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My daughter has just finished her university course and is floating about just doing her part time hospitality work until next year...

The point is what an outlier that season was. It looks like we get a slow start in the 60-70% range maybe a bit more often than once a...

Crikey. That’s grim. Even though I have no intention of going anywhere near North America for skiing this winter I’ll make a point of...

This crowd are extremely highly regarded for central Hokkaido guiding...

And due to higher elevation no rain unlike the other areas. Even when staying in the valley that will be the option if we get a very...

I’m the same. Long haul is no great chore. I usually get between 7 and 9 hours sleep.

did you notice the insanely low temps in NE China and Russia...classic LE set up....works here in NY too

Very sadly the opportunities for the kids to ski with us are now really limited due to their relatively new found work schedules. We...

It's not only related to XF btw (some of the major bugs have already been patched here since it isn't available in the latest XF version...

Yeah, saw a comment from Evan in his OpenSnow Daily Snow for Utah after I posted. He said "OpenSnow, along with a huge chunk of the...

My friends and I do not think the same way you do. There is more than one reason for a small group of retired friends from multiple...

To state the obvious -- that's a huge advantage when the trip is a week or less. I've mentioned how impressive it is that Sbooker and...

I’ve ripped this off the Aussie ski forum - “Storms" (low pressure troughs and cold fronts) are not really what determines normal heavy...

I am catching a train from Narita to Tokyo city (Ueno specifically) for a few tourist days in late January before going to the hills...

We won’t go to Habuka in an endeavour to avoid the swathes of my fellow countrymen. We’ll stay in the valley somewhere around...