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I would say the upside is higher. With lower skier density at Bachelor you will likely get a higher proportion of corn snow skiing if the temperatures cooperate. However, the temperatures and clear skies are somewhat less likely to cooperate in Oregon. This has led me to schedule the 2021 and...

My Southern Hemisphere personal records page has links to extensive TRs and feature articles I have written if you scroll down below the summary table. There is a fair amount of commentary from other FTO posters in those TR threads too. In either case snow reliability is far from western North...

Bad wording on my part. I meant TV visible from transmitter 80 miles away. By simple trig, line of sight from the 1,454 foot Empire State Building antenna would be 66 miles. We all know that favorable atmospheric conditions can extend those distances considerably. Over bodies of water is...

I suspected that our Verdugo Hills signal shadow got cable very early on, so I asked our 94 year old neighbor who has been there 60 years. She wasn't sure but her educated guess based upon the age of her oldest kid was 1967. Manhattan was also very early with cable TV (1965), even though the...

Interesting. I always assumed that L.A Metro was one of the last places to get widespread cable. Why? From as early as I remember (late 1950's) L.A. had 7 VHF stations and in the 1960's got PBS and a few others on UHF. The signals broadcast from 5,700 foot Mt. Wilson had a broad reach with...

From James' link, Those are my college years, during which I virtually never watched prime time TV shows except when I was home in the summers.

In July 2023, Liz had us drive by when her niece Sara was visiting from Sweden.

I have been there twice in early April with predominantly winter conditions in the alpine. Whistler resembles Mammoth and Bachelor in terms of the deep coastal snowpack, high altitude relative to latitude (important for overnight freezing in spring) and an extended season well into May...

I have said several times that low skier density is a key element in the development of the smooth low resistance ideal corn condition. I think it would be once in a blue moon that a groomed run in the Northeast would be left undisturbed long enough in spring for that smooth uniform surface to...

It's probably harder to come by in Colorado lift service in terms of the combination of weather and low skier density. I'd guess the backcountry off the 12,000 foot high passes in May/June might be a good bet. There is no question in my mind that Bachelor is the highest frequency place for...

:icon-mrgreen::icon-mrgreen::icon-mrgreen: There is a reason 6-7 month ski seasons have been routine for me while maintaining standards of quality. Unlike a certain famous member of this forum:smileyvault-stirthepot:, I'll extend to more months only if I don't have to lower those standards.

Mammoth is one of the relatively few places where you can expect most of that snow to stick. We returned for another couple of days in mid-November. Meanwhile Palisades opened only for that Oct. 29-31 weekend and couldn't reopen until December.

The logical reason would be allocation of vacation time. I would say Brisbane and Perth are the two worst first world cities in the world for a skier to live. So we can applaud sbooker's dedication to skiing, which makes mine or perhaps even Patrick's pale in comparison. Sbooker skiing...

That is definitely the way Mammoth looks at it. It depends upon the daily conditions whether they salt.

Mammoth salts groomers a lot, but usually starting in May. The salt is sprayed our the back of a snowcat in by a fan nozzle to spread it out horizontally. That salt is white not blue. I'm sure the US Ski Team has exact requirements of what they want, and maybe that could be a different type...

Clouds moved in Tuesday night. Wednesday vs. Tuesday was a textbook example of the clouds drastically minimizing the overnight freeze. In this scenario crowds will degrade the snow very quickly, but fortunately Wednesday was even quieter than Tuesday. The morning was mostly cloudy with a sunny...

I should have known when Tseeb declined my invitation to join us at Mammoth that we might get a primo corn day. :icon-razz: This has happened 3x before. We got out at 8:30 Tuesday morning to clear skies and a solid overnight freeze. What got my attention first was a race course starting at the...

Weather indicated we should do something other than ski on Friday and Saturday April 25-26. So we visited: Lake Shasta Caverns Redding's Kool April Nites classic car cruise Empire Mine State Historic Park We stayed in Emigrant Gap Saturday night, half an hour west of Sugar Bowl at 5,100...

The map of watersheds is consistent with the north to south variation vs. average in California precipitation. However any water content numbers late in April look low because of the higher than average melt rate this month. As on April 12 Palisades Gold Coast snowfall was 94%, Alpine Meadows...

Yes. The real issue here is that lots of these hydrology SNOTELs are far below ski area elevations. So the Oregon state average of 20.3 inches looks quite irrelevant vs. the pics I post below from Crater Lake. Here's the water basin chart EMSC and I agree is most appropriate for skiers. These...