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Isn’t Sandpoint in Idaho? 😉 I only crossed into ID to buy gas but was only 30 miles W of Sandpoint. I went N from there and I didn’t have much snow but was concerned about slick road driving along river for miles in the dark. If I’d left CA much later I could have run into closed I-5 and/or...

Mt Bachelor February 18, 2026 On Tuesday I mostly skied first but also drove 520 miles; 23 from $49 Bend Motel to Bachelor, then 497 from Bachelor to Metaline, WA where I’m waiting for 8 AM opening of Nelway border crossing to get to Whitewater. I had a nice drive along the Columbia River, then...

Hoping I don’t get screwed again on 3 week and 3 day ski trip where I plan to ski every day. It did not start well. Our dog woke me up and I let her out once before and once after midnight. I’d gone to bed early as I was planning to get up at 230 but couldn’t get back to sleep so got up and was...

I’m driving to Mustang so I can bring multiple pairs on trip. High 90-width would not be appropriate for Mustang. But I’m thinking that instead of 116x188 Rossi Super 7s that have a lot of rocker and 11 year-old Salomons with one brake that doesn’t always open that I’ve used on my 6 previous...

Heavenly, CA and NV February 12, 2026 One day before the 49-month anniversary of track-mounted binding problem that caused my wife’s very serious head injury, I had something similar happen with Tyrolia demo bindings on DPS skis I'd bought from SkiTalk. I loaded Gunbarrel chair early & was...

Adding a couple of photos of Tony Crocker taken before 945. This was our first or second time going under slow but efficient Nob Hill chair that we rode a couple of times skiing from steeper Lower Main towards not running Rock Garden chair.

Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA Febuary 11, 2026 Sierra reported 8" new vs. 7 at Kirkwood and 6 at Heavenly. We loaded Grandview chair before 9 and skied Castle but found very hard surface underneath the new snow on nearly all turns, especially on W-facing lower. N-facing Lower Main and Nob Hill were...

Heavenly, CA and NV February 10, 2026 We could have both skied for free at Sierra-at-Tahoe but @Tony Crocker wanted the higher altitude of Heavenly so we drove the 1 mile to CA base. We parked closed to ticket office and bottom of Gunbarrel chair that we loaded not much after 9. He bought a...

Kirkwood, CA February 9, 2026 After watching most of the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, CA (from my wife's son's house Levi's Stadium where I worked for a few years in retirement - the flyover), I left home after 7 on Monday and after a few stops got on lift at Kirkwood at 11:30. I took a couple of...

Skied Kirkwood today 1130-330. Very firm in most places. High in upper 30s and windy. You wanted to make turns where snow had been deposited vs. where it had been scraped off. I dropped my rock skis that had some damage from 4 December days at Mammoth for tune-up afterward. Only almost lost it...

Your slide on Monument had much better ending than unfortunate one on Drop Out 2 on the same day. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/skier-dies-expert-run-mammoth-213307189.html

My wife and I plan to be there that week for SkiTalk Gathering. We arrive YYC after 6 PM on March 22 have rental car and are staying at Banff Aspen Lodge. Our flight home is on March 28 just before 7 PM.

Found on SnowBrains while looking for something else: Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed After Skier Dies in Avalanche During Mount Bailey, OR, Cat-Skiing Trip A lawsuit was filed last Friday in Deschutes County Circuit Court and seeks over $14.5 million in damages for the death of Brian Thomas...

From Snowbrains which I always take with some skepticism: "Utah’s snowpack has fallen to its lowest levels on record for this point in the season, with nearly half of the state’s monitoring sites now reporting all-time lows, according to data shared by KSL News. As of February 1, 67 of Utah’s...

Even though I've been retired for 15 years, I still have some responsibilities at home with elderly dog and mother and try to limit days I'm away, so I usually don't use your "Madrid or Barcelona, and then just use discount airlines" and "Give a few hours or overnight. Then a cheap ticket...

Heavenly, NV and CA Saturday January 24, 2026 I think Heavenly was the only place with unpredicted new snow. Snowline was ~8K and it was only ~0.5 inch, maybe a little deeper in Milky Way Bowl and on the right side of Big Dipper along trees that blocked the Evil East Wind. But it came after...

I don't have as complete records as @Tony Crocker but probably didn't have 40K+ days before I started tracking in 2003-04. I have the following: Bachelor 2/18/15 45.6K on my way to first time at Mustang with Shigella after spending night in SUV at Sunriver Brewing parking lot Heavenly 4/5/17 41K...

This column was written before people working for our president killed another American in Minneapolis and then lied about it again.

Friday, January 23, 2026 We didn't start until 910 as it took a while to get my son up, then he had to pack as he quit skiing and left to return home after about 4 hours. He made breakfast burritos with leftover from night before carne picada and scrambled eggs. And he took a two-mile so he...

Would also like to hear how new ownership is doing since I will be there for my 7th time in less than a month. Any changes? Better/worse in any areas?