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We daytripped Saas-Fee, used a parking garage and shuttle bus to the Alpin-Express base, spent zero time in the resort. Yes the piste footprint is surprisingly small, this despite a rare even in the Alps continuous run of 6,000 vertical. We covered everything in about 4 hours including a final...

MassLive is paywalled. Here's Stuart's Mad River story.

From our two night B&B in Agettes in the foothills south of Sion, we skied Ovrannaz Saturday, then upon departing Sunday drove an hour to Champery, the largest lodging base on the Swiss side of Portes du Soleil. There is a large parking lot, and a tram rising 2,000+ vertical to the skiing. For...

Many people believe that the more people are fooled by an April Fool’s joke, the better it is!

Niseko had one of those fore and aft facing gondolas like in James’ picture above.

10 total, 2 in Zermatt, one weather day off then 8 consecutitive: Saas Fee, Ovrannaz, 4 Portes du Soleil and 2 Grand Massif. 60K in the two Grand Massif days. Lower and sunny sectors all in spring mode today. I had to try that notorious Gere poma today. Fortunately the track was not rutted...

Today will be our last ski day. We will spend the last 4 days of the trip in Italy doing tourism. It's warming up gradually but Sunday will be in the 40's with no overnight freeze. The past week I've been skiing with a knee brace and the occasional discomfort has been manageable. The...

No question high snowfall places like Alta, Kirkwood and Wolf Creek are benefiting greatly from the current storm not only because they got more new snow but because they had more of a base left than other regional areas. I vaguely recall that Wolf Creek used to run deeper into April but...

The areas with early April closings do that because of remote location and dependence upon destination travelers who (in North America) stop skiing when it gets warm at home. Wolf Creek is an interesting case because it often gets early natural snow and can attract Front Range skiers when the...

Crested Butte and Telluride always close first weekend of April.

Is it a plug-in hybrid capable of 30-50 miles all electric? I thought BYD makes a lot of those.

Heavy is better considering what the subsurface must be.

OpenSnow documents whether its reported snow is reported from a resort or estimated. see screenshot below: Big White is labeled “reported” which means by the resort. So trust it if you think the resort is credible. Big Red Cats is labeled “estimated,” which usually means it’s based on...

Fraser claims high snowfall in both Avoriaz and Flaine, the two places we are skiing this week, and used the same rationale as ChrisC for Flaine. This afternoon we moved between the two. It was shocking to see zero snow in Morzine, including on the piste coming into town. Les Gets was thin...

I have gathered data for end of March though it may be awhile before I write it up. Front Range/I-70 Colorado is worst ever at 51% normal snowfall, unlikely to catch 2011 at 59%, despite April being a higher average snow month than other regions. Open terrain now is much lower than in 2012...

As in 2019 we are in Portes-du-Soleil to have below tree line skiing available in bad visibility. Monday morning was difficult in that regard with also some riming of goggles like Tseeb and I experienced at Big White also in 2019. Sunday on the Swiss side and late yesterday afternoon it was...

I have my doubts. The prohibitive tariffs on Chinese EVs were enacted under Biden. Legacy auto and their unions still have lots of bipartisan clout in the US.

Elon was making the best electric cars up to about 2020. Since then he's convinced that self driving cars are the only ones worth investing in. So far he's losing the bet with Waymo on that tech. Charlie Munger recommended BYD stock in 2010, a couple of years after Berkshire-Hathaway bought a...

The posts regarding this spring's conditions in Utah's Cottonwood Canyons are moved here. We have ongoing reporting from two residents plus a current visitor. It will be a useful historical reference to see how well these places held up in a generationally bad season when so many other...

:bow: The above was public info from Ski Utah. Then the resorts stopped providing it. Note that Utah reached 7+ million skier visits in 2023 so the above is sadly obsolete now. The state total is now the only number provided publicly. I'm sure I asked Nathan Rafferty back in 2007 when the...