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Jamesdeluxe-approved offpiste may not be very exciting but at least you won't have to repair core shots! Of course I hate ice or concrete conditions on groomers; however, hitting rocks (especially when they ruin otherwise nice offpiste snow) is the worst ski feeling of all. I'm reminded of a...

Happy to see that you were able to turn that frown upside-down. Nice! I assume that you didn't run into the Prince of Brisbane?

It's a very small percentage of my overall ski areas in the Alps (4 out of 93) but I can clearly recall the times I got stuck on a treeless upper mountain like @EMSC (fog pix below) with nothing to visually lock onto: Ischgl, Werfenwang, Heuberge, and Anzère. Not fun, exacerbated by the fact...

Here's a NYT article that discusses U.S. travelers being concerned about how they'll be perceived abroad. I didn't encounter any issues on my recent trip but perhaps that would've happened had locals heard me speaking American English. When I lived in France and Germany 37 years ago during the...

As long as you don't die or are otherwise maimed, you have a cocktail-party story for the ages!

Without a friend who has an Epic Pass, you would have paid the $329 window price. Even with dynamic pricing, there wouldn't have been any discount as a walk-up customer because it was a powder day. I guess that's one way of limiting crowds! I may have asked this question in a separate thread...

Hah, we had that same discussion in 2016. Interesting to note that the Chälen sector has two different sets of four flatirons: the ones in the center here and a slightly smaller set that face the top of the chair (red arrow). The green arrow to the right is where I had a foot of untouched...

I've always had very quick processing at Geneva, Zurich, and Milan. The only exception was at Zurich during the middle of COVID. Like you, it took an hour to get through. Ultimately not a huge amount of time (compared for example to my recent 2.5-hour delay leaving JFK) but there's something...

I booked eight hours before arriving and got a $75 US per night single rate which included an excellent breakfast. I just checked for next week (Monday through Thursday) and it showed as low as $102 per night for two people. Those were both with a good-sized booking.com discount, fell on...

Yes, and you're guaranteed to be one of very few non-locals there. Because I usually stay in "cheap and cheerful" quarters when traveling solo, I rarely give a plug for my lodging; however, I'll do it for the aptly-named Seeblick (Lakeview) Hotel in the village of Emmetten, where I stayed three...

Same for the most part. I don't like the 2-3 weeks every summer of hot/humid in the northeast and despite the tired cliché ("but it's a dry heat!") that people love to repeat in the western U.S., it doesn't matter to me how dry it is once the temp gets above 95F/35C. Knowing this, a friend who...

Likewise You're on a run this morning.

Let's not forget about the unique experience of guided, in-bounds avalanches! :icon-lol:

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Is that a dealbreaker for many people?

Never argue with a powder day no matter where it is (I've had memorable ones even at small joints like Greek Peak, NY); however, as a non-expert who doesn't require badass terrain, I share this general view. In addition to poor vis, a spoiler for me is skiing at many Euro industrial resorts...

Clearly, what Sbooker and his group did is allowed but where in the bullets below is the exception that a copter can transport recreational users from one ski area in France to another? I recall seeing a landing pad at Bonneval sur Arc and assumed it was only there to transport injured skiers to...

Not to be a scold (and we've covered this topic recently), but there wasn't a group FYI beforehand that putting the bar down is required everywhere in the world other than the western U.S.? To be fair, stopping the lift is a bit extreme -- a few times when I didn't lower the bar quickly enough...

Not cheeky at all -- three runs definitely counts as a day in my book. Tony would only grade it as a half day but that's his choice as a statistics geek. Several of us have noted the time, expense, and passion it takes to assemble that number of ski areas from where Sbooker is based. Other than...

Paydirt! It's a North American term and you'll have look it up because I'm jealous.