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No, you will need the base grind AFTER your visit to Colorado in two weeks. :icon-lol: The small group/steep chutes groups are told that they may do some hiking or skinning to reach places not accessible by snowcat. I wondered about 5th Dimension when skieric mentioned it. It's Mustang's...

MLK weekend in Vermont looks very good. 1.5 feet of snow last week and very close to full operation everywhere including MRG.

That first post demonstrated that he CAN change original plans on the fly, and he bailed on SoCal for being so marginal. Since most skiers who can do that use their flexibility to chase conditions, it was not until this latest Midwest situation that I realized that he would actually abandon...

That was 6 weeks in 2005. But normally the PNW gets frequent enough winter storms that these conditions don't last too long. I'm not pleased as I hit the road for Canada Feb. 8 and it doesn't look I'm likely to see good conditions anywhere along the way. I've never thought of Whistler that...

Competent guides can often extract maximum fun from challenging circumstances. But the key is that weather is allowing you to stay above tree/rain line. This is the third Mustang TR posted on FTO that has more challenging conditions than any of my 10 tours. Hopefully that will change before...

It's not as if the The Streak has received no criticism on these boards. But it's now over 20 years and that discussion has been exhausted. Project 101 has unfolded gradually over the past 3 weeks and evolved into gradually increasing degrees of insanity. Stage 1: Doesn't somebody who...

That warm? If the south facing corn is from rain, I'd expect north facing to be bulletproof. One possible explanation: it snowed but was very high water content snow that is more likely to transition to spring conditions on sunny exposures. That's still surprising at 50 degrees latitude in...

I think that's an insult to Patrick, actually. Patrick skis at molehills because it's his in-season job. Skiing a whole bunch of them not on your home continent on your own dime is on an entirely different level. The T has been included in Worldskitraveller's Ski Challenge page name as of...

Yes, and it's not rational. Many people riding chair 23 look down and think, "OMG I really need a safety bar!" Yet chair 25 remains without one. It's not like you wouldn't get injured falling 20-25 feet off 25 but it doesn't scare people like 23 does.

Good tip for future reference. If weather or full booking derails a Vallee Blanche objective, keep Vallee Noire in mind as a backup plan.

Today FTO readers can truly have a head-exploding moment following Project 101. So here you are, about to ski "the best ski resort in the Midwest" on a powder day, and you skip it because you HAVE TO BE in Ironwood that night to stay on track for running up your count of molehills...

I love the stat focus. It shows that there are ski nutcases worse than Patrick and I are! We are dissecting one of those in this thread. If you look down at the 366 day ski matrix, you can see he (188 days) has a long way to go to catch me (266) or Patrick (282 I think). Another fascinating...

Yes, I've already reearched that Willamette and Hoodoo are not worth adding to my list under current conditions.

His Alpinfans page shows him at 717 as of today.

The Vail article refers to SWE this year now being less than at the same time in 2012, 2013 and 2018. In 2011-12 Vail was 30% open on 73 inches snowfall Jan. 15. Still only 44% open Jan. 21, but 3 feet of snow later got Vail to 84% Jan. 31. In 2012-13 Vail had a dry November but decent...

The skiing is steep and south facing. You have to be lucky to get it in good conditions. I know ChrisC scored it once, and I think he was guided. The off piste in Courmayeur nearly all involves long runs to the valley floor where conditions can be extremely difficult. Don't do it unless...

I've already skied Mt. Ashland. With the less than ideal conditions, there will be only one pit stop in that general region as I head north.

This is a good summation: The weather and often snow surfaces are better inside the building.:icon-lol: Implies he's skied a New Zealand club field. James, you HAVE to ask his total ski area count; he mentioned hitting the 100 mark in the US. And try to work in the Taos/CB/Zermatt inquiry...

You mean like yours truly and SkiTalk? All of ChrisC's points make sense, and he probably knew them before he became active on FTO. Still we are probably a well informed bubble in the big picture of recreational skiers. Nonetheless how can someone with a level of travel that probably blows...

It's rare but it can get warm enough in January for the west and east exposures at Targhee/Jackson to be affected. Notes from 1/25/2006: