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The ski area likely did not want to continue to pay for snowmaking with an unknown opening date. Snowmaking is incredibly expensive.

Mark was on his 3rd trip this season when we started. He told me that every trip this year has involved some uphill assent. He even had a special run on day 2 with a 2 hour touring assent to the very summit of their highest peak. He was able to ski a long steep descent that is rarely...

We did 2 total runs that involved ski touring. Vertical assent each time was approximately 100 meters and we likely spent about 15 minutes each time skinning up. We also did another run with a short 5-8 minute boot pack up to a higher location.. The small groups, steep chutes, clearly...

By the 3rd day, we had skied a lot of the alpine and 4 of us wanted to try touring to do something different and therefore approached the guide with a request to try some touring. For me, I had never done skinning before and felt this was an excellent opportunity to try it with excellent guide...

Another scenic photo from yesterday at Mustang. Touring out of a run called 5th dimension.

Rain was predominantly below 6000 feet, and moisture petered ot when temperatures warmed above freezing to 10000 feet. Somehow sun actually feels warm now. Lows around 20 and highs upper 20’s. Lower elevation that got full on rain are indeed bulletproof. Higher elevations have varying...

I am currently at Mustang. Surprisingly skiing is better than I was expecting. Clear blue skis and temps fluctuating around the freezing mark. As Tony speculated, we are predominantly skiing in the alpine. We have been getting predominantly spring like conditions with some...

Le Massif, when not on strike, also has nighttime sledding. https://www.lemassif.com/en/activities-events/charlevoix-attractions/sledding

I am now at Mustang lodge. Haven’t skied yet. Snow is firm at lodge level. Apparently today’s group had fun, but did not describe the snow as powder.

It so unfortunate that common sense can no longer prevail.

This “trail” doesn’t appear on the map. Perhaps thats part of the reasoning. However how is the risk any different than the 10,000 trees all over the mountain, with the exception that these will not have a deep snow immersion risk. Overall in Canada, society is less litigious, and therefore...

I found wood power lines at Lake Louise as well. Perhaps this is simply more common in Canada.

After skiing at Lake Louise a second day that included blue skies, I can confidently state that the coverage is the best that I have ever skied there. Back bowls are really remarkable. Someone I rode a lift with said he was skiing lines today that he hasn’t skied for 40 years purely due to...

US car rental companies are not very good at providing vehicles optimally equipped for winter mountain driving. Having either dedicated winter tires or chains would be appropriate in some locations.

Overnight there was some frozen precip in Revelstoke at 600m. Top of Rogers pass at about 1200 m had slush on the road. I dont think rain snow line was this high.