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From what I have heard and read, some of the racers have complained about the snow conditions on the race courses and other racers seem to be OK with it. I believe, on many of the World Cup race courses, they "inject" water on to the courses to "firm them up" and many racers like skiing on those...

Yea, very ugly. As I mentioned previously in this thread, it looks to me that they must have done a tremendous amount of "earth moving" to create those "trails" on the mountains. It does not look like "natural terrain" to me?

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I've watched quite a bit of the Olympics (and not really proud of that fact, given the games are being held in what I consider to be a repressive and horrible communist country - I'm not sure why the International Olympic Committee would ever agree to hold...

LOL, that is from an ad that has been playing during the Olympics TV coverage (I forget what the commercial is about or the company involved) but I assume it is somehow photoshopped or otherwise computer manipulated. If not, the ad agency got a HUGE number of people to ski down that slope.

New story in last Sunday's NY Times (02/06/22) about the issues at various ski resorts resulting from the multi-area ski passes (Epic and Ikon, etc). https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/style/vail-ski-resorts-crowds.html

I skied yesterday (02/02/22) at my local "mountain". Was better than I was expecting. I had skied about 3 weeks ago and it was terrible - maybe half the trails open and very crusty and icy on the open trails. But yesterday was much better. We have had two weeks of very cold weather (many nights...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/people-really-want-to-ski-vail-is-racing-to-keep-up-11642222802 Interesting story in the Wall Street Journal about the Vail resorts.

For your sake, I hope they don't close down the borders again. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-26/covid-in-europe-you-might-have-to-trade-ski-season-for-a-summer-vacation?srnd=premium

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -says-vail Story today on Bloomberg.com about pricing for 21/22 ski passes.

I follow the publicly-traded stock of Vail Resorts (symbol: MTN) and the stock price has recently hit an all-time high (although has sold off slightly in the last week or so) and has more than doubled in price from the lows in March of 2020. I realize Vail owns ski resorts all over the country...

Ugh! Thanks for the update. Does NOT sound good. I know it has been a lean snow year in much of the Rocky Mountain west. Unfortunately, according to Weather.com, they're predicting that both February and March will be warmer and dryer across most of the country, including ski country...

I'm not a medical expert but I guess the question I would have is: how does any one region or country know, for sure, that every single person in that region or country does not have the virus? Yea, I realize you can test people but there are false negatives with some of the tests AND it seems...

JH has now opened the tram (but with limited capacity). Not sure how much of the "tram terrain" will be open right away but they are getting heavy snow today and, from the webcams (not always a good indicator, I know), it looks like, more or less, mid-Winter conditions. With Targhee almost 100%...

I looked at the web cams this morning for Jackson Hole. It seems to be the first time that there are sizeable lift lines for a couple of the lifts that leave from the base area. It's hard to tell exactly how far apart people are but it doesn't really look to me to be 6 feet (in a lot of cases)...

LOL, sorry, NOT my intention. Just linking (what I think are) relevant stories. I admit I read TOO much.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ursuits-vp More turmoil in the Alps. (Link MAY be behind a paywall for some readers. Sorry if it is).

GT has now opened all their lifts and is reporting 94 of 97 trails open - almost 100% of their skiable terrain. I'm sure there are some thin spots and sketchy areas but they may have the most open terrain of any area in the US?

[/b] Yea, I'm a big believer in wearing a helmet (and I have been doing so for at least 15 years) but there is some statistical evidence that it may not really prevent serious head injuries among the skiing population: https://www.vpr.org/post/dartmouth-hitc ... s#stream/0...

I don't know how accurate this story is ......but somewhat crazy IF true: https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-cop ... f-ski-gear

Thanks for your explanation, Tony. It certainly sounds like you have taken every precaution possible to avoid infection from Covid on the plane, airport, etc. and on the trip itself. I hope it goes well and you avoid getting sick and you have clear skies for the eclipse! Interesting story today...