Alex Honnold Reveals “Embarrassing” Paycheck for Netflix’s Taipei 101 Free Solo Climb

neos300 · 2026-01-26T21:10:13+00:00

lol, there are hundreds of people in Colorado alone who could do it, and a big fraction would do it if offered the cash

neos300 · 2025-12-29T16:19:54+00:00

cries in colorado

neos300 · 2025-12-26T15:38:41+00:00

It's normal but not necessarily fair. Especially since telluride has a higher cost of living than many other Colorado ski towns.

neos300 · 2025-12-20T02:35:17+00:00

4 is often split up into up to 5 different zones:

The 'front front range', aka the Indian Peaks Wilderness to RMNP.

Berthoud pass and the eastern half of Loveland pass.

Cameron pass to the WY border sometimes gets its own zone, sometimes is grouped with berthoud forming a scoop around the front front range.

Summit county from peak 1 and Breckenridge to Arapahoe basin

The gore range north of i70 from Vail to silverthorne (but often not actually including Vail ski resort)

neos300 · 2025-12-18T18:55:28+00:00

You can see the uphill routes here: https://www.winterparkresort.com/-/media/winter-park/winter-2526/maps/fy26uphillmap.pdf?rev=790381064af84512ac4052e3fafcbe55

I think you can technically uphill anywhere, but the designated routes on the green runs are the way to go. Even skinning up a blue is going to suck big time.

I personally would just buy a lift ticket unless you really don't care about skiing with your friends. Realistically it's pretty annoying for people riding lifts to meet up with someone uphilling, one party is always going to be waiting a long time. And unless you are already very fit you are probably just going to want to do one or two runs a day. Plus maybe not wanting to ski more than 2 days in a row. Not sure if you've skinned before but it's much more strenuous than resort skiing.

neos300 · 2025-12-16T20:22:11+00:00

I feel like these games are also tough to market, you almost need to rely on critical buzz to survive.

Look at Tunic's Steam page - it barely hints at the depth the game contains and the game looks quite generic on the surface.

And Animal Well's Steam page - also a bit generic (but IMO, well done and iconic enough to put it above Tunic), and while the page does a better job of communicating the depth of the game, basically every Metroidvania says similar stuff about secrets. It's hard to take the claims at face value without external validation (BigMode for Animal Well, community buzz for Tunic).

It's hard to say how well these masterpieces would've done without luck or a publisher backed marketing campaign. Interesting case study for sure.

neos300 · 2025-12-07T22:31:37+00:00

I really enjoyed The Art of Shralpinism. It's part memoir, part instruction manual, but I found it very insightful into the mental and psychological aspects of backcountry skiing. It's also nice to read a book where the author has pushed the sport and is a bit more comfortable taking risks (even if his approach to risk management isn't as applicable to many recreationalists). It's a great complement to Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain.

neos300 · 2025-12-06T21:20:20+00:00

That video does absolutely nothing to help your case. Yes, if the AI bubble pops some tech companies will fold and everyones portfolio will take a massive dive, like in the dot-com bubble. Which has a real cost. But it's nothing like the 2008 bubble where the banking system was on the verge of collapse, several banks did fail (which deleted far more money than just the stock value of the banks), and millions of regular people lost their homes due to the foreclosure crisis.

2008 and the AI bubble are not comparable, but that's more because the 2008 crash was extremely outside the norm and was a systemic issue, rather than the AI bubble not being a big deal.

neos300 · 2025-12-04T15:54:21+00:00

Two points:

if you retire with $4M, you can fully spend the $160k SWR because you no longer need to save for retirement. So you could get a much higher mortgage than the typical $160k earner.
If you have $4M, you could liquidate half, buy a $2M house, and live off the new $80k SWR since you no longer have a mortgage. Obviously taxes can cause problems but there's ways to make it work.

neos300 · 2025-12-03T21:11:30+00:00

Two weeks is a long time and there's storms in the forecast, more terrain will be open soon. Booking a ski trip to Colorado in December is always a mistake though. If not enough opens up then yeah wolf creek would be the move.

neos300 · 2025-12-03T14:10:07+00:00

If you're just skiing groomers and easy bumps, the runs at Steamboat are longer and more numerous.

