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I agree with ChrisC not James on this issue. If you live in a region where 1/4 of lifts have no bar and it was more like 3/4 when you grew up, there will be no culture even suggesting mandatory use unless aggressively implemented by the resorts or the state. And it’s the mom and pop joints in...

Adam and I climbed Mt. Whitney Labor Day 1999 in two days using Trail Camp at 12,000. The people using the camp at 10,300 generally take 3 days. Hauling full camping gear from 10K-12K was more strenuous than summiting with a light day pack. Both were a walk in the park vs. climbing Shasta to...

California and the Cottonwoods get a total reset this week. It will be interesting to see if it's enough to get the rest of Utah to full operation.

Kicking Horse was busy today too. I've skied KH the Tuesday after President's/Family weekend maybe 5x (timing of Mustang tours) and never seen it like this before.

Worldskitraveller is wimpy compared to Tseeb. Worldskitraveller is riding maybe 10 chairs per day and doing more driving than skiing. Tseeb averages well over 20K per day with an objective of missing no ski days no matter how far apart the ski areas are. Tseeb is the only retiree I know who...

Margaret’s GPS at 18,500 today.

Even in my younger days I would not remotely consider getting up at 2AM, drive 522 miles and ski that same afternoon. Is there a masochism emoji? I was not pleased that my legs were still tired Sunday after the 550 mile drive day Saturday. Today will be a very short day at Kicking Horse if I...

Average speed in the rain on mostly freeway to Coeur d'Alene was close to 70. Coeur d'Alene to Sandpoint has a lot of stoplights. So average speed north of Coeur d'Alene had to be something like 45. The Cayenne excludes time stopped in calculating average speed. Its trip computer on a day...

On Saturday I drove 550 miles from Reno to Donnelly, Idaho. The rural Nevada part of that drive was quite efficient. View of Tamarack ski area just before sunset: I got on the hill at Brundage about 9:15. It snowed off and on but only about an inch total. The top was in fog most of the day...

A week ago was probably the overall low, but Feb. 14 was lower than Jan. 31. Modest snowfalls hit Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming the first week of February and California, Utah and Colorado the second week. But these storms totaled less than half normal for first half of February. Here's an...

10 minutes ago I got an e-mail from Monashee Powder, where I’ve been on a waitlist for awhile. I called them a month ago emphasizing that I had some flexibility to grab a cancellation this month. They offered skiing Feb. 20-22 for $3568.80CDN. Feb. 20 is my last day at Chatter Creek and Feb...

I’ve done one trek with an army of porters, the Inca Trail in 2007. The Quechua porters were short in stature but tough as nails. 3 of them tag teamed carrying 200+ pound Andrew for about an hour on the third day, which was fortunately not uphill. That was Andrew’s problem on day two...

The cause of death was a heart attack in James’ link above! My pack situation is like the no helmet related to my poor temperature regulation. I nearly always carry alternative gloves and mid layer, and usually both glasses and googles.

Our friend Margaret from our Iron Blosam group is with Liz this week and carrying a GPS tracker so we can tell where they are. The screenshot below shows them at 13,000 feet but the steep final ascent trail is the dotted line going SW from their location this morning (here, means evening there...

In 2003 and 2004 I was cat skiing at Island Lake a week after a Pineapple Express but fortunately it snowed enough before I arrived. This year they were skiing groomers there for 2 weeks after the Jan. 13-14 widespread rain. areas are still bad now, which is why I’m skipping them. You can be...

I e-mailed Mt. Rose about The Chutes. Policy is that website shows them closed except during hours they are actually open. This means if you check in the evening or early morning before lifts open, they will show being closed. This misled me on my Jan. 31 snow report which I will correct.

On Friday at Mt. Rose we were also joined by Paul from San Jose who has a place in Incline Village. As forecast Friday was sunny except for this odd cloud that covered the bottom quarter of the Slide Mt. side at noon. This was a fast morning of groomers all in excellent condition, starting...

I stayed with Bob and Pat in Reno for two nights, skiing Palisades Thursday and Mt. Rose Friday. They also have a home in Big Bear and Liz and I skied with them there first in Jan. 2021 and then here at Mt. Rose in Feb. 2022. Bob and Pat fit the Jimk profile of retirees, typically skiing 3...

10 day deterministic is now 49 at Alta, 29 at Park City, fairly typical ratio. :eusa-dance::eusa-clap::eusa-dance: I grabbed that deal today. I was probably driving into Canada on the 16th anyway because everything between here (Reno) and there is so crappy. This is a year Chatter Creek rates...

43 inches in next 10 days from deterministic forecast.