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We passed though the Maurienne Valley in Jan/Feb 2023, but skied the two areas at the far west end. That trip started with sbooker and family in Les Arcs, and the next day was at Valloire/Valmeinier. Aussois is south facing. La Norma like most of these places, rises to 2,700 meters, though...

We will never know since A-Basin is part of Alterra now. 75% is a big number. The only example I know about is Washington State in 2004-05, when the Tropical Punch rain and ensuing dry spell closed most areas completely from late January through late March. I already posted A-Basin's percent...

That's what former admin tried to do here on FTO. The News drove most of his traffic, but it took him 3-5 hours per day to do it, and he finally burned out.

Interesting link posted on Harvey's forum: https://coloradosun.com/2026/06/05/matthew-prince-park-city-vail-resorts/

Very big at Mammoth; my son Adam was in them from 2003-2015. It will be interesting to see how much Epic Pass sales decline after a season like the past one. The effect may be modest but there will be one.

The vast majority of destination skiers do. We are highly unrepresentative here. But recall that in one of the travel plan threads EMSC said 95% of his ski days including location are determined by October. An even in my case Iron Blosam Week is fixed before the season starts and usually cat...

That was my impression. I had a delightful Mediterranean cruise plus a few days in Rome in this exact time frame in 2004.

Ski resorts are usually in regional context. St. Foy is in a tough neighborhood in that regard, arguably the most competitive ski region in the world. And not only the famous places, as it's also far short of La Rosiere/La Thuile.

Australia was THE power in tennis during my years of futility at it 1963-1967.

Yes it precipitates at least as much in summer as winter in the Alps, with the possible exception of the Maritimes. As I found out during the only time I'm been there in the summer, briefly in August 1999.

Yes, the multiple areas in one day bears a superficial resemblance to WST. But the amount of vertical skied even with changing out of ski boots and relocating a car blows my mind. At my pace even a modest size place like St. Foy would consume most of a ski day. Our first day at Les Arcs in...

I'll just say that the current era is difficult and giving the USA an unprecedented black eye reputation elsewhere in the world. We need to reserve judgment for at least a decade to determine whether this is an aberration or more lasting situation. It would have been a brief aberration if...

Fraser's favorite piste in the Alps. We skied it in April 2022 so only 5,925 vertical of it. We took several laps on Grand Col on both of our visits.

My EWR rental cars were in 2011, 2014, 2018 and 2024.

I wrote that a long time ago. Powder Mt. should not be on that list. I had no records of its snowfall and had a ski friend who raved about the place. 2000 was when I first started tracking percent of terrain open in-season. Loveland should not be on the list either due to extremely slow...

I've rented cars from EWR at least 4x. I don't even recall a parking garage. They were off site parking lots and yes navigation to them is a challenge.

Yes, I can see you have to make an airport choice in advance if it's a short trip. At Solden itself, it's probably only the two glaciers that are reliable early season. Kingslug gave a big thumbs down on a January trip there when weather did not cooperate, said lower sectors had lots of...

Detailed overview above is added to existing thread on the topic. An ominous point is that the Jordanelle water allotment for snowmaking is not unlimited. In fact the new water available to the new terrain is proportionately lower than what Deer Valley is utilizing on its prior terrain.

:eusa-doh: I realized I have some summary water-to-snow data from both Austria and Switzerland! West coast North America rain vs. snow incidence: Nov. > Dec. > Jan. + Apr. > Feb. + Mar. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. Alpine Mdws 7,000 20.9% 17.1% 15.3% 14.1% 13.9% 14.4% High Alps...

I would not make that statement for off piste. 2018-19 was an exceptionally banner early season through January at least for Austria and eastern Switzerland with repeated Nordstau storms. We scored that region a month after James did. And you would not say that such events are more likely in...