Recent content by Patrick

Last weekend of April: down to 6 ski areas. https://madpatski.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/raining-down-the-season-eastern-closing-2024-week-3/

I'm not surprised. I could see this coming. Less worried about Solden. Running a GS race doesn't require the same logistics and weather conditions as a speed event. I believe it's the national teams, not FIS racers. Not sure it's good economics in part of Zermatt as many spend some serious...

The list of options is washing away... https://madpatski.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/raining-down-the-season-eastern-closing-2024-week-3/

The backside snowfields were closed; apparently it was pretty bony. WhiteNitro definitely prime, the top part was somewhat firm, but very edgeable, definitely one of my favorites at Sugarloaf. The temperature started getting warm for the season on Saturday/Sunday. Open half of the mountain was...

This week's update. https://madpatski.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/post-eclipse-eastern-closing-2024-week-2/

Part 2. First run after totality. Of course, you can't see the eclipse in the background.

Blinded by the Light was my favorite song for at least one month back when I was in 5th grade. Orientation of most of my pictures are SW expect the one with the closest antenna which is more south. Hard to tell from the pictures, but we had a great view of Sunday River and Mount Washington in...

Bucket list: skiing during a total solar eclipse. Done. ;)

Hi, I normally start prior to the first weekend of April, but as April 1st was a Monday, I did a prelude last week. Here are the links so far. All written very fast, but information should be fairly accurate...

A slight modification to my Eastern Closing thread. Total Solar Eclipse skiing rundown – Part 1b https://madpatski.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/total-solar-eclipse-skiing-rundown-part-1b/

We got a good bump in Ottawa two weekend in a row and areas north of the St. Lawrence River. Finally looks like Winter here. In the last ten days we've had temps closest to normal (ie. below freezing and minimums lower than -10c), so snowmaking have been working overtime to catch up.

The Zermatt-Cervinia course has been controversial from the start, many people thought that the weather/wind for a downhill on the hill in November would be problematic; they only managed 2 training runs out and 0 races out of 10 days for Men and Women combined. Not sure if the races will...

You are correct about the Vail/Beaver Creek in 2015, I had a blind spot for what was really recent. ;) If I remember correctly, the 1983 Tremblant World Cup was suppose to be held at Ste-Anne, but due to lack of snow, the race got move to Tremblant. Not really a challenging Downhill as it...

I remember, but didn't realized that they tried for 3 consecutive years.

Here is the list of resorts East/West, Canada/US in North American that hosted Alpine World Cups which started in 1966-67. Numbers doesn't include Olympics* or World Championships* which started in the 1930s. World Cup 22: Ste-Anne QC 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1989 6: Tremblant QC...