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12 years ago I wrote an article on this subject. I guess I'm way overdue for an update. :icon-lol: My wife retired from skiing about a dozen years ago, but skied for 40 years before that. Recently at Schweitzer she took a chair lift ride with me for a scenic lunch in the SkyHouse Restaurant...

I skied five out of six days last week at Schweitzer Mtn, ID. It was my first ever visit to Schweitzer. It was as beautiful as advertised. The skiable acreage (2,900 acres, 2,400' vertical, top elevation 6,400') was more impressive than I expected. The front face of the mtn features quite a...

Aspen Highlands is one of the most scenically beautiful ski areas in the US and these photos prove it. :) Love your Moab shots too. Bravo!

The density would be intensity :) Bulk of new Snow coming later today, so I would expect tomorrow to be a freaky Friday. Visitor numbers start dropping in late March or early April, and are somewhat conditions-driven. The huge number of local snowriders will keep coming if the snow does. But...

Tony, I am going to mess up your timeline with this post, but feel free to rearrange it. 12 Mar 2025 with the two Tonys at Snowbird, UT. I got to spend about three hours with @Tony Crocker today. Tony S (@tseeb) and his wife Lucia joined us for the second 90 mins of that time. Tony C and I...

Loveland Pass Rt 6 was closed on my powder Tuesday too.

That's the million dollar question. You'd think there would be enough locals and vacationers in Summit County to make it busier on a pow day. Perhaps because the snow storm the night before was not predicted to be as good as it was, perhaps because folks in Denver can't charge off on short...

I spent six days recently skiing Copper Mtn and A-Basin in CO, but it is the two days at A-Basin (Mar 4 and 7) that I will discuss here because truthfully they were the most memorable skiing-wise. I love A-Basin. I only get there once every five years or so. The scenery, terrain and stoke are...

I never drank a drop of alcohol until age 21. On my birthday I got puking drunk on Jim Beam while stumbling around college campus. Been a moderate drinker ever since. Mostly beer, rarely liquor.

You covered a lot of ground in your one day in LCC @tseeb The firm-ish snow is made up for by the plentiful parking right now :icon-lol:

I guy told me yesterday on a lift at Snowbird that it had snowed seven Fridays in a row until no snow on Friday, Feb 21.

I make the 6.5 hr drive (mostly very beautiful) at least once every winter from SLC to Las Vegas. Have a tradition of meeting friends there every Super Bowl. Between about 10 to 20 miles north of Vegas on I15 there is a ton of trash caught in tumbleweeds along the side of the interstate. I've...

24 Feb 2025, quiet Monday one week after Presidents Day. About four days removed from last fresh snow, nice sunshine, mild temps around 40 degs F. (Snowbird got 5+ feet between Feb 14-21.) Left Cottonwood Hgts at 8:43am. Arrived Snowbird Entry 4 (Bypass Rd) 9:05am (five minutes slower than...

James D mentioned sometime back about the BS factor with Trump. He uses BS to test the water and initiate negotiations. I honestly think some of the anti-Ukraine BS talk right now is somehow setting things up for a reasonable settlement of the Rus-Ukraine war. I think all of us here would...

Gee, I went to Las Vegas for Super Bowl Weekend and all I came home with was the flu (pretty sure that's what it was, I tested neg for covid). It's cut into my skiing over the last week. Not much to post in this thread. I skied with this bunch at Solitude on Feb 13, unknowing that I was...

Two recent anecdotes: I was complaining to a friendly, young stranger on a chairlift. It was about the clumsy, chaotic attempt by Trump/Musk/DOGE to streamline the Federal Govt. They are throwing out the baby with the bath water. At the end of my diatribe I said, "yet I voted for the guy...

I know it's not the classically clear photo, but there is something especially atmospheric about this shot> You guys are unbelievable world travelers.

Quote from somebody who was at Snowbasin yesterday 2/14/2025: Fridays have been extra busy but today was ridiculous. Might be the busiest I’ve ever seen it! Quote from a second person at Snowbasin 2/14: Some of the heaviest snow I have ever skied today. Even the rainy days earlier this winter...

As of 830 am on Sat 2/15/2025 Snowbird has received 34" in the last 48 hrs. Believe biggest storm of the season. 2-5" more expected every day for the next week! Major delays getting up Rt 210 to Snowbird both Friday and today. 210 closed today until approx 930am. Interlodge imposed sometime...

As Kingslug posted in Alta thread, today 8 Feb 2025 was a real fine ski day. best snow day yet since I arrived in UT two weeks ago. 19" in last 24 hrs. One photo: Snowbird Now off a few days to go to Las Vegas to bet on the Super Bowl and catch a show or two with the Mrs.