcountry if you have the appropriate skills and preparation. Not really at all relevant to this

Depends. Some resorts do require you to have an uphill pass

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India.

> The eye drops are made in India, and "we understand that the same product is also marketed under other brand names," the company says. The manufacturer, Global Pharma Healthcare PVT Limited, is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on a recall, EzriCare says.

A whole lot of pharmaceuticals are made there.

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Ok, I read it, this is worse. You didn't have to be mean

That applies to a lot of television shows. People just looked older than they were back then.

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I definitely recalling watching episodes with him facing the challenger. But they were far and few between on US reruns.