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Mt. Bachelor is a good analogy to Niseko in scale and pitch but has more above tree line. The NY places look visually similar as like most Japanese ski areas, they are completely below tree line. But Bohemia and Japan are steeper than upstate NY. I measured Bohemia with the Google Earth...

Actually it's one run on each lift and move to the next!

You guys are renting extra fat skis for this, aren't you?

When the ski tracks look like body tracks, you know it's seriously deep. :drool: There's more on the way!

Sbooker is in full-on James mode. I thought that's where sbooker was yesterday because the town of Yomase is near the base of Ryuoo Snow Park. But today I notice Yomase Onsen ski area across the valley from Ryuoo. Then I notice Makinoiri Kogen on the north side of the mountain where...

The one thing 99% of avid skiers with diverse models agree on is the value of powder days. Project101 appears to be the exception. Today he duplicated his Laurentian exercise from 2019, hitting 5 areas: 2026-01-29Ragged Mountain🇺🇸 New Hampshire 2026-01-29Pat's Peak🇺🇸 New Hampshire...

Liz and I are certainly in that camp. Patrick too, within his time-of-year constraints. There are tons of skiers who like Harvey limit themselves to one or a handful of areas within drive distance of home. SoCal's population of Mammoth only skiers is one of the largest subsets of that...

Big Sky is certainly low tide with reported 29 inch base depth, but it's 83% open including maybe half the Lone Peak runs. Most people will need some Ptex after they ski up there.

I think everyone on this thread would say that. Liz summed it up best: "How to take the joy out of skiing."

Not in my case next August. The cash price for the flight home from Madrid was twice the price of the incoming to Bilbao. And how did you not pay bag fees using basic economy? The comparative fine print always mentions things like no mileage credit, no seat assignment etc. Does the credit...

There is zero chance any of the North Face/High Lift terrain will be open that soon. The skiing will be a slightly larger version of Monarch. Are you (MarzNC) still going to Big Sky? I will probably pass through there between Canada and Snowbird the first week of March. Snowave: I was...

I found some old invoices in e-mails. For my prime February dates, per day cost: first year 2013: $900CDN last year 2020: $1,450CDN, that's 7.05% per year over 7 years website 2026: $2,100CDN, that's 6.37% per year over 6 years

My greatest ever journalist score in 2012. I knew I was very lucky with conditions: 50 inches in the few days before I arrived. I would wear out fast there if conditions were not so good. But it's NE facing and likely gets 450 inches, so a good bet in Jan/Feb....most seasons.

Some hub city travelers also suffer baggage loss. :icon-evil:

They have always been the key selling point, differentiator vs. other forecast sites and the reason I subscribe. All of that data is elegantly presented, easy to navigate and equally comprehensive on mobile as on desktop. Whoever Joel's IT guy is, he understands presentation and user...

Some interesting comments yesterday: He's never at a Northeast area long enough to look into the trees. This is the conventional wisdom on Bretton Woods, and part of why I took a pass on the NASJA annual meeting there in 2008. Another place I haven't skied where the comments fit the...

Yes and no. I analogized Mt. Bohemia to Japan a long time ago. But even Bohemia (255 inches) gets only half as much snow as the optimal locations in Japan. Bohemia's peak (68 inches in January) is still less than an average month at Alta, Targhee or in the Selkirks/Monashees. Tug Hill is...

Yes, Paul was leading us on lots of east faces that skied way deeper than the 5 inches reported. Mammoth Snowman says the upper steeps at Mammoth will routinely get 1/3 more snow than is reported at the snow plot near Main Lodge.

I think you're the right track. Deep snowpacks have a subfreezing refrigerated core that water can't get through. That's how natural late season pond skims form, like Lake Reveal at A-Basin and as I skied at Mammoth in 1982 and 1991. So I say the rain can't get though that core and if heavy...

No, 13 of that was before Nov. 1.