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It seems the Bear Mt. incident was a stunt by some Darwin award candidates.

The Kachina lift opened Feb. 26 per skitaos Instagram, very surprising with the modest 35 inch base. On a related subject, the North Face of Crested Butte remains closed.

I was in goggles at Chatter Creek due to temperatures than never topped 7F. Any increased google use this year is due to decreased ability to discern surface details in flat light. That situation applied this Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

As noted in the other thread, I arrived at Island Lake after a warm weekend. But fortunately it snowed 6 inches of dense snow overnight. The outgoing flurries early Monday morning at the lodge during the transceiver drill were barely snow at all. This storm and Monday’s overcast worked to our...

Sublimation: when snow evaporates without going through the liquid stage. Low humidity is essential and a light breeze might help. Stronger winds would likely stiffen the rain crust. I saw this at Island Lake in 2003. There was a low elevation rain crust that was about 100 feet lower...

The past two days have been tough for wind closures of lifts in this region. Tseeb had it worse than I did at both Kicking Horse and Panorama. At Fernie the restriction was not upper vs. lower but new side vs. old side. Yes the new side goes higher, thus more wind exposure, but the old side...

I've only experienced thunder lift shutdowns once at Vail in early April and a couple of times late May at Mammoth.

Sorry, James, I think it would be extremely illuminating to find out when, where and how he skis on his own turf in the Alps. I concede the point that he had an extremely rigid plan on the U.S trip and would not deviate come hell or high water, and further inquires about this specific trip...

I agree. They are lift not ski connected, like Arosa - Lenzerheide or Les Arcs - La Plagne. In my and many cases it's a moot point because we skied both of them before they were connected.

Excellent point by jimk, and likely an underlying source of our negative reactions. It would be like having Patrick ski every June-October month at Big Snow New Jersey. Would his streak mean anything in that scenario?

Make that a false overview in the case of Stowe, or Taos. I am disappointed that James did not inquire on this subject, and I believe the way to go about that diplomatically would be to place these questions in an Alps context. Feel free to follow up, assuming you got his contact info...

Island Lake guides are good at planning ahead. As I suspected the south facing trees were crusted. There was wind in the alpine. We got one run fairly high before they said wind loading was a concern. But they had saved the north facing trees below the Lizard Range alpine, so most of our...

Fairmont has a surface lift serving a beginner run or two. So I say Worldskitraveller rides each lift once for about 1,200 vertical. Anyone here think differently?

Actually I think I did, but part of that info came from the conversation with the mother and daughter in the parking lot. I also learned a fair amount from the Panorama resident with whom I rode the first two lifts on Saturday. I’ll ask James again, “Do you think Worldskitraveller averaged...

Yes there is a ski area there, not just the hot spring. Stuart chose to ski there one of the days on his first (?) trip to interior B.C. Lonnie visited lots of extremely obscure areas like this on his western road trips in 2012-2023. So what was I doing there? 1) I stayed overnight in the...

Today Tuesday was sunny and warmed to about 30F. The treed runs on Mt. Baldy and Mt. Fernie have sunny exposures so we hit some of those again this morning because they will be bad tomorrow and until it next snows, which is expected Friday. The snow was of course heavier in the morning sun...

James, what happened to the Stowe and Front Four questions? It's a concrete example that WorldSkiTraveller's methodology is so superficial that he misses the essence of a prominent area like Stowe. I'm not critical of collecting a bunch of small places, even though I personally draw a line in...

Kachina has been open to hikers earlier this season as EMSC posted. I suspect patrol opens it intermittently based on current conditions. Don’t be surprised if it closes again during the upcoming dry spell. The chair is a long way from opening IMHO on season snowfall of 76 inches. It never...

It will be a while to get through pictures, so I think it’s worthwhile to have an overview thread of the current timeframe. Another problem is that Island Lake’s WiFi works on my phone but not my tablet where my pictures are. My ski days at Chatter Creek were Feb. 18-20. They said it had...

That is correct. I thought Panorama was a strange first choice for Stuart's first trip to interior B.C. Even more strange is that he skied a day at Fairmont Hot Springs, where I skied today for 1.5 hours in the interest of not getting tired before round two of cat skiing at Island Lake.