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I have a few plans but also a lot that is still uncertain. I have 2 Mustang trips lined up this year: One in January and one in February. So that should be interesting; to double my odds of either epic skiing or blowing though tons of $$ (crosses fingers and hopes for the former). Should...

What are the blue suitcase icons? The math on that is insane of course. 50% off will help slightly at the margins I would think, but not be a game changer. The only possible significant upside to the changes I saw was for the fence sitters. They can now ski a couple days at "50% off" AND also...

Depends on the trip. When Castle has the goods, you’ll gladly choose to drive over the pass a 2nd or 3rd time no matter where you are staying. Though not a lot of great food options in Pincher Creek that I've found thus far.

Ditto. Unclear, but I would think winds in the area hit all of the peaks in that range. Maybe they get even less traffic with more typical skiers wanting to hit a detach quad and not two old lifts? I actually kinda hope so. Love the S chutes and the lookers right upper pitch/ridge on the...

Not necessarily a shape I want. Just that biological systems rarely behave linearly. I figured it would show either that AMS symptoms in the population either increase rapidly (Steep at first, then flatter); or that it would show low incidence until 14K or so feet then steep curve. Didn't know...

That is surprisingly linear. I would have expected biology/physiology to be a bit less linear.

I had some very good friends of my family have to move from Breck (house at exactly 10K feet) because one of them couldn't get good sleep anymore. This was as they aged (into mid-70's). They are now in their 80's and living in Red Lodge, MT at under 6K feet.

I think that almost every "industrial" ski area has at least some terrain that is either modestly crowded or less (might be a few exceptions, but not a ton at big mountains). I view the term as more related to the experience than pure infrastructure attributes. Just because I can hike or...

Not everyone is affected by it. But a decent enough sized portion of the population is that it needs to be taken into consideration if you are running group trips. I might breathe much harder than normal at altitude if I'm out of shape, but no altitude sickness. Others I've hiked with have had...

I've been to Canada far less than Tony, but have only had one really cold snap up there so far. I skied? (more like endured) temps as cold as -29C at Marmot Basin. With truly cold temps on 3 of 6 days of skiing in Alberta on that trip in early March 2012. Plenty of standard cold days in...

can be interesting and is super close to town, but generally is much firmer and less snow than either LL or Sunshine. Plenty of decent enough eating places in Banff; the only one that really stood out to me the couple times I've been was: Waldhaus. Though I'm sure there are some other decent...

Cannot resist linking this video whenever Aussie Emu's are referenced!

From what I've heard, wouldn't a lot of 'lads' be trying to hit the kangaroos? I've heard those beasts can be kinda obnoxious to deal with. Or is that more myth than reality in dealing with Kangaroos?

The road is also nearly entirely in the bottom of a 'canyon'/creek drainage so almost no exposure to drop offs, cliffs, etc... So more narrower valley but more LCC or BCC-ish with risk being slipping into other traffic at 30-40 mph. Or maybe I'm just used to Eldora Shelf Road, Loveland and...

There is one problem in that sentence. Democrats still have no idea how and I'm pretty sure simply don't want anything resembling Orderly when it comes to immigration. And of course Trump/current republicans want nothing to do with anything resembling Humane or Comprehensive when it comes to...

Building true real world infrastructure is not even in the ballpark of building some software and maybe an anonymous data center in an industrial area. He thinks very highly of himself though just like the 20 somethings that had bought Powder Mtn before selling to Reid Hoffman after much failed...

Wait, an English professor is pretending to be definitive about weather/science attributions to fires? And claiming to know the science of toxins in the air, soils, etc... That's interesting at least and more potentially a big red flag. Especially for the NYT. I thought they were all about only...

I also am glad to be done with Disney. I took my son to each of the parks about 4 years a part, the 2nd one being World in fall of 2019. Of course that only happened because my wife had a conference at one of the Disney hotels so her plane ride and the room were free as it were. That made the...

?? It's less than 2/3 of a mile to the lake edge from the lift. That's quite short in the scheme of pipelines. But it sounds like they have no water rights for any water that is in the lake and thus have to pump it from a well. Many ski areas have much, much longer pipelines to their water...

Their insurance might try to help some, but it's unrealistic for the most part. You have an entire cities worth of infrastructure scattered all across the mountain in typically rather rugged terrain. It's far too much to try to protect the whole place with a small crew which is what insurance...