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Here's the YouTube video I watched of conditions last Sunday at Heavenly.

Obviously and needless to say, it does get tougher as you get older to maintain your conditioning. I'm almost 70 and I definitely have "slowed" down. What do you do off-season for conditioning and exercising?

I just watched a video from a "ski influencer" that was shot on Sunday, March 15 at Heavenly. Looked very lean (lots of bare spots and rocks), especially down low on the mountain. I didn't realize it was that bad.

Which is? I just don't sleep well (or at all) on airplanes, even with a lie flat seat. Just too much light and ambient noise and commotion in the cabin to be able to really sleep. It's not a conducive environment for me to sleep. Maybe I could try taking a sleeping pill.

I'm flying out to Banff this Sunday. The forecast for this week is mixed. Some sites, such as OpenSnow are showing some snow for the Banff ski areas and other sites, Accuweather, are showing some rain showers with warmer temps. So who knows what it will be like next week. But plenty of base. I...

Yea, had a multi-day warm spell last week, with high temps one day in the mid-70's and mid to high 60's the other days. We had about two feet of snow on the ground prior to the warm-up (and some of it was, more or less, solid ice) and now it is 99% gone, with just a few small piles of snow left...

More snow this past week in Banff. But even next week is supposed to be in the 50's with, maybe, some rain (not sure at elevation, though). But then cooling down after that.

Yea, I taught for 5 or 6 years in the Butternut ski school (just part-time on weekends) and my daughter was in the race development program for several years and, in general, I thought they had a fairly good and professional ski school for a small, local ski area. They take teaching seriously...

I also just bought my Butternut pass good for 2026/2027 and also March of this year. I bought the "mid-week" pass (good for only mid-week, not including holidays and I paid just $149 for the pass, because I convinced them to count me as a "senior" even though I don't turn 70 until November of...

I may try Butternut one day next week, despite the very warm temps.

I'll be there too from March 23 through March 29, skiing with my daughter. Conditions still looking good and, maybe, quite a bit (over 2 feet) of new snow in the next week or so.

Frankly, I wouldn't count on the chaos subsiding in three weeks. Can you re-route the flights somewhere else to get to Europe?

Query: If you're on a ski lift when a lighting bolt hits close by, do you drop your ski pole to the ground? I'm not holding on to two lighting rods in my hands if there is lighting close by.

Apparently, both JH and Targhee closed their lifts yesterday, for a while, because of thunder and lightening in the area. How often does that happen in February in the Tetons? Crazy warm Winter out west. It will be interesting to see if they will break weather records for high temps over the...

I live in New England. We still use oil-based hot air furnace with duct work through out the house. It's an old house, built in the 1780's, so the heating system had to be added to the existing structure at some point. It's sort of crazy because there is duct work in the basement that gives the...

What a great accomplishment!

That's about $40, USD, right?

Nice, yea, my daughter are flying into Calgary too on Sunday, March 22 (around mid-day) and then staying in Banff for a week, at the Elk and Avenue Hotel on Banff Ave. We're also renting a car for the week.

No doubt, Tony, some of the best snow conditions throughout almost all of the Northeast (even where I live in southern/middle New England) in the past 10 years or so. The combination of sustained cold weather - good for snow making - and several smaller snowstorms and one large snow storm, with...

My daughter and I have now booked out Banff trip to March 22 to March 29 of this year. Looking forward to some real skiing!