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2005-06 was also Mammoth's record high attendance season before Alterra took over and no longer will release them. There is debate...

We drove Tuesday afternoon, hit Sherwin Grade around sunset. Cloud bank below White Mountains: About 10 minutes later, view of...

Brundage base of 5,840 is high for its region. I'd assume rain issues like this December are very rare. Schweitzer is still only half...

I finally got around to checking out airfares to next August's eclipse in Spain. We fly home from Madrid and airfares are about $950...

Cottonwood Canyons are climbing out of their hole with 40-44 inches so far in the New Year. It was a big hole, as still barely half of...

JimK and his son could join a group to ski the scenic Petit Envers through the scenic icefalls as I did with NASJA in 2004. I suspect...

Japan lift service is marginal in terms of pitch for that much snow, as I found out my last day in Niseko in 2011. The steady "lake...

I've spent a lot of time on Google Earth today with Stuart's post on China and South Korea. Thus I've looked up these NY ski areas...

lift served was at Mt. Baldy, Mar. 21, 1991. 22,000 vertical untracked. Thunder Mt. is 1,000 vertical but the chair is 2.4 - 1 ratio...

Among consensus top 3 for scenery in the Alps (with Zermatt, though Liz among many would also cite the Dolomites). For skiing both...

No more than 500 vertical per my Google Earth file. Length to vertical ratio is 4-1, adequate for powder skiing unless it's really...

Purgatory is 48% open on 32 inches season-to-date snowfall. Price sounds fair to me!

Specifics of Mammoth this week (socal's trip and ours upcoming) are moved here.

Jimk needs to be heeding the advice ChrisC is posting now. Wherever Jimk goes, he also should hire guides for the first couple of days...

All forecast by OpenSnow and probably anyone else who looked at weather models. Even though Mammoth didn't get the rain, we wanted no...