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Funny you should mention that. It's on Indy Pass and I'm moderately likely to ski there early in the upcoming February road trip. ChrisC and tseeb have covered the flaws well, #1 being the south exposure. The new area tops out at 7,500 feet, while the old one had a base at 7,800. When Andrew...

Small potatoes compared to our last day in Zermatt in 2014. But Liz was a happy camper because This was before Iceland 2015 or Japan 2016.

Any rain at Whitefish early this week as in Washington and much of B.C.? Summit shows no increase in season-to-date since last Saturday. Schweitzer (still only 52% open) reports one inch new snow since Saturday and I think we can read between the lines here: None new at Brundage (Snowave?)...

They may not have to worry about airfare but they do have to decide when to lock in lodging. I'm sure James would agree that an advance booked locked in week at an average Alps resort has at least double the odds of being an as a locked in week in western North America. I would construct the...

Utah is the warmest ski region of the Rockies, and the Wasatch Back is obviously warmer than the higher Cottonwood Canyons. AFAIK no one in western North America has more than about 700 acres with snowmaking pipes. This is not the Dolomites, SkiWelt or Saalbach. I'd guess that with the...

Minneapolis....Ground Zero for law enforcement excess in 2020 and 2026.

I'm hoping that I can add Alpental to my list on the February road trip. There seems to be quite a bit more snow than in Oregon right now.

Lots of Brits ski in France, so Snowheads has French TR's. I haven't looked at them so perhaps they are not as thorough as Alpinforum.

Aspen Mountain does "summer grooming," meaning removing larger rocks from ski terrain so that it can be skied on a modest base. This is routine at low snowfall places like Big Bear and Sun Valley but quite unusual in places like the Face of Bell at Aspen. But Temerity amazes me to be skiable...

Alpinfans is set up to compile massive detail from its posters. Example here. Only in the Alps can someone ski 163 ski areas in 63 ski days. Most Americans are impressed when I say I've skied as much as 30 different areas in one season (my record, measly to the Euros, is 37). Or scroll down...

Yes, that's easy to do in the Alps. It's not a big deal to go west from Zurich if that's where the snow is, just as we drove east from Geneva in 2018 and 2019. It's not so easy in vast western North America, but this guy has 2 months. This year he would have been better off starting in the...

If the guides think it's unsafe to ski at all, I would expect you would get a refund. Now you need to work out that pit stop in Verbier!

China Peak and Dodge Ridge are areas I have ignored. Even though they are in California, they and Bear Valley are not accessible from Tahoe and involve two hour one-way drives from the Central Valley. When corporate ski areas shut down March 15, 2020 I headed for these still open areas, also...

With two months and a rental car, why on earth did he go through the Southwest and Colorado instead of up to Canada? I guess he had a family commitment to be in Santa Fe over New Year's Eve. At least he dumped SoCal from his plans! Yes, I like his commentary and pictures and will review in...

Anyone who ever skied Sierra-at-Tahoe before the Caldor Fire must be amazed by how wide open the ski terrain is now in tseeb's pics.

I think it's worth maintaining the list of the daily itinerary: Dec. 27: Dodge Ridge Dec. 28: China Peak Dec. 29: Lee Canyon between Barstow and Flagstaff, 500 drive miles Dec. 30: Arizona Snowbowl Dec. 31: Santa Fe Jan. 1: Sipapu Jan. 2: Taos Jan. 3: Wolf Creek Jan. 4: Purgatory Jan. 5: Crested...

I'm surprised to see any snow on the ground in January at that altitude/latitude. Spencer's Creek snow measuring site at 1,830 meters had zero snowpack since mid-November.

Me too. But I'm sure James would rather see the Queyras and Maritimes get it as they did over Christmas. :icon-lol:

And rent the fattest skis you can get your hands on!

The lodge is at 5,700 and alpine terrain goes up to 8,000. You are in the situation that occurred during much of 2014-15. If the weather is clear enough to ski the alpine as I did in 2015, you will be OK. Many 2015 tours that were confined by weather/visibility below tree line sucked though.