# Waiting for Winter | E74

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Podcast: [Mind the Track](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mind-the-track-6307658)
Published: 2025-11-14T16:25:41+00:00
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Halfway through November and there’s no sign of Old Man Winter in Lake Tahoe. As the boys await a proper early season dump to whiten the mountains, they catch up on life and a bunch of listener feedback. Topics of discussion include what activities do you do in the transition between fall riding and winter skiing, what is the single best sport in the Tahoe region, helicopter skiing in the Sweetwater range, Jim Morrison’s historic first ski descent on the north face of Mount Everest, listener feedback on rescinding the Roadless Rule, are blue square flow trails DOPE or DERP and has Red Bull Rampage gone too far? In classic old man Statler and Waldorf fashion, PowBot rants about text laid over Instagram Reels and Trail Whisperer rants about a rope swinger getting arrested in order to get more Instagram followers and sell a bunch of t-shirts.   3:30 – Slurp Man and Snack Man not so popular 4:40 – Pow Bot talks about ASMR – Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response 5:50 – The etymology of fingernails on a chalkboard 7:00 – The dangers of using a claw hammer 9:30 – Getting out of shape, fitness and getting older. It’s harder to off-the-couch adventures. 11:00 – Recap on Fred Stamm’s Giro di StaMMina mountain bike adventure near Quincy 13:40 – The weird transitional time between Fall and Winter. What activities do you do? 19:00 – The Slugfest mountain bike ride in Reno 21:45 – Shout out to Truckee Dirt Union – benefactor of the Alpenglow Speaker Series on 12/5 23:25 – NEWS THAT MATTERS – Jim Morrison the first to ski the North Face of Mount Everest 30:00 – Sweetwater Heli launches as the only helicopter skiing business in California 33:00 – Four wolves in Sierra Valley euthanized by CDFW after killing 75+ cattle 37:00 – Hiker dies falling off a cliff on Mount Whitney in icy…

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