Recent content by Tony Crocker

Alpinfans is set up to compile massive detail from its posters. Example here. Only in the Alps can someone ski 163 ski areas in 63 ski days. Most Americans are impressed when I say I've skied as much as 30 different areas in one season (my record, measly to the Euros, is 37). Or scroll down...

Yes, that's easy to do in the Alps. It's not a big deal to go west from Zurich if that's where the snow is, just as we drove east from Geneva in 2018 and 2019. It's not so easy in vast western North America, but this guy has 2 months. This year he would have been better off starting in the...

If the guides think it's unsafe to ski at all, I would expect you would get a refund. Now you need to work out that pit stop in Verbier!

China Peak and Dodge Ridge are areas I have ignored. Even though they are in California, they and Bear Valley are not accessible from Tahoe and involve two hour one-way drives from the Central Valley. When corporate ski areas shut down March 15, 2020 I headed for these still open areas, also...

With two months and a rental car, why on earth did he go through the Southwest and Colorado instead of up to Canada? I guess he had a family commitment to be in Santa Fe over New Year's Eve. At least he dumped SoCal from his plans! Yes, I like his commentary and pictures and will review in...

Anyone who ever skied Sierra-at-Tahoe before the Caldor Fire must be amazed by how wide open the ski terrain is now in tseeb's pics.

I'm surprised to see any snow on the ground in January at that altitude/latitude. Spencer's Creek snow measuring site at 1,830 meters had zero snowpack since mid-November.

Me too. But I'm sure James would rather see the Queyras and Maritimes get it as they did over Christmas. :icon-lol:

And rent the fattest skis you can get your hands on!

The lodge is at 5,700 and alpine terrain goes up to 8,000. You are in the situation that occurred during much of 2014-15. If the weather is clear enough to ski the alpine as I did in 2015, you will be OK. Many 2015 tours that were confined by weather/visibility below tree line sucked though.

I agree those suck.

And we think OpenSnow models are optimistic! They show a bit over half what that WePowder map shows, still promising! Those are weekend dates, so yes I would expect them to fill up fast. Drive distance for Geneva weekenders is not far. Verbier is about an hour from Chamonix. Both Liz...

Good call. This storm is so warm it is forecast even to rain halfway up Panorama and Kicking Horse. Those areas got lots of December snow when it was raining more west of Rogers Pass.

California precipitation is far above average. However, snowfall is above average only above 9,000 feet.

Of course you don't need an Ischgl/Mammoth scale area to teach kids or progress your skiing. That was not my point. How much would "he and his kids" have liked Camelback in pouring rain or on a sheet of ice? Presumably these people were day trippers and would not have been there in such a...