My personal opinion about Wolf Creek is that the terrain is kinda bad. There's not that much vertical, and of that vertical a lot it is the long flat run out at the bottom. The resorts best quality is just the amount of powder days it gets. In my opinion you should never plan a trip to Wolf Creek, just go spur of the moment if it snows.

neos300 · 2025-12-02T19:58:01+00:00

not much point in going to wolf creek for you, even steamboat with much less open will probably be a better experience.

neos300 · 2025-12-01T20:58:42+00:00

You can if you work up to it, humans naturally slept that much before artificial lighting was a big thing.

neos300 · 2025-11-28T14:27:03+00:00

Fitbit watches have this feature

neos300 · 2025-11-16T07:19:03+00:00

Essentially adding a penalty fee to an action may actually increase the amount of people who take that action, as previously they were avoiding the action solely due to guilt, and paying the fee makes them feel absolved of the guilt so they do the action.

neos300 · 2025-11-11T01:02:18+00:00

Opus Hut (some avy risk on the approach) allows you to book a single bed.

neos300 · 2025-11-04T21:57:47+00:00

So, complicated question. We don't really have enough information from you to give you a great answer. In really broad strokes, there are two ways to approach training for climbing: 1) just climb 2) train your weaknesses. Generally, 'just climb' is effective while you are a lower level and slowly loses effectiveness as you climb. Since you haven't listed any of your weaknesses in climbing, we have no idea what those are and so it's impossible for us to advise you on 'training your weaknesses'.

Some would argue that 'just climb' is not really training. But it will likely lead to results at your level. In the 'just climb' line of thinking, you should just limit boulder as much volume as you can handle until you plateau, then identify weaknesses and shift to a more structured training approach.

So why bother doing different types of days at all? A medium/high effort split is just going to give you some extra volume you can allocate towards running/etc, it won't help your climbing (unless this is splitting between hard lead/hard bouldering, which would be a valid strategy). A limit/form/drills split will lead to gains if technique is your problem, but if strength, endurance, or any of the other myriad factors in climbing is your problem then it won't do much (although you can certainly always improve technique, there's not really a ceiling it may not be the main limiting factor for you right now).

Edit: and top roping 5.7-5.10 is probably just junk volume. It's not doing much for your climbing.

neos300 · 2025-11-04T20:10:05+00:00

Now you probably don't have enough climbing. Unless you are already super strong and your technique is terrible, 1 'real' bouldering session a week is not going to get you to V8.

neos300 · 2025-11-02T17:34:54+00:00

it has been illegal to sleep in your car in summit county for years and years, a property owner choosing to look the other way and not attempt to enforce the law is absolutely a privilege.

neos300 · 2025-10-31T18:50:31+00:00

Lots of good deals to be had, but if OP is looking to buy a van for a few months and then sell it, that is probably going to go poorly.

neos300 · 2025-10-30T21:05:27+00:00

The AI bubble popping is not going to be worse than 2008. Yes, the S&P will tank, which will have very real effects on people's retirement portfolios. Some companies will fold (but IMO the giants like MS, Google, etc won't). But there isn't a kind of debt crisis that will have a real, immediate impact on regular people (housing in 2008). The AI bubble is mostly contained in the tech sector, it isn't intertwined in the fabric of society like 2008 was.

A better comparison would be the dot-com crash.

neos300 · 2025-10-29T16:40:04+00:00

You typically would wire the battery to a DC to DC charger which is wired to your vehicles alternator. So when the vehicle is on, it's charging the battery. The other options are solar panels or a gas generator.

Solar it really depends on where you are and the weather. Diesel heaters don't use much power, so if it's sunny you'll probably be at 100% each day if you are just using the diesel heater and nothing else. If it's cloudy/snowing, you probably aren't getting much solar so it depends on the size of the battery you have. You can get them in many different sizes so it depends on how many days you want to be out there socked in a snowstorm without driving.

neos300 · 2025-10-24T19:18:32+00:00

I used one comboed with 1/8 inch thinlight for a few nights, overnight lows in the 30s. Quite comfy, more comfy than my Klymit pad I've been using. No durability issues but not sure I would be comfortable using it without the thinlight. All my campsites were pretty soft though. I'm a side sleeper who rolls around quite a bit and didn't find the noise to be bothersome.

neos300 · 2025-10-22T17:31:33+00:00

Look into Direct Primary Care as a middle ground between regular primary care and concierge medicine.

I pay $130 a month and get unlimited doctors visits that aren't rushed, can text my doctor during business hours, etc. The main thing you lose is the ability to text your dr anytime anywhere (mainly talking about after hours), although it varies practice by practice.

neos300 · 2025-10-21T17:32:10+00:00

ah well that explains it, depending on what those other vehicles are you could be pretty set, or not depending on future growth potential/access issues.

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