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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...

Over the years I believe sbooker's grousing about airfares is very legit. On various occasions I've scored some good deals to Europe, some great deals to South America and some amazing deals to Asia. Never have I had comparable bargain airfares to the South Pacific, plus I can almost never use...

I skied 25 out of 29 days Feb. 9 - Mar. 9. I’ve never been this consistently tired, so average vertical is way down. Historically a day just skiing groomers might be sufficient to reset a normal energy level and one day off would nearly always work. Most likely explanation is age. Al Solish...

The summit of Hohe Salve (pic below, marginally skiable when were were there in 2017, but not during James' visit) is the only skiing above tree line in the original and largest Ski Welt complex north of the road into Kitzbuhel. On the south side of that road, Westendorf and Kitzbuhel have...

https://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/threads/yellowstone-club-files-for-bankruptcy.7173/post-55287 That post said there were 370 members in 2010, so one might assume at least twice as many skiers per day/season now vs. then.

Wasn't the Pitztal Glacier on your Indy Pass? In late March 2022 it was still all winter snow after a sustained dry spell at least as long as the current one. And Rifflsee which is on the same ticket had great late morning corn

Probably not 90%, but I'm sure they can't be rented commercially. Guests can be there only when the member is present, and each member gets 100 guest passes per year I read or heard somewhere. But the Yellowstone Club is very active in summer, with onsite golf, fly fishing, horses, and of...

In 2001 NASJA journalists at the Big Sky annual meeting had an opportunity to visit the Yellowstone Club in its formative stage. Most of the ski area had been built and the first 70 members had joined, but none of them had built houses yet. The thread above has additional posts from 2019 with...

There is nothing for me to add here to posts by kingslug and Tseeb. Liz and I were at Alta Sunday with former admin, kingslug and company. Monday Liz and I skied with Adam, Alexa, Ben, Eddie and Chris, but mostly groomers as Alexa was having boot issues. I have been worn down by skiing 25...

Former admin said today was his best day of the season at Alta. This after complaining about the traffic this morning.

Jim Steenburgh was a visiting professor at the university in Innsbruck a few years ago. He is mostly a backcountry skier and relied exclusively on public transit during the months he lived there. When I looked up his URL to post here, I discovered he's in Innsbruck right now! You should...

Yes I think Banff is still a safe bet this spring. Mt. Bachelor is opening the Summit chair today. This is surely its latest opening since it was installed in 1982. Crested Butte's North Face is still closed. Don't be fooled that the lift is running. The only open skiing is the short runs...

The run of consistent Northeast winter weather came to an end this week. However, to the extent there was any rain it must have been modest. The major Vermont areas remain in full operation this weekend with spring conditions.

T-shirt weather from that last pic?

I did not know that. Portes du Soleil has far more interesting skiing. Liz' summation of SkiWelt as 5x (Killington+Sugarbush) remains accurate from this TR IMHO. Yes, Liz and I skied 60K vertical in our 2 days at SkiWelt, part of my 6-day record of 184,900. But we probably had better snow...

Liz and I left Moonlight soon after its liftline grew to 10 minutes. We stuck to cruisers as Friday is going to be obviously much better. So I toured Liz to the areas we didn't ski Wednesday: Elk Park Ridge to Thunder Wolf, the Deep South boundary to Yellowstone Club property and the Lewis...

Liz and I arrived at Big Sky at least 1.5 hours after Tseeb. We had to wait for a freight train in Bozeman and a one lane section on Hwy 191. Liz also didn't bring her Ikon pass and had to get a new one at the ticket office. Big Sky was conspicuously low tide vs. my three prior visits in...

It’s a dog didn’t bark situation. Saddam was very dangerous, had already attacked two of his neighbors and used WMDs on Iran and the Kurds. It’s pure speculation what he would have done if left in place, but invading Syria when its civil war started in 2011 is a fairly safe bet. Incorrect. ISIS...

Most of them, yes. I have more, but I'd rather wait until I have explored all of WST's links thoroughly.