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Midweek yes, spring not necessarily. I've had two fresh snow days there, not optimal as both were on weekends and one not that early a start. Sultan and Mayflower got worked over fast, and it better be a big dump because the underlying surface is moguls. Plus the sun hits it hard with the...

Valle Nevado storm total is now 96 inches.

Yes, Andacor sounds like it's not far from bankruptcy. Its share of of the Three Valley terrain is what, maybe 20% including none of the highest parts? Pillan and Osorno are probably very marginal operations.

My experience: 2008 - La Grave Extremely Canadian (booked 6 days). Result: La Grave 4, Serre Chevalier 1, Via Ferrata near Briancon 1. As there had been no new snow in a month, the overcast day at Serre Chevalier was about 2 hours frozen granular piste skiing plus a gourmet lunch. So when the...

Patrick's and Harvey's skiing lifestyles are far out of the ordinary. My comment about famous/more busy vs. under-the-radar/more quiet ski areas are on a spectrum that nearly every skier has to consider, and most of us have formed opinions. I'm overall more biased toward huge ski areas...

Extremely Canadian at Whistler is also a mix of guiding and instruction, but their "World Tours" to Las Lenas and especially La Grave attracted the top end skiers. My advice stands: take a course in the Arlberg or Tarantaise, get on some terrain like I've described from Mammoth and Snowbird...

I'm fairly sure you and Kylie should be in different guided groups. The Bourg St. Maurice setup I suspect would accommodate you both just fine, as would Piste-to-Powder in St. Anton, where I was in second highest out of 4 groups. La Grave is like Alaska; people are there to ski extreme and...

Mountain Capital Partners needs El Colorado, or at least some agreement for a user friendly three area lift ticket and well integrated lift connections. MCP should avoid those southern volcano areas in remote locations with vicious weather. I was not comparing to Palisades or SoCal in terms of...

Sbooker has really stepped up his ski game if he's considering La Grave. I've aged out of that kind of skiing, which is why it was one of the first trips I made at age 55 a few years after divorce.

Yes, but Palisades is latitude 39.2 and Portillo is 32.8, same as San Diego. I think that area of the Andes is absolutely world class for corn formation (high altitude, clear weather night and day), but the meltdown of snow at that latitude can be quite strong. The latitude difference...

I forgot that we had dissected sbooker's day at St. Anton before. We were in the Alps at the same time and James had been with us a few days earlier.

Is that a good idea? I'm perhaps not the right person to question that in view of 3 years of playing soccer in high school in Claremont during the peak SoCal smog years.

You expectation should be like mid-April in the Cottonwood Canyons but with no new snow recently. Probably similar to what Adam, Patrick, Richard and I skied Sept. 6-7, 2007. We also skied Arpa Snowcat Sept. 8-9, Valle Nevado, La Parva and El Colorado Sept. 11-13. Portillo was the best of...

When I was there (21 years ago) it was one cat and always had been. The cat skiing business is very mom-and-pop, really depends on what the operator wants to do. Great Northern was the second cat skiing lodge in Canada in 1979. By 2010 or so Revelstoke Resort soon offered daytrips to Great...

Resort websites today say storm totals are 67 inches at Valle Nevado and 125 inches at Portillo. I found this third party site for Las Lenas: Snow Report July 19, 2026 Elevation Base Depth Las Lenas resort...

I don't recall when this was, but if sbooker had inquired here, I would have strongly argued basing in Lech/Zurs, as I did on my first Arlberg trip in 2013 because I was with my terminal intermediate friend Richard. This was despite me having to get an abbreviated early breakfast twice in order...

My perception is that FIFA wanted the top 4 rated countries (Argentina, Spain, England, France) as the final 4 for ratings and attendance. Does FIFA care how those 4 sort themselves out at the end? It's easy to guess for whom Trump is rooting based upon his opinion of the respective countries'...

Portillo and especially Las Lenas, like Alaska, is more about the terrain than the powder. And like Mammoth, the fresh snow has a high probability of being wind affected. Then you throw in the TISA factor that excavating lifts and getting everything open will take longer than in North America...

I agree more extreme than James. Apples and oranges. I don't see much of a bias from Patrick in famous vs. under-the-radar places. The Streak has an inherent bias toward higher visibility areas because the smaller places are much less likely to be open outside the Christmas to early April...

Valle Nevado, 7/18: Snowfall 24 hrs 95cm / 37.4in Snowfall 48 hrs 161cm / 63.4in Snowfall 7 days 164cm / 64.6in TOTAL SNOW 2026 204cm / 80.3in