Recent content by jamesdeluxe

Yes but you skied some of the most famous ski areas. The more obscure ones don't have that amount of infrastructure. It would be interesting to measure the combined acreage and number of lifts at LCC/BCC and see how that compares to, say, Serre Chevalier -- not the biggest but pretty expansive...

Worldskitraveller is appreciative for the seven pages of posts and bemused by the vigor of the comments. I alerted him to your follow-up questions and he can reply without me as a filter.

My view: Instead of skiing, it could be visiting every In-N-Out Burger in the U.S. or every bowling alley that has a church in its bar (it exists, google it!). To me, it's fascinating due to the intense planning-and-execution aspect and that he skis (as little as one hour), takes photos, and...

Thanks for the thoughtful comments and it's interesting that his trip makes us revisit a number of topics we've addressed in the past. Yes, but it's a bit of a joke in the first place: Without a set of ironclad rules about what counts as an individual ski area and what doesn't, it's subject to...

The NYC metro area is massive and you live on the outer edge in a location with much newer (1950 and later?) homes so that makes sense.

We'd never encountered it until our move to NJ. Everyone here uses natural gas for their water heaters and clothes dryers; however, the majority of people use oil for heat. The houses where we live tend to be older than the national average, 100 to 140 years, and those have radiators/no duct work.

Not entirely fair. I asked about the smaller joints that impressed him and he replied. What do you want, a book report? 🤠

Here's a catchall thread for anything non-skiing-related about the lovely tri-state region: Our house early Monday during a lull in the storm. We ended up in the low 20s. My cousin near Providence, RI won the contest in the upper 30s. The day after, hacking a path to our sidewalk for oil...

The more accurate smiley is :eusa-think:! Close enough for government work! You can look him up. He's the director of career services, which IMO doesn't necessarily have a bearing on this road trip.

I don't feel that you spent a sufficient amount of time there to understand the true essence of Fairmont Hot Springs. :smileyvault-stirthepot:

I agree. Each ski forum has its own personality and specific form of give and take. For better and worse, ^^ that is a longstanding attribute of FTO, going back two decades. And yes, he's definitely enjoying himself. I was impressed by his energy level and good mood. At that point, I would've...

I'm pleased that several FTOers have engaged with this story over the past six weeks, even if mainly to air their outrage or question Worldskitraveller's bona fides as a skier. As I noted upthread, I'm fascinated as much by the pearl-clutching here as by his "extreme breadcrumb" approach to the...

Nice pix. Remind me what Panorama's annual snowfall average is? IIRC, it's 160-180 inches? Here's Storm Skiing's review based on a visit last February.

Hadn't skiers from the two coasts been relocating en masse to SLC for years, primarily for Alta/Snowbird, and Ikon then exacerbated the existing issue? I can't remember which FTOer the collective advised to consider that very point before moving there. Every person has a different point at which...