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I'm looking for some advice on which locations in Utah would be good for me and my family from April 11 to 13, 2020. I have the Ikon base pass. Wife doesn't have the Ikon pass and I'm open to buying tickets. The snow in Tahoe was sticky in April and I fell down a couple of times or found it...

This is an amazing analysis.

Interesting. I think the important thing that we don't know is if this temperature rise will accelerate. We could have a runaway effect and could be in trouble in a lot of different ways we cannot imagine yet. And we are only speculating about how the quantity of precipitation will change. It...

One interesting number in the article is $3000 to $15000 per acre-foot of man-made snow. Vail must have made some calculation around how the terrible Christmas 2017 affected ticket sales, lodging bookings and other service revenue. Perhaps it created enough of a drop in revenue to justify the...

Thanks, Tony. That page is fantastic. Similar to your family ski trip page. I bought the book for Austria. Austria/Switzerland is probably easier for English speakers so I left out the book on France. A different author has published one for Switzerland...

Great information. Thanks, Tony and James for sharing. One would never know about this stuff based on articles written in ski publications. While I have your attention, is there a book or data source for EU/Latin America similar to Tony's write-up and data for N. America? I have checked...

Zermatt is a nice benefit of Ikon. It's nice that it's available on the base Ikon as well compared to full Epic pass for Europe locations. The savings on lift tickets will probably be eaten up by the high cost of lodging in Switzerland. My preliminary search shows that Zermatt doesn't get much...

Thanks, Tony. The correlations are very helpful. The chart below shows the combined Nov-Dec snowfall during years when Alpine Meadows has < 70". The chances of that happening are one out of three. Dots above the black line mean they had more than 70" in years when Alpine had < 70". I have...

This question is more for Tony than anybody else but I think the discussion would be of interest to a lot of people. I'm curious which locations in the US have early season snow fall that's not correlated to snow fall in the Sierras. In other words, if the Sierras are having a bad snow year...

Amazing to ski two areas so far apart in a single day. I might make it to Heavenly for the closing weekend. It sounds like I will only get a good 3 hours of skiing each day in the morning.

Every area in the US claims to be family-friendly. I think family-friendly is a catchall. If they have lodging: it's family-friendly; it doesn't matter if it's expensive. If they have beginner terrain: it's family-friendly; if they have low priced tickets: family friendly. Low crowds...

I just bought an Ikon base. I also bought Mt. Rose unrestricted. I really like their private lesson discount and given where I am with my ski skills, taking those lessons would be beneficial to me. They also have enough beginner terrain to practice drills. It was not possible to do drills at...

Did you end up buying Sierra at Tahoe pass as well? How are the crowds there vs. Heavenly and Kirkwood?

I didn't take advantage of that sale. I used Southwest points to fly to RNO, SLC and DEN this season.

The elevation is also a problem for Telluride trip. I will do a 10 day trip, with limited activity on first few days. I had trouble in Keystone and then I started drinking a lot of water on my other trips to Beaver Creek and Park City. I do have difficulty sleeping first couple of nights. My...

Everything about Telluride is perfect until you start planning a trip. I tried this year as I have the full Epic pass. Flying is very expensive into MTJ and it's a long drive from closest major airport served by Southwest: ABQ. United has a flight from SFO to MTJ that I had set up an alert for...

Spectacular scenery. No wonder many consider Telluride one of the top resorts in USA. I also enjoyed reading this blog: https://skinorthamerica100.com/telluride-colorado/ I hope to make it to Telluride in a few years when I get the Epic pass again. Visit Sun Valley, Telluride. The lodging...

Zrankings content was free for me. Sorry, I should not be complaining about it. I do love some of the write ups he has. It's good to know what perspective he has. Yes. I think it would help if areas were tagged. Good for these type of people (beginners, intermediates, experts) and not good for...

yeah, Zrankings content is not written for people who are budget constrained. Only the 1% can afford to stay in ski in ski out lodging at the list of places on the Zrankings list. I had to take a shuttle at Beaver Creek as well so I wouldn't mind taking the shuttle at Bachelor. People like me...

For whatever reason (maybe lodging), Mt. Bachelor does not show up on Zrankings beginner or family list. https://www.zrankings.com/best-ski-resorts-for-families https://www.zrankings.com/articles/best ... ers-top-10 I have now visited the top four on the family list and I'm afraid to say, only...