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I play a fair amount of golf in the summer in Virginia, usually at a very affordable nine-hole muni two miles from my house for $14 per nine. But about 10 times a year I will play with friends at full 18 hole courses. Some of my friends play in a seniors league and I pinch hit with them when...

Yes, that goes for Taos and Mammoth too. Compiling an accurate list of senior freebies or near freebies is hard. The deals change every year and as Tony C alluded to, ski areas often raise the age and/or cost. Also, sometimes you have to dig really deep on ski area websites to find the senior...

Lake effect at it's finest! :)

Was that an especially big dump last weekend, or does this happen several times a season in this part of NY? 66 inches?!?

I can tell from your sunset photos that you often enjoy driving around the US West as much as I do. I'm going to start my westward migration in about ten days. Hope to ski at Winter Park and Copper along the way. The only time I don't enjoy the cross country drive is when there is a blizzard...

My daughter in NYC reports many cases of norovirus there at this time with symptoms similar to food poisoning.

Wow. Sierra at Tahoe looks like the back bowls of Vail now, sorry sad joke. I have only one day at Sierra at Tahoe, with my son back in 2013. It was a great powder day and we had a lot of fun. Such beautiful trees! So sad many are gone. My old trip report: https://www.dcski.com/articles/1388

Anyone else out there enjoying age 70 free skiing? Tell us who, what and where :) I started doing it last year. Skied at Massanutten, VA and Monarch, CO. Monarch actually lets you start doing it at age 69. Massanutten charged a $25 processing fee, which included an RFID card. Monarch...

I hit midweek at Palisades in early March 2024. Lift lines not bad. Parking and traffic somewhat busy, but manageable. It was right after one of those huge Tahoe atmospheric river type dumps and conditions were great once the visibility cleared. I'd been to Palisades-Tahoe for two days about...

That Miners Camp lodge in your photo is always quite a busy place on big days at Park City. I have quite a few days at Park City, but IIRC the last was in 2020. Since then I've kind of stuck to Ikon. It's a huge place and fun to explore in good conditions and moderate crowds.

Wow. Homestead Crater. You got one on me with all the time I spend in Utah. I gotta visit that place sometime with my wife.

Good job! You brought some snow with you to Utah!:)

I spent five days in the Tahoe basin last March. It was right after a big ~40" storm and all roads in the area were still pretty messed up. We arrived at Alpine Meadows on Monday afternoon and skied in the tail end of the stormy weather, windy and low viz with some weird crusty surfaces...

RIP Jimmy Carter, a former president who became a Sunday school teacher. How great is that? I never voted for him, yet he was probably the most wholesome and decent president in my lifetime.

Man, it's hard to believe we're entering the year 2525: Oops, got a half millennium ahead of myself :p Happy New Year to all First Trackers! The two Tonys in center, Tony C and tseeb:

Yeah, somebody asked me this fall if I'd ever had a serious, show stopping ski injury. And I never had anything that kept me out more than a week, and very few that kept me out more than a day. Shortly after, my back went out before the season even started 😶‍🌫️ It's gradually getting better...

I've eaten at a few InOuts during my western travels. We don't have them in the mid-Atlantic. I ate at a terrible one in Vegas once, but have tried a good one in the Salt Lake Valley a few times. I like Five Guys the best of the burger chains, and especially like their fries,, but they are...

Way to get out there! I've had a very sore lower back condition for two weeks and have not yet begun my ski season. It's troubling because I did not do anything excessively strenuous to deserve it:icon-confused: Old age I guess? But it's slowly improving and I hope to ski a few times locally...

Not sure if this 38 minute video/list from November 2024 has been discussed here already this fall, but I thought it was a pretty intelligent and entertaining assessment. They rank 25 US ski destinations from worst to best. The big one I might quibble with is Palisades-Tahoe being placed down...

That footprint comparison seems small-ish for an area with 30 or more ski lifts? I noted your comment in your report that in 2023 the lift pass was not reciprocal between the two - Vars/Risoul. I wonder if that has been fixed? I'll have to see if my daughter plans any sightseeing in a gateway...