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Alta has more snow and better topography for early season. Base elevation is 8,500 and the lower mountain is mellow on the Albion side and very protected north facing on Wildcat. Relentlessly steep areas like Snowbird need a lot of coverage. Anything under a 50 inch base is a minefield and it...

You should follow Stuart. He is fascinated with mom-and-pop ski areas, and why some are more successful than others. A lot of that comes from his formative ski years in Michigan.

Recall that Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods dated for nearly 3 years.

Yes. The Cascades are forecast to get 2-4 feet this week. Colorado is forecast to get snow in its typical modest but more frequent increments. I'd say it's a close call which region gets the majority of its terrain open first. Utah and the Sierra are also in this dubious competition for...

I'm sure many of them have been profitable in the long run. The question is how much worse might it get and if so at what rate. My conclusion as researched here is that the Northeast has always had a rain problem but that it is getting worse very gradually. There is no question that the rain...

I’ve seen that rain forecast for New England. I do not expect it to wipe out ski bases but we can expect some temporary run closures after a rain/freeze.

In post #23 I wrote:

Snorkeling video 1:28 with sea lions, Dec. 5: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1393078229138681

For accomplished ski tourers, which I have never been, the Atlas Mountains are the best way to get Africa. Jimmy had a masochistic trek up Mt. Stanley in Uganda. Lesotho is at the moment the only lift served and limited to 500-700 vert of manmade because winter is dry season. Ice Axe...

That was the Mansfield Stake. JSpin and Powderfreak conclusively proved why its canister measuring snow would systematically understate and essentially ignore any storm total over two feet. I believe there is little dispute that Stowe and Smuggs average close to 300 inches (I have 296 for...

:eusa-wall::eusa-wall::eusa-wall:I'm not the one asking the questions. You and Jason are. JSpin and Powderfreak addressed these questions in minute detail in 2015. Please read their posts, as they are far more knowledgeable than either Stuart or I am.

Schweitzer is sitting at ground zero with 1% open now. Mammoth will ski very well with just a couple feet more new snow, though probably needs more than that to open chair 22. Banff is even better than we discussed last week with 3 feet of snow since then. A 4-5 foot base at those places...

Some of us would like to know that in-season reported numbers resemble reality. When I'm fairly sure they don't, I'll stop using them. As evidenced by this thread as well as the one from 2015, many eastern ski junkies do want to know the gory details of the local microclimates. I defer to...

Now, and abnormally so. Why would anyone expect them to stay this high for a week at this time of year without a specific forecast predicting that? The predictions say the rain/snow line will be higher than average but below Alta's base by this weekend, which is within the range of credible...

Where are you getting this? AI? OpenSnow Utah forecast one hour ago is here. Current snow Utah level is 9,000+ but storm is mostly farther north so even above 9K it will be 3-6 inches max. The storm this weekend is expected to have snow level 8,000 feet with Utah once again on the southern...

Strange Le Massif is only reporting 34 inches. Relatively speaking Whiteface is doing as well as the Vermont areas at its latitude: Its 66 inches is 187% of normal, comparable to Stowe's 182%. Whiteface is 72% open, the most this early in the 18 years I've tracked it. Gore is the latitude of...

Today's progress report is hopefully the low point of the season. How bad is it? Overall not uniformly bad in all regions like two years ago, but the worst regions are more extreme. As we know the Northeast is having a huge start and western Canada is above average. The regions currently as...

Today was mostly cloudy, and that also prevented an overnight freeze. Morning skiing needed less effort than Monday, but more thin spots got exposed in the afternoon. Liz took 3 runs on chair 12, reported favorably. It’s intermediate and all natural snow but low traffic with a slow chair of...

Lyngen Lodge is northern Norway, has an excellent reputation. But you need to get ski touring gear, train on it and be comfortable that you will fit in OK. The ski training would be difficult from Brisbane. But if you could do those 1,000 meter hikes near you for several days in a row, you...

Congratulations on making it to Antarctica, How many people do you think have skied there by now? I’d guess 1,000-2,000. With that done you are a candidate to join me and Jimmy Petterson in the ski 7 continents club. FYI Jimmy has skied more countries (75) than I have visited (72). I...