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I had an acquaintance who would spend six weeks every winter heli-skiiing with CHM (the only skiing he did, I believe) and I once asked him how many vertical feet he had accumulated; he casually replied, "Oh, I think something over 14 million". I'm not sure if he had 14 separate one-piece CHM suits?

Yea, I was supposed to go up this weekend but the weather forecast is for maybe some rain on Friday, even at Mt. Tremblant, and then turning very cold and windy on Saturday. Does not sound like a pleasant day to ski. I admit I've become somewhat of a skiing wimp when it comes to cold weather, as...

Not here in central New England. Almost completely bare ground in the Berkshires of western New England. We've had very little snow and quite a bit of rain and warmer temps. The local ski hills have been able to make enough snow to get almost 100% of their terrain open but no natural snow on...

Interestingly, I just looked at the live web cams for both Grand Targhee and Jackson Hole. Looks like almost no one is skiing at either resort this week. Pretty much ski on to all of the major lifts at both resorts and GT is reporting thin coverage on any south-facing slopes. I wonder if a lot...

I would guess Killington thinks it is prestigious to host a World Cup race and probably think it is "free" publicity for the resort. I'm not sure it drives huge numbers of skiers to go to Killington over the course of the Winter but I have no numbers to back that up.

I don't even consider what some of the "extreme" skiers do on extremely steep (and narrow) terrain (like here) to be even "skiing". They just throw their skis back and forth across the fall line (with "jump turns") and try to set an edge to stop their momentum down the slope. IMHO, more like...

I can't help but laugh when I read this thread. I grew up two towns over from "Ward Hill" (as it was known in the 60's) and I, more or less, learned to ski there, as a kid. It had, maybe, 200 feet of "vertical" with a T-bar and, I think, 1 or 2 rope tows. Typical small, local, central New...

Yea, I forget the exact dates but I believe my daughter would start the first or second week in September and the first trimester would end before Thanksgiving; then she would have 5 or 6 weeks off, through Christmas and New Year's (avoiding the cold and dark month of December in Minnesota), and...

Yea, my daughter had a somewhat similar schedule when she was in college in Minnesota. They were on trimester system and the first trimester ended right before Thanksgiving; then, they would have the entire month of December off and they would start up again in the first week of January, so she...

https://news.yahoo.com/el-ni-o-back-bringing-155547125.html Story from the LA Times about the possibility of another strong El Nino for next Winter, into 2024.

Just looked at the webcams for Grand Targhee. Snowing moderately hard there today and still looks like mid-winter. They've closed for the season but are allowing uphill climbing. It's a shame that, in a snow year like this one, they close down so early but I guess they run out of paying...

Yea, you can run only so many gates before terminal boredom sets in (unless you're Mikaela Shiffrin).

Nice views from your son and daughter-in-law's piece of land. Are they planning to build a house there ? Move there permanently?

I remember that day well, you skipped work but didn’t let me skip a day of AP Chemistry for Baldy powder. Hell, I would have INSISTED that my daughter skip AP Chemistry to ski with me on a day like that!!

I don't mean to quote Donald Trump, LOL, but might this fall under the category of "fake news"?

Yea, Tony, I've lived in New England most of my life and there have been some lean winters over the last 60 years or so, in terms of snowfall and lack of consistently cold weather, and even during "heavy snow" winters, there are almost always thaws and rain events. But this year seems especially...

LOL, there is that adage in the journalism business: "never let the truth get in the way of a good story". Of course, I am sitting in my home office, here in New England, on Feb. 10, looking out at green grass in my back yard. 50 degrees here today at 10:00 AM. I'm thinking about hitting some...