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The good news is that I still have home insurance. It's up 33% from last year and is now more than my property taxes! Prop. 13 caps annual property tax increases to 2%. The home insurance is now 269% higher than in 2019.

Interesting that the fall foliage is still going strong mid-October at 9,000+ feet.

The tail end of the southwest monsoon season is the reason Wolf Creek has October openings. I don't recall details but sometime I waded through some SNOTEL records and noticed as a generalization that most storms in the first half of October fell with temps above freezing at the 10,600 foot...

Is she still working? That's key to the resentment. "You're having fun while I'm slaving away!"

At least as marginal as Mt. Waterman. :smileyvault-stirthepot:

Sun Peaks is very logical place to use something like this. It has a cold but not snowy climate and is committed to hosting race teams in November. We have seen stockpile snowmaking in spring for use in the fall only once, at Pitztal Glacier. A cursory search indicates that those snow...

That's low end of the Catskills. Lake effect must be trivial.

The ungroomed black run I skied at Thredbo in 1997 is named Funnelweb, so I learned about that spider then.

The two lifts and terrain pod at far right of ChrisC's map are also not yet developed. James' map captions above are entertaining. I'm sure Snowshoe is one of those places where you "Don't even think about skiing here on a weekend or holiday." During my first 1999 NASJA meeting at Mammoth I...

I suspected that the roads were difficult. And even though Snowshoe may be bigger than other MASH and SE resorts, on an absolute scale I think it's still what James would call Tier 3 Northeast. Thus given effort and lodging cost, it does not surprise me that many skiers prefer

I would suggest that Plattekill gets more snow than Hunter from being on the windward rather than leeward side of the Catskills. With no high mountains west or northwest of the Catskills, Plattekill should get something from orographic uplift in many weather disturbances. I'll ask again about...

I needed to go on Google Earth to check some geography in detail. If you draw a line due east from Toronto, it passes over 150 miles of Lake Ontario, then over Snow Ridge and McCauley 45-60 miles later. If you draw a line WSW-ENE from Hamilton, it passes over 185 miles of Lake Ontario (maximum...

I'd say close to zero lake effect in that location. Mount Washington is a unique microclimate. I wonder how they can even measure snowfall when most of it arrives horizontally. Does anyone know how much snow falls on the western side of the Adirondacks once they have some real elevation...

Similar low key, local-centric ambience as upstate NY, except on real mountains. :smileyvault-stirthepot: Big Sky is the only exception to the above. Similarly Idaho excepting Sun Valley, and also eastern Washington. James, ChrisC and I have all had one week trips into this region with TRs...

That is the scenario where a lengthy recreational trip by yourself can really get you in trouble. From 1997 - 2004, mine were only a week at a time and my ex bitched about all of them.

Almost as much as the 496 on top of Mt. Washington! How often does Lake Ontario freeze over? I would think more often than Lake Superior but that 1977 stat implies otherwise.

Bohemia Pass situation is interesting. It's like 2020-21 when Liz got a Loveland Pass and skied 8 days on it, none of them at Loveland. I think Ski Cooper had something similar and they got kicked off Indy because of it. Indy has aggressively expanded its roster and dominates the space for...

Non-skiing spouses significantly put a drag on how many ski days people get and how many $$$ they spend on skiing. Those have strong effects upon where people can ski. Even Lonnie may have had his 3-month road trips but he was squeezing every penny of expense on them. When Liz' knee flared...

I believe the non-skiing spouse factor was what I was missing here. Jimk has the ideal ski season arrangement for that scenario, and given Harvey's ski preferences he will not be too far off that. Lonnie's situation, off skiing by himself for 3 months at a time, is probably unusual. But his...

When NASJA had its 2009 meeting in Lutsen, former admin's friends from Vermont Scott and Susan Staples drove from Vermont and hit Bohemia on the way. If you drive that far, you might as well keep going to Montana, which I'm quite sure would be Harvey's favorite western state.