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I'm curious based on that pic what % of snowboard vs skiers you are finding in Japan. (looking at Ryuoo trail map) I forget; Why exactly do so many Japanese ski areas list all trees as off limits/forbidden?

For reference, they explicitly make the snow on that lift to be extra wet/dense to meet the demands of the racer chasers that train on those couple of trails (tons of world cup racers train there in Oct/Nov for example). A bit of a 'user be warned' kind of scenario; especially when there has...

Well, some snow plus mostly consistently cold temps have certainly improved things somewhat. However, it is already Jan 31st and I still count 14 trail names that have snowmaking infrastructure that are still not open. I'll find out from my son later today if the snow guns are still running or...

Interestingly I just heard yesterday that WP is skiing pretty poorly (from skiers there during this past week). Winter Park side is fairly limited to repetitive trails, Mary Jane side is now open but super rocky etc.. and not worth the damage, with Panorama and Eagle Wind still entirely closed...

My brother lives near Pittsburgh with Seven Springs as his local hill. Even they are reporting 99" so far with 29" in the past 7 days. Very Good conditions reported by my brother last Sun/Mon. Although I find it kinda funny that James is in Colo while reporting on eastern conditions.

At this point I would think Peter from Lift Blog would be a great resource as he has claimed to ride or at least visit/walk the line for every functioning lift in at least the US and Canada. That includes some non-ski area lifts too of course (state fairs, wineries, etc...). So i would expect...

Should we assume United in this equation to DEN?

Never seen such an email with tons of available slots from Mustang before. People ditching due weather? Lots of guys aging out all at the same time? Pushed on prices too much and this is the result? A bit of each? My brother booked a different remote style operation recently (heli in/out)...

Loveland and ABasin are doing especially badly this season. I would agree the primary motivation would be to say you were there during their worst ever ski seasons. If you had the time, Monarch is like 80% open last I knew with ~a foot last weekend.

Still going to be a very wintery game out here in Denver. Forecast is for temps in the mid-teens at the 1pm game time with ~1-3 inches of snow starting to fall by ~2nd half of the game. Though as we all know, the exact timing of snowfall by the hour is usually not too accurate a few days out.

lol. Or perhaps how not to take any trip ever? Very ironic in many ways given the week long stays at Club Med/slow travel methodology of so much of Europe compared to the typically busier US method of holidays. I haven't been and won't be looking at his online page as I lost interest in...

Current forecasts say decent storm this weekend in Colo then a whole lot of nothing for at least 10 days.

:popcorn::popcorn:

Not going to be anything big, but much of Colo seems to be on the 'right side' of the upcoming cold snap. Predicting moderate snowfalls this weekend and cold temps for a bit. Not that the underlying base is deep enough at all for much excitement, but at least not completely dry and warm for the...

Very interesting that Mark had never hiked/skinned as of last years Jan trip and now has hiked several times in the same season. Although Also true that Mark has a very short list of named runs that he has never skied before, with a couple of those being hike to only with no direct cat access...

First time I've ever heard of it happening. The guy with 120 days at Mustang referred to by Skieric told me just last year that he had never seen it occur and that no one, even the small groups wants to spend time climbing if the snow is already decent... They all want more runs not less. I...

Wow, the snow is so bad they actually have you doing some touring? Or is it more traversing in/out of areas.

Well, it took much, much longer than anyone thought, but Cuchara is officially open. Couple trails and the begginer lift on roughly 50 acres at the bottom of the mountain open for Fri-Sun operations. Surprisingly expensive $45 lift ticket, but then again it's in the middle of nowhere and...

See, I could find something like this as an interesting one time thing to do just to say you did it. Though as in this case I would not be the driver of it, just a tag along. Adding to ChrisC s thoughts this Swiss guy is certainly not a "skier". Skiers actually want to ski and also to ski good...

According to Lift Blog, people are dropping all over the place. 3 chairlift related deaths in the past week or so which seems nuts. A Teen at Cypress BC, a child at ski Apache and a 60 year old at Timberline, WV. That's a LOT of major incidents for even a full season, let a lone such a short...