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Wednesday morning had the best powder in terms of snow quality of the entire two weeks on Cenidor. It's a fairly short run and there's nothing too challenging, but it's perfectly fun for 7 untracked pow laps. No pictures from Cenidor, the powder feeding frenzy meant zero stops. We saw Vulcano...

Tony is correct that August 24th had more wind affected snow, but with my bigger skis, it still skied very well if you kept your speed up and didn't break through the crust. I spent the day exploring new couloirs and starting longingly at Entre Rios and the other sidecountry peaks. My skiing...

Tony's report is very detailed, so I'll just add anecdotes and the few pictures I have. As previously mentioned, I had some travel difficulties getting to Las Lenas, but ultimately didn't miss out on any god skiing as a result of them. My first day was August 23rd, and with Marte looking like...

It looks like most of the South American resorts just got some nice snowfall, but not enough to open yet. Given that I once again have a lot of vacation time to use (and importantly for me, am able to take the time off), I booked flights to Buenos Aires. I land in BA the morning of August 21 and...

I've got rock skis, and I value the quality of skiing over the condition of my gear. Plus after 4 years of low-tide skiing in Mammoth, I don't really care about hitting rocks--it's expected. Shockingly, my skis (which had no fewer than 10 core shots going into the day) didn't suffer that much...

From the bottom of the Avy chutes, it's a quick boot pack to basically the top of Ch. 4, where you can then get back to the mill. Then hitchhike from there back to Main. Lower Roadrunner is burned out, so you have to take the quick hike up to the top of Ch. 12 to return from the backside. I...

Figured I'd start a Mammoth thread today as Tseeb seems like he was here as well. Long story short, today was one of the best days of the season. Given that Mammoth's spring hours are 7:30-1:30, I got in line for Chair 1 at 6:45 and was the only person there for a little while. Control work had...

Thanks for showing me around! Although Sunday was the least good day (of Fri-Sun) and Snowbird was better than Alta last weekend, Admin and crew took me down what must have been the best line on Backside at Alta--a line I doubt I could have pieced together on my own. Friday and Saturday were...

There's already snow on the ground, El Nino is in the forecast, and I was able to book a cheap round trip award ticket (fully refundable for $100), so I'm headed to Las Lenas. Currently I leave LAX on Thursday, 8/28, so I'll be able to catch the direct overnight bus to Las Lenas from BA on...

I was at Altabird on 3/22 and it was surprisingly good. I started at Snowbird and enjoyed some decent dust on crust on Silver Fox and High Baldy. There were zero crowds and trams were walk-on. The Baldy Chutes were open at Alta but the hike from the Snowbird side was not, so I headed over to...

I was at PC on Friday 3/21, which doesn't seem to have been as good as Saturday. My best run was Pinecone Ridge around 11:45am. The bootpack is nice and quick and the corn was perfect. Unfortunately, it got a bit cloudy and cooler in the afternoon so it wasn't full on corn on the rest of the...

I was also at Solitude on 2/9. I'd been there before but when I was young and didn't know how to ski, so basically no recollection. Got second chair on Powderhorn and had a few runs there before meeting some local college kids who kindly showed me around the mountain for a while. We had a few...

My first ever day at Powder Mountain. All in all, it lived up to expectations. There's nothing steep, but there's also zero competition for powder. Every run I took (and I skied until 4:30pm) was either entirely untracked or at least mostly untracked. \:D/ The day started out looking like...

I'd say it was 10 feet or just slightly more than that, with one exposed rock that made things a bit more challenging. And the kids were doing tricks off it, 3's, 7's and a few flips. They're way better than me.

I was sick of not having decent snow at Mammoth, so I decided to drive all Wednesday night to get to Alta in the morning. After a truly miserable drive, I picked up my pass and got 7th chair, not too bad. I don't really know the mountain, but I met a friendly local on my chair who showed me...

I have perhaps my last chance for a while to take time off work, so I'm headed to Utah tomorrow. I'll probably sleep for a few hours in whatever random rest stop looks most inviting and then make it to Alta in the morning. I don't know the mountain very well, so anyone want to play tour guide...

Just got off the hill and have a flight to catch, but surprisingly, today was even better than the last two. Maybe 2-3 inches fell overnight on top of yesterday's 6-8, and the wind had smoothed some stuff out to make for perfect conditions. The Face of Bell was smooth and only lightly untracked...

A couple inches of snow were expected last night, but I awoke this morning to nothing and the sun peeking through the clouds. Nevertheless, it started dumping around 8am and the gondola was on wind hold when the lifts opened. I had to take 3 lifts before reaching any skiing as a result, and...

25 minutes from the pick up point. I probably dropped in 3-5 minutes from the top, so I think it's reasonable. There was a decent lineup of in-shape locals all gunning for the powder and I only got passed by maybe 4 people, so I'm guessing I was hiking fairly quickly. Why the Bowl hate? I...

Due to flight cancellations, delays, and diversions, I finally reached Aspen around 11:15 last night. Then I waited 45 minutes for them to unload our bags from the bus (flight was diverted to Grand Junction), but my ski bag was nowhere to be found. It took at least an hour to file a lost baggage...