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Not as interesting as those major resort closures, but I heard that Eldora is proactively shutting down several trails and going to be pushing the snow down into the base area just to keep operating and that almost the entire front side of the hill is almost un-skiable due to rocks. Cooler air...

Powderhorn, Ski Cooper and Buttermilk are also all closed at this point in Colorado too. Silverton closes this coming weekend, hard to keep up with all the closures at this point. Eldora is melting very fast now based on reports I've been getting past couple of days. Not sure if they will make...

Officially no, unofficially yes. No idea how the official temp yesterday was only 85, it was above that both at my house and on my car temp for the entire afternoon, hitting exactly 90F for a couple hours yesterday. Though 85 is the new record high temp ever for the month of March, so there...

It's pretty amazing how different that different people can be for jetlag. I'm not sure if it is due to my extensive and complex business travel over a lot of years but I don't really even notice time changes domestically (of course that's a max of two hour time change headed east for me)...

That is very unusual. Most people do much worse headed eastbound than westbound and that is even true for continental US travel.

Like most of us I presume, I get plenty of marketing emails from ski places I have been to in the past 10-ish years or so. I typically feed them to a secondary folder then delete virtually all of them pretty quickly. But in this instance I saw a headline of closing for an Eagle Point, UT email...

Being entirely unfamiliar with the backcountry off Sea to Sky Gondola I looked on Google Earth and that looks like a fairly hefty slog over to Ledge Mountain area from the top of the Gondola. At least for a day trip. Is it nearly all on-snow trekking right now? (I assume so given the suspension...

The really crazy part of this winter has been the warmth. Current forecast for next week includes temps at least into the mid to potentially upper 80's in Denver area. Those are June temps, not March temps. The current record for March is 84 degrees.

That's a pretty wide range in annual fees listed by AI. Implies anywhere from a $44M to $68M annual budget to run the place, ignoring any initiation fees collected (also assuming that there are no material additional fees collected anywhere for food, golf, etc...). One question that I have is...

I'm still trying to figure out why former Admin likes puke green helmets. But great to see his visage on the boards. If I had not not had my MI a few months ago I would be heading over to Utah ~tomorrow for my annual guys trip. Interestingly also the same week that Tseeb and Tony/Liz are there...

Well, I am not much of a contributor this year for TR's. I did go to altitude and hang in the base area for the first time since my MI in early December. Have to be very conscious of my heart rate while making the ~40 vert climb from the parking lot (eg go slower than I used to for now). Eldora...

The Wall Street Journal weighs in: https://archive.is/Z7AoM Very interesting that the comments are almost all pro-Chuck. Of course they have never met or interacted with the guy so really have no basis for pro or con.

Well, Eldora finally got a double digit snowfall this season. Pic below from just now before they clear it for the day. So the 3" on todays report is part of what is on the stake. Top of the gray curve you can barely see is roughly 18" tall. Not that everyone and their brother won't be hitting...

Big Sky is certainly big enough to keep you entertained for a day even with a lot of top terrain/lifts closed. That said, pretty disappointing in March have so many top lifts not open for skiing (tram, headwaters, etc...)

For me the mind blowing part of this story is that a significant resort had an in-bounds avalanche big enough to bury someone under several feet of snow for several hours and apparently not a single person noticed - neither pubic nor patrol or etc... The wife (who was sitting at home in Bothell)...

Interesting; LiftBlog has that lift listed at 1332 Vertical. And the Payload lift at 1025.

Big YIKES on those pics of snow coverage though...

That cornice above the cat track/run looks very dangerous. I would be questioning the guides before skiing under that thing. Otherwise looks like some great terrain.

My take is that Mustang terrain is generally tough enough that people who are only strong intermediates or weekend warriors will more easily/quickly recognize they need a break. Not sure of others thoughts on that. But I have rarely seen breaks taken in other cat groups I've done previously. And...

Looks like a good effort. Were you in/out of Alta? Or entirely backcountry uphill?