Monica’s for the sandwiches

Same with Shiffrin. Legit all the Women World Cup skiers study Shiffrin’s form because she is legs and arms above the competition.

What? She has two gold medals in the Olympics, won 10 World Championships, and the all time wins leader. She is amazing.

Greatest Skier of all time male or female. Technically she is so gifted. Bode Miller has said she is the best technical skier (male or female) he has ever seen.

UVM leaving the NCAA would hurt donations. They would never do that.

If I am using the bus, I use Dartmouth Coach. It stops by exit 18 on 89 in NH and is about 30 bucks to get in.

Born in NH but moved to Vermont when I was 3. Grew up in VT and parents still live there. Does that still make me a native Vermonter?

That’s not true though. If you are simply Eastern European, it will say that you are Eastern European. If you are of Ashkenazi or Sephardic descent, it says that. When Jewish people moved to those regions, they were insular.

It’s an ethnoreligion which is different than a religion.

That’s not true. If you get a DNA test and you are Jewish, it would say Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jew.

Of course I would love that. How big of a priority would that be. Just the tracks alone (not including any other expenses) would be over 100 million (based on the 1-2 million dollar estimates for cost per mile). Is there enough squeeze for that when there is already a Boston to Montréal proposal going through Maine?

I would love to have it happen. What is the recent precedent? How would there be funding for this considering it would need bipartisan approval in congress?

Not sure why I am downvoting for mentioning the current state of rail funding in the US.

How would we get federal funding for that when there is currently no line between Houston and Dallas? Nashville and Atlanta? Las Vegas and LA? Cincinnati to Cleveland? Rural lines in Vermont would be like 200th on the list.

The places that would get funding first would be higher population areas and areas with higher economic output.

It's called being realistic (which takes into account public sentiment). If this project would come into reality, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars. When would that ever get approved? Look at the Concord to Lebanon line. That is about 60 miles between them. At current costs of building tracks, that would cost well over 100 million dollars. That doesn't include other costs related to it. It just doesn't make since in this environment to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in a place as rural as Vermont. We should always shoot for the stars but we need to be realistic.

It would never happen in a million years. Vermont would not add any other lines since it wouldn't make sense economically for the state. Our population is too small to support so many lines, especially when there are much more populated areas in the country without rail coverage.

Derby Line Village Inn has really really good authentic Austrian cuisine. The chef is from there

Still think Hill Farmstead is well above it.

You realize she was recovering from the death of her father during the Olympics. What a sad person you are.

He dad died falling off a ladder a year before. She was still going through that when the Olympics happened.

Yeah, the death of her father really effected her skiing for the previous couple years or so. It’s hard to quantify how important the mental aspect of skiing is.

It’s either going to be this year or at her “home” race in Killington.

Cloudland does (at least in the summer).

Cloudland Farm or Simon Pearce

To be fair, she was still dealing with the mental effects of the death of her father then. That was huge on her.