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T-shirt weather from that last pic?

I did not know that. Portes du Soleil has far more interesting skiing. Liz' summation of SkiWelt as 5x (Killington+Sugarbush) remains accurate from this TR IMHO. Yes, Liz and I skied 60K vertical in our 2 days at SkiWelt, part of my 6-day record of 184,900. But we probably had better snow...

Liz and I left Moonlight soon after its liftline grew to 10 minutes. We stuck to cruisers as Friday is going to be obviously much better. So I toured Liz to the areas we didn't ski Wednesday: Elk Park Ridge to Thunder Wolf, the Deep South boundary to Yellowstone Club property and the Lewis...

Liz and I arrived at Big Sky at least 1.5 hours after Tseeb. We had to wait for a freight train in Bozeman and a one lane section on Hwy 191. Liz also didn't bring her Ikon pass and had to get a new one at the ticket office. Big Sky was conspicuously low tide vs. my three prior visits in...

It’s a dog didn’t bark situation. Saddam was very dangerous, had already attacked two of his neighbors and used WMDs on Iran and the Kurds. It’s pure speculation what he would have done if left in place, but invading Syria when its civil war started in 2011 is a fairly safe bet. Incorrect. ISIS...

Most of them, yes. I have more, but I'd rather wait until I have explored all of WST's links thoroughly.

Detail article in Feb. 28 NY Times as told by two survivors. @jamesdeluxe, please unlock this.

James has been recommending half board hotels including dinners in the Alps for well over a decade. That’s what we did in the Jungfrau (Wengen) in 2024, and nearly everywhere we skied in Austria in 2017 and 2022. If traveling not in a car as JimK did in Europe, you are constrained to hotels and...

Tseeb took a much needed break today as I had Monday when Liz flew to Bozeman. We skied Bridger Tuesday in more cooperative sunny weather than Tseeb got Monday. The clearing weather also meant clear skies for the 4:30AM lunar eclipse. Bridger was in full-on spring mode, so our 10:30AM...

Yes, Peter Landsman is referenced in Worldskitraveller's home page, along with Jimmy Petterson, Arnie Wilson and Stuart Winchester. FYI I'm ahead of Stuart in ski area count (292 as of Sunday), though I'm sure not for long given his mission and our ages. I have also skied 7 continents.

I very much appreciate the detailed response from Worldskitraveller. He may not know that Jimmy Petterson and I have connected over the past four years as rabid Dodger baseball fans as well as skiers. He returns to SoCal (where he grew up) mid-September every year and stays to the end of the...

It's fairly clear to me that many Iranians, perhaps including some high placed ones, hate that government. Some people are consistently feeding valuable info to CIA and Mossad about key officials' whereabouts.

Clearly safest bet in US for that time frame and later this spring. LCC would be a close second with more powder upside. Only as a last minute call. The Northeast run of exceptional conditions is forecast to end with rain later this week. It doesn't matter in Vermont how great the season...

Showdown's lifts are rounding errors. Maverick wins Montana's :bs: award by claiming 2,000 vertical when the real number is 1,500. On second thought I should retract that above statement in favor of Big Sky's 400 inch snowfall claim, a number it has never achieved in 39 years of recording its...

Tseeb and I stayed Saturday night in Great Falls. The shortest drive from there to Bozeman is via Hwy89 which goes over a 6,900 foot pass where Showdown ski area is located. There was almost no traffic on the drive though the parking lot was about half full when we arrived around 10AM. It...

Steeper lines on Great Western have SW exposure. You'll need the same level of dump as in Mineral Basin to avoid a coral reef subsurface on powder days.

Saturday as expected the weather cleared and in the morning there was zero wind even at the top of Red chair. We got there early but it was busy and here was the parking lot attendant directing traffic. Both the original T-bar and the pizza restaurant are named T-Rex. There was an inch of...

For the third consecutive day, wind impacted lift operations. At Castle that is a very big deal. On the main mountain a closed Red chair loses almost as high a proportion of accessible terrain as losing Marte at Las Lenas does. Fortunately this year Castle has a new chair, Stagecoach, that...

This caught my eye from James' link. Perhaps the relative value proposition is starting to dawn upon the general population of American skiers.

Chatter's Pro photographer produced a 2GB mp4 file. I do not have the time or patience to edit video, but I screenshotted a few pics of me skiing.