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Snowbird has a good base. See the recent TRs. The bad scenario is cooler weather with no new snow, which was last Tuesday/Wednesday and this past weekend. The sunny days have good spring skiing, which unfortunately means starting around 11AM thanks to the time change and Utah's far west...

Max rain/snow line this week at the Banff areas is 2000 meters, and it will be below the base of the ski areas starting Saturday. Is there any place you would rather ski in western North America the last week of March this season? I can't think of one.

I'd play it by ear and make a last minute call within the reliable weather forecasting window of 5 days or so. There is little margin for error in a season like this. You need a sunny week with Summit open, especially since Northwest is closed. But I would ask for the deferral first. This...

Pic of Fendels from Serfaus-Fiss in 2022: Maybe part of Kaunertaler is in upper left corner.

James a while back said he was able to score a full row in the back to sleep. This is very much a rarity in redeyes from LAX in my experience.

Fraser thinks there was enough snow to ski up there even before the recent storm. So it's likely we will revisit Zermatt sometime during our upcoming trip.

Yes that was an unfortunate schedule constraint. Pitztal and Stubai should have been scheduled when full days were available. I think Kaunertaler Glacier is on Indy too but I don’t know any details about that one. James has it right about the 11AM AltaBird starts after the time change and...

Any jet lag I get is usually worse coming home than going regardless of direction. Travel is usually active, which gets me into the local time faster than whatever busywork awaits me when I get home.

This week is the first where I see widespread declines in eastern trail counts. However Vermont got a decent shot of snow this weekend to arrest and possibly reverse the decline.

Another rare sign of this season is the number of western areas with less terrain open March 15 than on Feb. 28. These include: Big Sky Jackson Snowbasin Park City Steamboat Aspen/Snowmass Monarch Purgatory Taos A week from now I suspect we will see an acceleration of this trend. On a...

My record solo drive was 13+ hours from Lake of the Ozarks, MO to Auburn, AL, 740 miles, but included 4 Tesla charge stops totaling about 90 minutes plus an hour at the New Madrid Earthquake Museum. On my just completed 5-week 4,186 mile road trip the max drive in one day was 550 miles. James...

I believe my record solo was 13+ hours and 740 miles in June 2020 from Lake of the Ozarks, MO to Auburn, AL. However those hours included 4 Tesla charge stops totaling about 90 minutes plus an hour at the New Madrid Earthquake Museum. Today is the last day of what will be about 4,200 miles...

I have a few belated pictures. Devil's Castle was the only part of Alta not to open for Saturday's powderfest, shown here about 10:15AM. Former admin as we exit Sugarloaf chair: Note part of large line of skiers waiting for Devil's Castle to open. Afternoon view after Devil's Castle was...

That's what we saw much of the week. But it's not good on overcast days like today or last Tuesday, or days that remain cold like Wednesday or what's predicted tomorrow. Another early closure announcement, Bogus Basin March 22.

Washington State is getting the treatment this week that the Sierra got in February. Since Wednesday 40-85 inches snow, roads closed into ski areas Friday and Crystal today. Starting Sunday night rain is predicted to 8,000 feet for a few days next week.:icon-twisted: This week’s storm hit...

Liz, Stefan and I got out Friday. No day since Tuesday have any of our group gotten out before 11AM with the bulletproof conditions when sun time is 1.5 hours earlier than the daylight time that began Sunday. We got up the tram about 11:30 and skied 3 runs out past Path to Paradise, having...

The serious terrain is pretty much off limits under this season’s low tide conditions. Bridger is one of those places extremely liberal in reporting 100% of trails open. Likely the Ridge and perhaps Schlasman’s are not included in trail counts reported to SnoCountry. For any area, if you are...

iPhone weather app shows hottest day a week from today: 96 Glendale, 99 Las Vegas, 101 Death Valley, 75 Big Bear, 64 Mammoth, 61 Alta, 60 Jackson Hole.

Pajarito and Ski Apache in New Mexico are already closed and Santa Fe will close March 22. Snow Valley will close March 15. With all of next week in the 70's it will be interesting to see if any of the other SoCal areas make it past March 22. Bachelor is very limited today with 75mph winds...

I recognize Lone Tree from the first pic above, definitely narrower and more sporting than in most seasons. I'm a bit surprised the Strawberry gondola was running to access it, as the base of Strawberry is low, very sunny and can't have much of a snowpack in a year like this. I note that the...