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The Sierra storm this week was first predicted to last most of the week, but when it was revised to wrap up by Wednesday we decided to ski Mammoth Thursday/Friday. An unexpected bonus was that the top did not open Wednesday. We were not up there as soon as we should have been. We parked across...

Even though he lives there, IIRC James learned to ski in Colorado and not that much of his lifetime skiing is in the Northeast. Surely Liz has far more NE experience. As for me, I saw my fair share of hardpack during my formative ski seasons in SoCal, and there are also some spring days when it...

My first reaction was "south facing?" but James' link provides more context. The key upper lift is east facing, and the overall ski day description reminded me of our day at St. Luc-Chandolin in April 2022. I note that Tsantonnaire upper lift is a marathon poma similar to St. Luc. The author...

I read comments like those tseeb saw, made about Phoenix a lot. Great Basin/desert environments seem extra sensitive to urban heat island effects in the summer. Reno, Boise, Vegas and Phoenix have all seen explosive population growth and building development since 1970. It should be...

This linked article was the surprising one to me. Santa Barbara County, the main subject of the article, is similar. I have commented before that the most noticeable change in SoCal weather since I was a kid is the decrease in fog/Gray May/June Gloom. That is a major feature of...

I wonder why Fraser went there when he's been posting all season about how threadbare the lower elevations are. Exposure is not great either. Did he forget his own snow quality equation?

The end-of-day run down to La Daille was fairly close, mostly about the ice skating rink surface, but the number of bodies was a major contributor to that.

Perhaps not as slow as the warmup at Obergurgl we had two years ago. A vast majority of west facing in spring can be a detriment as discussed then. In St. Foy's favor is that it is more under the radar, so perhaps afternoon corn snow was smoother than a busier area. That Zoneski report looks...

It's called the Gulf Stream. One of the doomsday climate scenarios is that melting continental ice shuts down the Gulf Stream, resulting in western Europe having the same climatology as the similar latitudes in Canada. This occurred regularly at the end of big ice ages when the North American...

Yes, predictability is worth something. I'm infamous in certain quarters for my critique of Jackson's snow preservation and surprisingly short reliable season, but at least it's predictable. This applies to most expert weighted areas, Snowbird and Palisades for sure and to some extent...

Yes but A-Basin's expert terrain stays open until wet snow instability threatens with consecutive no overnight freezes. Average date for that is in the May 10-15 range. So a 3+ month reliable season is not that bad; the timing is just different from other ski areas. If you're an expert skier...

That is a statement of fact, not necessarily a recommendation. In trying to convince James to go to Val d'Isere, I knew even before this potshot that Tignes would be a non-starter for him despite the lower pricing. In my case I also find the skiing logistics better being based in Val...

Sbooker's last NZ pic is probably from Coronet Peak. The Lake Wanaka views are the best, in your face while skiing the front side of Treble Cone like some of the runs on California side of Heavenly. The view from the Remarkables is off the back and requires a 2-3 minutes walk above the...

Because they are part of the narrative of his recent trip and taking his wife up for the view. I'm usually the one who moves off topic posts and I don't see this one as off topic.

Sbooker is an Aussie and has presumably seen/red about Rupert's entire career. He should have more insight than any of us. I do not think the Murdoch's were in favor of Trump when he was first running in 2015. After he won the nomination in 2016 is when they started supporting him. However...

I'd say similar to western countries. More in the high end hotels judging by that Mexican restaurant in the Atlantis, which would be true in western countries as well. It's like ChrisC has noted for high visibility tourist attractions in South America. Pricing is based upon typical first...

This comment applies to Homewood. The entire lake is visible, but because you're so close it doesn't fit in one picture the way it does at Heavenly. Since Thunder Mt. at Baldy is 8,600 feet, the vistas to the Pacific at sea level are close to unique for a ski area. The closest coastline in...

+10, couldn't agree more.

Snowbird kicks a lot of butts. My age related issues (mainly the suck wind breaks) are evident most often during Iron Blosam Week the last few years. I'll speculate that JimK is not seeing those effects so much at Snowbird because he's only skiing partial days in Utah but probably closer to...

Val d’Isere vs. Tignes for ambience is sort of like Aspen vs. Snowmass. In both cases you pay up to stay in the historic resort town.