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Yes, the rainy events appear to me to be weak, because they have not knocked down the trail counts as much as I usually see when monitoring the weekend reports for this table. ChrisC, what AI do you use? The summaries seem quite accurate. I see more variable quality in whatever James uses...

Mott Canyon opening is the best sign of decent coverage at Heavenly. I think there may still be issues at Tahoe lower elevations. Gunbarrel and East Bowl were not mentioned. Still I’d guess 2/3 of Heavenly is in good shape now.

As some of you may know I found a website in the early 2000's that recorded base depths and percent of terrain open for the Front Range Colorado areas at Thanksgiving, mid-December and Christmas Week going back to 1988. The website no longer exists but I downloaded it and update each year. I...

Tacos El Gordo is one of Adam's favorites. There are 3 of them in San Diego and 3 in Las Vegas. When driving from SoCal to Utah, the one on Losee Ave. just NW of the Cheyenne exit in North Las Vegas makes for a quick and tasty lunch stop. I'd call it the In-N-Out of Mexican food.

Jim Steenburgh : Is This The Worst Christmas Skiing Ever in Utah? Answer, same as mine, only 1976-77 was worse. With the recent storm concluded, it's now officially the lowest Nov-Dec with 57 inches at Alta Collins, where records began in 1980-81, the next lowest start at 68 inches. The only...

It must be cold in Whitefish with those sundog pictures; snow looks good though: 15 inches in the past week and 90% open. Fernie is up to 75% open, but Schweitzer and Red are under 25% open.

Some Photoshop work from one of Liz' pics:

The capsule summary: Polarizing current views: https://skitheworld.com/2025/12/is-tellurides-chuck-horning-the-most-misunderstood-man-in-skiing/ https://www.realvail.com/its-time-to-chuck-chuck-telluride-owner-blasted-for-inaction-on-concerts-gondola/a21725/

Recency bias due to death last February. AFAIK the only other patrol deaths this century were the three from the collapsing fumarole in April 2006. Linked article also mentions an incident in 2018 but not with major injuries. Lincoln Mt. chair 22 is surely the most dangerous area to control...

The Peaks was the site of the 2004 NASJA annual meeting, probably the most upscale facility to ever host that event.

I just looked at Hunter's website and it says:

Biggest dumps were in far southwest: 1.5 meters recent storm, 3 meters total. James' kind of places in a country he resists, but the storm was also substantial across the border at Auron and especially Isola 2000. I grazed the OpenSnow reports too, though they often must be taken with a grain...

Assuming you have not committed to lodging, you should expand that radius. In January 2018 we were skiing in the Dolomites 48 hours after landing in Geneva with a short ski day at Pila on the way. The SW Alps have been hammered over the past week. These are obscure places, but as James has...

Rain/snow line in Colorado today is 9,500+ today, falling to 8,000 tomorrow and 7,000 Saturday per OpenSnow. Fortunately precipitation forecast is negligible until tomorrow night. Aspen, Vail and Steamboat have purple mixed precipitation icons on their OpenSnow forecasts for today, but with...

World Cup aerial and mogul events in January are being relocated from Deer Valley to the Northeast.

It's not good for the SoCal ski areas, 100% rain yesterday and all of them are closed today. Mt. High is closed indefinitely due to road damage to Hwy 2 in Wrightwood. It has not been raining here for at least 12 hours and the second round of storms Friday/Saturday are predicted rain/snow mix...

Last night's progress report is here. The West overall is at 61% of snowfall, but that includes the 135% in western Canada. Utah is currently at 32% of average snowfall though 1-2 feet are predicted over the holidays. That could move Alta (42 inches so far) from second worst Nov/Dec behind...

I have been tracking Whiteface's percent open for 18 years and the 72% on Dec. 16 is the highest of those years. Average mid-December is 34% and average New Year's is 46%.

No surprise the strike attracted Stuart's attention this morning. True. Telluride averages 73% open at New Year's. Even though super steep terrain is not often open, chair 9's consistent pitch can open with a modest snowpack. So there's significant class of skiers for whom Telluride is a...

I just posted a new progress report last night. Trail counts overall are up a little bit from last week. Tremblant is up a lot, from 25%to 80%.