Ski Bum Poet

A friend of mine is selling his VERY established web site (AlpineZone.com) that’s all about skiing in the Northeast. This site is a cost per sale Affiliate marketer’s dream…as there are established revenue streams, and it’s primed and ready for more growth. Check out the dynamic gear catalogs powered by our company. If interested in learning more, including asking price and other details, please email Greg Blasko with contact/at/alpinezone.com.

I just submitted a testimonial to the owner for the sale of this site, which reads:

“AlpineZone.com has several of the most important elements established for generating solid, cost per sale Affiliate marketing revenue. These include a strong, passionate outdoor community, huge site authority and a branded, sustainable web legacy for New England & Northeast Skiing enthusiasts.”

Check out the Flippa Auction for AlpineZone.com…

Ellie drinking water out of my hydration pack, wearing her vintage corduroy outfit…

You can buy this rack from Backcountry.com, and have it shipped free if you live in one of the lower 48 states.

Are you in the market for a hitch mounted bike rack? Check out the Thule TranSport T2 if so. After installing and using it a few times, I am psyched with it. In fact I was compelled to take a few photos, and talk it up…so here goes.

Thule far and away has the best mountain bike hitch rack on the market. I’ve used lots of different hitch racks, and there always seemed to be something annoying me with others. Overly complicated, too flimsy, flexing/bouncing around expensive bikes on rough roads, etc.. not into worrying about bikes on roofs or on some lame strap rack. There is nothing to worry about with this rack system!

Mounting it was a LOT easier than I expected. After a few easy steps out of the box, it was time to bolt the T2 on to my Tacoma’s hitch receiver. This thing is burly, and perfectly capable of handling any mountain bike…from big freeride rigs up to 60lbs, to my 24lb 29er single speed. The rack sits about knee high, and there is nothing to do but put the bikes on and clamp them down. No BS straps, no bungees and no removing wheels. It takes about 45 seconds to load two bikes.

What I especially appreciate is having the bikes dialed in before leaving home. We show up where we’re going to ride, park and start pedaling. Although I did not get a photo, the Thule T2 also folds up nicely when not in use. About the only draw back is that now I have to lift our old dog up on to the tailgate b/c he can’t jump up and over the rack

The main features for the T2 are listed below, or click here for PDF tech manuals direct from Thule.

• No wheel removal, no frame contact
• Folds up for storage
• Fits a wide range of bikes
• Carries bikes up to 60 lbs
• Fits wheels 20″-29″ up to 3″ wide tires
• Accommodates bike with wheel bases up to 48″
• Locking accessory available
• Thule One-KeyTM System Compatible

Buy this rack from Backcountry.com

or browse the entire Thule product line.

NOTE: You can get this item shipped for free anywhere within the contiguous United States.

How about that. A ski bum can have an office, too. Well “retired” ski bums can have them anyway I can’t say I have access to lunch time single track, but I’m not complaining. The pluses include discount memberships to the Fit Stop if we want them, a huge working space (with only a desk and chair right now) and a killer all inclusive price which includes any day/time accessibility, electricity, a solid broad band Internet connection and easy access to the Dutch Hollow trail system in Heber Valley. Beats working out of our bedroom in Timberlakes.

A video of Tara singing He’s Gone with Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann’s trio, BK3, on 5/29/09

Nine mile skid
on a ten mile ride
Hot as a pistol
but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof
Dogs in a pile
Nothing left to do but
smile, smile, smile

Way to go Tara! I smiled for the whole ten minutes watching this…

I sat quiet in the evening as the sun went down filming our two year old doing what toddlers do…

Ever noticed that you can create TinyURL custom aliases from their main form (on homepage) for the service? Actually, I guess I should ask first if you know what TinyURL is. Haha. Here is the description on their site header. Pretty simple..

Making long URLs usable! More than 240 million of them. Over 2 billion hits/month.

Check this link: http://tinyurl.com/fatskis, which redirects to my Squidoo lens for “Fat Skis” (I just snagged the “fatskis” alias from TinyURL, a long with about 60 other aliases over the past week or so. Not sure why but going on the notion that keywords in URLs you control hold at least some value). At any rate </end> geek web marketer post …just thought it was cool.

Even a Bush appointed Defense Secretary agrees with the decision to shut down Guantanamo. I will reserve any more personal comment because I said I was done with political commentary on this blog.

We’ve been working hard at the KSL classifieds for a couple of months now, trying to find the perfect, small and low cost camping trailer. It’s mainly to keep the wee one off the ground sleeping, but I have to be honest…I’m kinda looking forward to a queen mattress for camp nights for once. Must be getting old

Today was rough b/c we had a tent trailer in our sites. It was a Viking “Mini Gasser” and it was compact and about 750 lbs with a cargo storage unit on top. Told the seller at around 10am that we were interested, and would be there in around two hours (as we are about an hour drive from SLC). By the time we got to Salt Lake it was gone.

The day ended up really good though. Not only did we head downtown for the Living Traditions Festival (for lunch YUM), but we hung out with a few friends after we have not seen in a while.

At any rate check out this little camper. It’s 10 feet long and no used turd receptacle. This is a cropped pic direct from the ad, and here is the description that was posted with the ad photos:

This is a great trailer. I will post pics of the inside later this evening.

It has 3 types of lights
-shore power (works)
-12V (works)
-Propane (works)

The Heater and Stove work both great (I know I used them last night!!)

This trailer has a sink, fridge, storage. Two very large benches which turn into a great sized bed (larger than a queen).

There is all a fold down twin size bunk.

The trailer has newer 15inch rims.

I rewired the harness and installed new marker and tail lights (LED BABY!!)

As you can see in the pics this thing pulls perfect behind a pickup and would compliment a jeep perfectly.

Sold. Sick of fartzing around looking for one of these. Time is money shopping around everywhere for days and miles on end. Get ‘er done. Plus now I can remove the damn live RSS bookmark for the ad category at KSL from my Firefox toolbar! Made the deal over the phone and we’ll have it hitched up by 9am, with a quick pit stop on our way to Cache Valley for a day visit with family.