Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster

Re:Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing... by stephencanon on Saturday July 09, 2016 @04:05PM (#12063049)

If skiing/climbing/hiking are what you want specifically, you can do a lot better than the bay area in the US. The bay area is good for these things, but there are plenty of places in north america that are closer to better opportunities for them (especially skiing!)

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Re:Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing... by dasil003 on Saturday July 09, 2016 @06:45PM (#12063683)

Yeah once you live in the Rockies you realize how overcrowded the California resorts are, and how bad the snow is relative to what you get at 10-14k feet.

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Re:Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing... by praneshp on Sunday July 10, 2016 @02:35AM (#12064767)

Do you feel sick at 14k? I will go to Colorado to ski for the first time this year. Wanted to go last year but then we had a great season at Tahoe.

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Re:Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing... by dasil003 on Sunday July 10, 2016 @04:12AM (#12064916)

No, but I was living at 7k in Santa Fe at the time. Also that will be just the top of the lifts, pretty sure all the bases are below 12 or 13k.

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Re:Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing... by stephencanon on Sunday July 10, 2016 @10:40PM (#12068540)

There's nothing lift-serviced in the US above 13k feet. Colorado has a number of 14ers, but no lifts run that high; the highest is Breck, where the highest lift runs to just below 13k. That's high enough to make everything more tiring, but low enough that there's no serious effects for most people. Even in CO, most ski lifts top out between 11k and 12k.

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