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Steamboat's awesome, with great snow, even tho it largely faces west, glades and bumps galore, but a few tempting flats near the top (that'll make you wish you had a set of poles and one more board), the teensy backside of Morningside park, and the flats below the steep chutes of Chrismas Tree...

Mike, here's a couple of ideas for Summit county. there's definitely a huge premium for staying ski-in ski-out, but you're going to hit several areas, that'll be wasted. Frisco is the most centrally located, 15 min to Copper or Breck, 15 more to Keystone, Vail, and another 5 to either A-basin...

The storm that was forecast to dump a foot or two of fresh on the San Juans flaked out and left behind only 5" -but that's as much as fell anywhere else in CO this week (in our driving range) we decided to venture South to Telluride. The official report was 50" on top, 49" mid mt, /PP. After...

I think jfslenes has grieviously twisted the entire purpose of FirstTracks. Sounds like he wants me to ski at Taos, even though the snow sucks. I've skiied there enough times in my life when the snow sucked, but it was at least OPEN and we were desperate for skiing. As I've found out the hard...

Today's the day to be at Snowmass, with 10" new and blue skies. But we were there yesterday. The conditions were good but no-where near great. (41" at midway, 60 on top) the extremely firmly packed groomers had some gravelly areas peeking thru, and there's not enough base yet for good skiing in...

Sounds like you need to get to Winter Park, Copper Mtn, Breckenridge, or Keystone. All are close enough to Denver to have some weekend crowds, but they all have extremely good snow right now. Hopping over one more pass gets you to Vail or Beaver Creek, about 110 miles from the airport on...

One website that has good info plus some deals is http://www.skisaltlake.com/ Last year we stayed in SLC and booked last-minute rooms at Hotwire.com, you can select the neighborhood (sandy or downtown, and the hotel class - of lack thereof) we picked the 4-star option and got the Hilton...

Our visit to Steamboat Springs this past weekend helped remind me why it's such a great place to be (and ski) We found an el cheapo deal thru central rez on lifts and lodging, in an older motel (but clean and quiet, with a hot tub - Nordic Lodge) downtown, which included skiing Friday afternoon...

Hey Chris Curious, My first response to a question like that is: NO! it can only make the skiing worse! More people, more tracks, etc. The access to the goods is much improved, but making it easier for me could make the terrain more popular, crowded, tracked, chopping up those beautiful soft...

Two main attractions at Highlands today, first to check out how my newly re-treaded knee ( you could say re-threaded) behaves in the bumps, and to check out the new "Deep Temerity" lift adjacent to Highlands Bowl. The snow report was 2" new on top of 21" in the past week, with a 68" summit...

Yeah, those avalanche beacons are expensive, but have you priced funerals lately? Here's a story from our local paper, about our local hill (oops, Mesa) and one that didn't get away. Man, 27, killed in Grand Mesa avalanche Grand Junction Daily Sentinel http://www.gjsentinel.com Sunday...

Finally, the first true spring skiing since January! Oh that spring corn is so very very nice, plus we got to sleep in, too! After starting off with some early groomers on the front side, the East facing aspects of the Back Bowls turned soft and smooth. As the day wore on, we followed the sun...

Wow, I'd forgotton about that book, which I read a few years ago, and then somehow forgot about. It's Deep Powder Snow: Forty years of Ecstatic Skiing, Avalanches, and Earth Wisdom, by Dolores LaChappelle. She is getting way up there in years, but if she's still out there skiing, it's in...

BC received about 7" of new snow this week, on top of a good base, and the morning sun promised to yield to a bit of fresh by the end of the day. We started off riding up the two snazzy new access quads, which deposited us at at the top of Strawberry Park for a warm-up cruise on sone fresh...

hmmm, for a quick summer-ski trip west, both Mammoth (you could fly into Vegas cheap) or Reno-Tahoe (for Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows, maybe Kirkwood) would be tempting-- I was up at A-basin yesterday, and the snow on the Pali chair was repotedly sketchy- especially for this time of year. The...

The latest SKI magazine (Feb. '05) has several great article on finding the soul of skiing (and what exactly, is that?) Is it skiing at areas (not resorts?) where character counts more than real estate? The articles are Not available online at their website. Ironic that I get this magazine...

Oops, sorry Marc! Yes I was inadvertently referring to that 90's era printed ski -tip-sheet which was best at unbiased gear testing. I'm sure my dad still has a couple of big blue gov't surplus binders of many years of back issues-- Just in case he needs to re-review the Salomon F9...

Inside tracks is by far the best I've found! Now, how did I ever ever find it? no idea. the only others I've found worthwhile are: Telemarktips.com A great site, with forums and news and gear reviews. Powderbuzz.com A Colorado- based site, mostly focused on backcountry, and linked to...

I just wrote a nice post, and added a picture from Jan. 20th- 6 days after the slide-- but it was thrown into cyberspace 'cause my photo file was too big- even tho I'd shrunken it down to 3 snowflakes in the center of the slide. It was huge and scary to look at-- but what was scary and puzzling...

Brighton, Wednesday, Jan 19 The Canyons, Thursday, Jan 20 Snowbird, Friday, Jan. 21 It was time to linger over huge breakfasts, straggle to the lift after 10:00, then follow the sun until 4:00 all three days. Brighton was a blast cruising the rolling, curving groomers until the snow softened...