Recent content by skiandgolfnut

So it’s helicopter or bust? What a shit show. And even once they open it, there must be a line of trucks that will prevent people from getting up there for many days still.

Seems to me having watched this each year and now getting shut out of Portillo the only real solution seems to be booking a late august trip well in advanced which gives you until basically the end of July to take advantage of their 30 day cancellation window. They still charge a fee but you can...

I reached out to powderquest as they booked Portillo for me in the past before Portillo had online bookings. They said August is completely full. I cannot go until 9/12 but it is available and Im considering just doing it. Portillo or bust for me, it is the hotel/experience/views/steeps that...

Do we think September 12th roughly will be too late? Seems like August got too crazy but Portillo has some more openings in September.

The Portillo miniweek I could feasibly do ~8/15 seems to already be sold out. In fact that whole week seems to be mostly sold out other than suites which are out of my price range. I'd imagine these are all recent bookings. Too bad, direct flights from JFK are ~850$ which seems pretty reasonable.

As Chris said when I first went mini weeks were only offered occasionally over the course of the summer. Now they make it much easier. Theyve also added online reservation systems which make it much easier. While I agree with the sentiments on the skiing itself (which can be quite excellent if...

Both my trips have been in late August in years following big July storms like this. I’ve always gotten impression that is spring skiing and it’s tough to imagine the season lingering on much longer than that.

Ive been following Portillio forecasts each summer for a decade and while sometimes they are outlandish this one is at another level. Will have to wait and see how things shake out but its entirely possible August in Portillo is worthwhile this year.

Small section but they kept it open yesterday. All in all it was a great day out there yesterday. Front side from 12-2 was great, wish they would stay open until 3 but no complaints. Rasta chutes, regulator, great Scott all skiing very well and even the bump runs on lower Peruvian were pleasant...

At Snowbird? Looked like Mineral may not have even opened today. My dad beat me by a day and said Alta was great today 11-1 but he mainly sticks to cruising at this point.

Uch. Hadn’t really looked at terrain openings. Not pretty. Last time I was there in April I remember that area skiing great even in the warmth. They already announced 8-2 through Sunday at minimum.

I do one tune up at the start of the season and that’s it but no real game plan. Probably a good idea though.

Figured I would post this here--I will be out there (Snowbird) Saturday, Sunday, Monday. This is the coming forecast Curious from those that ski there regularly. How should I plan my days? They already announced today's hours as 8-2 due to wet slides. Im going to assume it will be the same...

Maybe not the off piste but looks like a blue bird day in Zermatt to me. Always special!

Looks pretty great to me. Due to fly to Snowbird Friday. Between the TSA scenes bombarding my social media and the doom and gloom from Opensnow I needed some photos like that to keep me sane!