Is this city or highway? The easy things are changing the engine air filter and tackling codes. My 95 gets 13 city 19 highway.

I've done camp muir (4.5k vert or so) after the snow consolidated late spring with my downhill setup on my back and wearing mountaineering boots / crampons. The sheer volume of hikers created a staircase/bootpack. I only did it once because it was heavy AF. I can see it working for hood where most people stash their skis before the summit anyway, no idea about Shasta.

You can just email or call the hotels to ask - I think it was 6 months in advance when I last booked.

You haven't completed a full financial lifecycle of your new car from purchase to sale/disposal. After 15 years your new car is now an old car and you've taken a 28k or so hit on depreciation/resale value. Meanwhile driving a series of used cars will reduce your depreciation. Cost of ownership is maintenance/repairs + insurance + depreciation and depreciation tends to be forgotten about until the very end.

And in my case driving a really old car let me take that cash and save for the downpayment on a home (that ended up appreciating rather than depreciating).

My last car was a 15 year old Subaru with 130k miles I bought for 5k. It cost me less than a grand in repairs and maintenance over 5 years and 50k miles. My cx-5 grand touring was 5 years old and 80k miles when I bought last year for 19k. The PPI said it was in perfect condition. Usually you can spend less on a car than most people think, because everyone wants the newest and latest. Cars are depreciating assets with the fastest depreciation happening in the first 5 years of ownership.

"Serious skiers" hate on noodly all mountain twintips, but they can be the funnest skis ever. Popping off side hits, bouncing through tight trees, working on butters on groomers and just generally screwing around.

Military then grad school

Until very recently you might toil in the fields for 80 hours a week and still die of famine. You need to work to feed yourself unless you have generational wealth.

My 90s SUV still has a computer for the engine, for the trans, for the airbag, for the abs, and even a computer for the rear air locker and any one of those can go bad but hasn't

Two strategies - lone wolf or den mother. You go do your own thing and meet for meals or you organize people so they have their shit together.

Only when the government was paying for it.

They are really slick and refined.

Literally right now - like this week while the end of season sales are going on (and before tariffs impact current inventory)

Yeah they probably got some hate mail for telling the truth there

Hike up from the tbar, and then the further in you traverse into the bowl usually it's less steep although you risk falling during the traverse like the guy at the end.

Ammo (s&b, wolf, pmc) and Optics (almost everyone) are imported

Don't sell now, just make sure you have a good emergency fund and start buying new investments in diversified ex-US equity funds and bond funds to balance the country specific risk you have.

I met a guy visiting Seattle from Florida with Fox News flowing through his airpods at all times as he walked around the city to counteract the LiBERal PRopAGanda he was seeing with his own eyes.

I saw a girl mismaneuver and bounce her head off a parked car on my street, couldn't get up after. Neighbors called an ambulance. As a motorcycle rider - they should be treated like motorcycles with helmets and gear.

Silencer Shop was great, Silencer Central had good service, but I felt the process was a bit slow.

PMC is Korean and Wolf is Taiwanese I think - heavily tariffed going forward.

Turkish clones drove down the market

I've got 107mm wide feet and have the salomon hv s/pros (102mm last) with a generous punch.

Pretty reliable - timing belt needs to be changed regularly and the variable intake system butterfly valves need to be tightened/loctited or removed, but otherwise just regular 20 year old suv things.

Pajero eats up road miles with the IFS/IRS but still performs offroad as well.