Recent content by socal

I had an amazing powder day in 2009 at Snowbaisn. Lifts and lodges are amazing and the terrain is really good. I’m currently in Sun Valley which clearly feels at lot like Snowbasin. No crowds or liftlines and soft snow, we did well for the holiday weekend.

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I agree. I've been to Utah dozens of times and only skied Park City once. The mountains don't even look like the Cottonwoods, they look closer to an east coast mountain. I've been to Snowbasin and Powder Mountain several times. I'll probably have work outings in PC, but otherwise I'd never go.

It was raining at the base of Alyeska when I was there last January. They had a decent base though, it was a good start to the winter.

I would first find the answer to the question about the quality of the air. For instance the contaminants in air is not unknowable, you can easily test for it and also use the existing air monitors (which you can track in near real time) as a proxy for where contaminants might have gone or when...

Logic will never prevail. My 8 year olds friend isn't allow to play sports and wears a mask outside, anytime, to this day. Sad, people get bad info from people they think should be trustworthy but instead its just a bunch of BS from unqualified people who want power.

That's her, she's the worst. Remember in the summer of 2022 when most people had moved on with life that she tried to reinstate a mask mandate? It took what seemed to be public outcry and the board of supervisors to stop it. LA Times Link

Our officials here, most notably our head of public health like to over do everything and scare people. They can't let a crisis go to waste and not get in front of cameras. We have friends who have listened to her like gospel and still to this day put their kids in N95 masks to go outside and...

People who lost their houses in the Palisades are almost certainly the ones moving to NYC. Most have the means. There just isn’t enough housing around West LA and Beverly Hills to absorb them all. They have to go somewhere, if you lived in NY 5-10 years ago, it’s an easy choice.

It’s the thick trees on the run out to the catch road and variable snow that concerns me on the back of bachelor. Anyway we took the easy route and going to mammoth. Flights were $700 each and the only direct flight home was 6am and that’s an hour drive from Sunstone.

Got it, kids are 8 and 10 years old, lower experts, we skied Climax on the last day over he holiday weekend! Was very proud of them. They liked the Gravy Chute alot, and we made an unfortunate wrong turn where we found out, not quite ready for Avy chutes, rocks on both sides spooked them but...

We had planned to go to snowbird since it's a holiday weekend anyway but figuring if they don't have school we could leave on Thursday which makes non Utah destinations make more sense. We had planned to ski Sat, Sun, and half Monday before a 6pm flight. Not a lot of other places you can ski...

I've skied Summit which I enjoyed but the backside runs aren't for my kids at this point. The groomer down the front was fun but a lot of it isn't ideal for them. While the amazing cheap houses you can rent in Sunstone are pretty appealing, the 20 min drive isn't the best. Its on the list...

Sorry for the thread hijack. We would be staying at the Cliff, we're bailing on that, its just too cold for them. Because of the fires they're giving us a credit good for 12 months, we'll go next year. Schweitzer sounds like a great idea. I went there before, it's a great choice. I haven't...

Frustated over here just east of the 405. School remains closed due to us being in an evacuation warning area but no fire and per the briefing this morning they have good control on the eastern end of the fire and just continuing hand work and just checking behind houses that didn't burn in the...