Thanks for the additional information re: International Polar Bear Day and bobsleigh/toboggan runs in your hometown back in Austria! Super Cool!

Regarding your “membership in the downhill snow sport club or any such related frozen fun society”, you’re absolutely a member in good standing! In my years, I just never bought into the alpine skiers vs Nordic or Tele skiers or versus snowboarders BS. Snow is fun, no matter how you like to slide! I will say, in all fairness, that alcohol and “Tower Padding” is highly discouraged and often illegal. Too many evenings have ended in major tragedy. Sounds fun, however super dangerous, riding a missile/tower pad on the snow, with multiple passengers, with no ability to stop, turn or even slow down, once you get going. You’d better have a long run with absolutely “zero” obstructions on the hill or run out! People have died, hitting the exact ski lift tower, they removed the pad off of, on the way up the hill! Tragic…

I’m listening to the CCAC meeting this morning and your issue of a two headed coin was discussed. It was explained that to comply with the law a portrait on the reverse of a coin needed to include the head, torso and hands.

I found listening to the meeting both interesting and frustrating. Frustrating because the designs for the Missouri Innovation Dollar and Willie O’Ree medal were not available online so it was difficult to follow their comments. I did find one image of the MID which I’m pretty sure is the winning design #10.

Also they mute the meeting while they score the designs and then come back without warning and announce the scores. You really have to pay attention because they don’t confirm the winning design afterwards saying “the scores speak for themselves.”

I’ll be better prepared for tomorrows meeting since all the designs were posted on this site and I’ll have pen and pad ready to record the scores as they are read.

Here are the results of todays meeting as best as I could understand them.

Hate to get too graphic Kaiser Wilhelm, however I’ve often told people, that if I were to somehow cut my wrist, there wouldn’t be any blood, just “Snowflakes” shooting out like you’d just entered a “Snow Globe” that had been frantically shaken by a 5 year old! That’s how much I Love snow and am completely and thoroughly enamored with, freshly fallen snow! MAGICAL!

In regards to your experience being only on a toboggan. It’s all good, as I also am in favor of any way, one chooses to slide or move on snow, as they are all fun and exhilarating! Trash bags, cafeteria trays, snow shoe, snow mobile, cross country, snowboard, alpine/downhill ski, telemark ski, ski boots w/o skis(hard snow), shovel, snow bike, toboggan, sleigh, saucer, inner tube, automobile, etc! Bring it, they are all Good, “from Diego to the Bay, it’s All Good”! BTW, of the above, only ones I’ve not tried are the snow bikes(ski in front for steering) and telemark skiing.

Once one, gains enough mileage, the much sought after feeling of Nirvana, can not be interrupted, held up by others, shenanigans, desires for food, potty breaks, lost skis, group meet ups and such. Talk and companionship, unless able or at a similar level of experience and desire for advanced powder terrain, is relegated to a short lunch maybe(?), chair/gondola ride and Apres Ski or dinner. The allure of untracked, is as good as “Gold” IMO and such a “Rush”!!!

Have an awesome time skiing in Colorado. Favorites I’ve skied are Copper Mountain(Enchanted Forrest) and Vail(Back Bowls/Blue Sky Basin). I’m having a bit of envy of your trip, again have a great time!

PS In the above, mentioned, whiny kids, would also be another interruption, that’s not good. However having taught children and adults both, I’ll usually opt for the whiny kid without their parents vs having to deal with a whiny adult. Unless of course, it’s a “Private Lesson”, as that pays considerably more, with usually more leeway on where you’re able to take them on the mountain! Good Times! Below is the kind of friends I like to ski with!

Anyone into pinball, there are also the Safecracker Tokens?

No one should be without friends on such a great day. Working in a last minute trip for the kids to Colorado this week.

Yeah Kaiser, I think perhaps I subliminally gained that particular insight, potentially from a “Little Diddy”, Julie Andrews gained notoriety for! Something about sweets as well as medicine and assistance with ingesting? Haha

So now here’s a bit of an interesting twist. That movie was released 18 days after my brothers birth and I happened to have been.born on the 18th. Hmmm….That is also the age in which my roots took hold, in an alpine environment, which eventually would become my handle. Pure bliss, whisking your worries away, on a frigid winters day! Lastly, my current age is also divisible by 18!Now if I could just find a wife 18 years my junior? LOL

PS No friends on a powder day! FRESHIES!
PSS NFPD is snow slang for ‘No Friends on Powder Days’. On fresh pow days, if you wait for your friends to get their shit together, chances are the resort trails will be tracked out before the day has even started! But never go into the backcountry alone, bring the right avalanche safety gear and get the correct training.

@Antonio and others,

Now the second part of the disclaimer makes a bit more sense to me, when looking again, at the entirety of the statement.

“No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin under subsections (x), (y), and (z).””

As long as the “Portrait” shows more than the Head and. Shoulders and she is no longer living(thanks Antonio!), the “Portrait” which is depicted is in compliance, Had she still been alive, then there would have been a problem.

I do understand this now,, however I’m wondering, what non-coin person “Is Not” going to look at this particular design and think 2 headed quarter? Which side is the reverse and which is the obverse(Heads)?

However, I still feel, even though it now makes more since from a written standpoint, this coin is going to be wrought with questions???

Lastly, this brought to my attention, the fact that the Women recognized on this AWQ’s series are able to be recognized, even if still living. Bad assumption on my part that one must be dead in order to be put on an official US Minted coin. Doh!

BTW, Major D, this is “Proof”, that I am not a Lawyer. LOL Just gotta love me a big helping of “Humble Pie” ala mode! Yum!

For me political correctness is just common courtesy. Tell me what you want to be called and I’ll call you that.

Kaiser, isn’t it?