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Southwest is CA, NV, AZ, same definition as Kottke/NSAA. ChrisC: This is precisely the reason for my bias in favor of them. Often we can examine a trail map before we set foot on a new place and figure out how to avoid crowds. I love all those Q&As ChrisC posted!:eusa-clap:

Good luck on that in South America aside from Portillo and maybe Valle Nevado. The Alps may not be so easy either. I think Fraser made a serious effort at it, which he has essentially abandoned. He has not published a "Who Got the Most Snow in the Alps" feature for the past two seasons. The...

Big picture our lists are overall constructed similarly. ChrisC's results are very marginally more liberal than mine. Because I count vertical within each ski area, I have a geography bias toward requiring defined boundaries. Fortunately that fits well with the Euros' Skististics criteria...

Evolution of From 1996-2008 I was a guest during Iron Blosam week, skiing 3 or 4 days there. In those olden days I'd buy tickets at SLC ski shops. The best deal for Snowbird was a 2-out-of-5-days ticket that was probably at least 1/3 off 2 window tickets. From 2009-2013 I had finally bought...

How far off piste can you go there without falling into a crevasse? :icon-lol: When we were there all the pistes were winter packed powder without a trace of firm subsurface on the top 3,000 vertical at least. Ungroomed near the pistes was nearly all wind blown sastrugi with some breakable...

Updated through June 2026: Region ChrisC TonyC James Patrick Liz Lonnie EMSC JimK MarzNC Eastern Canada 4 4 18 80 4 0 0 2 2 US Northeast 67 8 30 33 23 1 35 29 27 US Atlantic+Southeast+Midwest 25 1 7 3 3 0 13 16 19 US Northwest 18 16 2 4 7 30 2 1 2 US Southwest 24 28 0 4 18 34 9 9 9...

I checked with the direct websites. Hintertux is indeed closing July 26 until mid-September in 2026. I do not know whether this is permanent change in policy or due to the bad snow year in Austria. Zermatt's summer operations for 2026 are shown here. An interesting point is the time of day...

We skied La Clusaz on a Saturday in 2018 and Thursday's powder had been hit fairly hard on Friday.

I would be firmly in the AltaBird camp. As it is, with Ikon about half my days include time at both areas. Formerly an AltaBird pass was about 150% of a single area pass. Due to the spat over parking/reservations/traffic you now have to buy the season passes separately. Living there, jimk is...

I finally got Heavenly and Kirkwood. So 2025-26 Season Summary is here. Link fixed 6/12.

(n)(n)(n) Definitely the worst place to post ski content. Good luck tracking it down after few months, much less seasons later. You need to figure it out. Wasn't Patrick the one back when EpicSki Forum shut down who said you should control your own content? I don't demand TRs all be posted...

Sbooker and Kylie are both well into the above average range of travelers in terms of how much sleep they can get on long haul flights. That depends upon your level of determination. :icon-lol: Liz does not sleep well at all on planes but is a hard core travel junkie and sucks it up. I...

I say that Patrick's definition of a ski day is "on snow" is not unreasonable. So yes indoor is legit for counting a ski day or a ski area. But when it come to a monthly ski streak, it's obvious that many people could routinely ski June-October indoors, which defeats the whole challenge...

We did not ski Gaislachkogl freeride in March 2022 because we were surveying the whole area on day one and not there during the late morning timing that would be appropriate for the east facing chutes. But the #1 piste was very well maintained packed powder early in the morning and most of it...

I read the Powderhounds review, and it definitely looks worth checking out. Scale seems on the order of La Rosiere/La Thuile, and it's on the way into either the Tarantaise or Maurienne. Altitude range is middling, like Sybelles across the Maurienne. So I'd want to be there in above average...

With addition of Park City data this morning, I am only missing Heavenly, Kirkwood and Mt. Fidelity in Canada's Glacier NP. Due to change in procedures this year, I will not get the latter numbers until at least mid-July. Hopefully that's a one shot occurrence.

IIRC James takes a harder line on indoor skiing than I do.

@jamesdeluxe , do I have new areas starred correctly? @ChrisC , I need your new areas for 2025-26. Would that be just the 4 in Gstaad?

I see a silver lining here. With the climate demise of late summer Timberline, Big Snow New Jersey has become the only choice for lift served in North America in September, and this year August as well. Plus New Jersey is an easy last minute escape for Octobers that don't work out weather...

An L.A. Times writer hiked past Mt. Waterman to Buckhorn Campground in May 2026 to inspect the extensive road damage. There is no ETA for reopening Angeles Crest Hwy. However the writer observed repair crews working in three locations before Mt. Waterman, where she passed by with this...