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Aldi owns Trader Joe's and purchased the company in 1979 from founder Joe Coulombe, who lived next door to my parents in the 1970's. Joe remained CEO until retiring in 1988. As I may have mentioned before, Trader Joe's in the 1970's was responsible for my acquiring a taste for premium wine...

ChrisC has enumerated the reasons I'm unlikely to ski in South America again. 72 hours, but still insane. Liz and I were researching this itinerary in 2014, but it requires 3.5 weeks. We abandoned the idea around this time of year due to lack of snow. The day WST skied Las Lenas included...

You have to buy your pass early. One of the advantages of a multiarea pass is that you can choose which destination one based on conditions. That's what we did on Dec. 22 in 2013-14 with Mountain Collective to ski Aspen Jan. 1-7. Ikon has plenty of regional flexibility and Epic has Whistler...

We will be visiting both in late July.

At least one of those pics above is dated Dec. 17. With none of the Seattle or Vancouver local areas open yet due to too much rain, that's not a surprise.

You missed the :snowfight: during Patrick's 2010 trip? La Hoya is at the ends of the earth but it is where Patrick had the best conditions on two of his trips, so he extended his time there in 2010. I'd point out that he could routinely get days of that quality at Castle Mt., which is a perfect...

Final numbers for every area I track over 300 inches: Mt. Baker, Wash. 4,300 439 Revelstoke, B.C. 6,429 432 Mt. Rainier Paradise, Wash. 5,420 408 Mt. Bohemia, Mich. 800 363 Squaw Valley, Calif. 8,000 354 Sugar Bowl, Calif. 7,000 348 Sunshine Village...

I was roped both times. I remember the 8-person NASJA group in 2004 because the guide is in the back for control of the rope and he specifically ordered me to be in the front. Liz says we were roped in 2018 too. I didn't recall as I was sick that day and in somewhat of a daze at 12,000...

More unfortunately long term data concentrates Central Chile precipitation in June/July with decreasing amounts in later months. So a dry June is a bad indicator. Offsetting might be the strengthening El Nino, but it's only at +0.5 at end of May.

Pucon lift served looked very marginal when Liz and I were there for New Year's 2018. It's mostly attractive to backcountry skiers who climb the Villarrica volcano above the lifts. Corralco has Amercian management, bought a high speed quad from Holiday Valley and shipped it to Chile. Stuart...

My observation is that climate change affects: 1) Inland areas more than coastal areas 2) Summer more than winter, especially in the inland areas. So in terms of skiing what is most visible is the shrinking summer glacier season in the Alps. North America's summer ski scene is way more...

What is the difference between Rugby Union and Rugby League? Is one of them the 7-man version that is popular in Fiji?

The observation I made in post #2 above prompted me to refresh and update my El Nino page.

Yes, Liz and I went to a game in Buenos Aires. The visiting team fans were segregated into a section behind one of the goals with a 20+ foot high chain link fence. When the game was over those fans were let out of the stadium immediately and no one else was allowed to leave for 15 minutes.

Sbooker can correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that soccer's place in the pecking order of popular spectator sports is similar in Australia as in the U.S. How many variants of "Aussie Rules" football are there in addition to rugby, which is THE sport in New Zealand? In July 1997 we...

Unhappy neighbor today! 0 for 2.

World Cup game today, accurately predicted by @jamesdeluxe The game started at 5AM in sbooker's time zone.

Jimmy probably counts all of those SkiWelt villages, for sure any of them that started as stand alone ski areas. In fairness he has been living in Austria since the 1970’s and may have skied some with defined boundaries. The most clear cut reason and means to divide big complexes is when there...

It is counterintuitive but even when you get on the south side of the San Juan Mts. at Purgatory and Wolf Creek, there is still no evidence of favor to El Niño.

I know that. That's the argument for counting as three areas. I should have specified Val Thorens was the fourth developed ski area. Liz is occasionally stricter on ski area definition that I am. Last night I found one example where she is not. She counted Oz Vaujany as separate from Alpe...