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I would ski off Schlasman's at this stage. Was pushed to get a transceiver several years ago by more than one of my regular instructors out west. Would want to go the first time with the instructor I work with at Bridger. The last time snow conditions were not good enough in his opinion...

I've spent the last decade checking out assorted big mountain resorts looking for places I and my senior friends would enjoy for a 2-3 week stay in the future. Meaning when we are all over 70, 75, or 80. Have skied longer than a week at Alta, Taos, and Wolf Creek so far. The typical "crew"...

Yes. I always combine a few days at Bridger for trips to Big Sky. Note that the advanced terrain that I'm looking for does not include the Bridger ridge. Liberty at Big Sky is good fun at this point after a decade of advanced lessons at Alta, Taos, Wolf Creek, and elsewhere. Haven't been to...

For VR's major resorts like Vail and Beaver Creek, the "U.S. casual market" is not the target market. I got an Epic pass for the season post-Covid for a trip to Crested Butte. Spent a few days solo checking out Vail and Beaver Creek in mid-December before driving back to NC. The rental shops...

I've been on one of the "transportation lifts" below Lone Peak. Ski buddy took a wrong turn. He didn't see the brown trail sign when he left the groomer that went to the main base and was going too fast to hear me yell. We ended up wandering around among houses after going down onto a road...

Looks like Waterville Valley has free skiing for 80+. WV has one of the best senior programs I've ever come across. Runs M-Thu mornings. There is a host who has tea/coffee available. Possible to store skis at the lodge for the season for a low fee. Can't say that I've heard of free mountain...

Helpful to know a bit more about you and your skiing interests. Reason I asked about Indy is that I have a friend who skis blues who lives in Boston. She's good company on ski trips. But with a non-skiing husband and a couple of dogs, she usually sticks to day trips from home. In my...

Do you have an Indy Pass?

One of my instructors at Taos has taught there for 40+ years. I was told by someone who knows him well that he was a better skier in his 70s than in his 50s. He had started working more on his technique in his late 60s because of a wonky knee that hurt. So he worked to become even more...

I enjoy variety and checking out new ski mountains. However, I also appreciate not having to figure out new travel logistics when returning to a favorite resort. I have a good time skiing at my home mountain in northern VA because it's a 4-hr drive and I can go with local friends or meet up...

For 2026-27, both Alta and Snowbird are selling Alta/Bird passes for $3188. For 2025-26, 50% off at Alta came out $103/day including tax. My friends were using Alta Gold Cards: $99 in the the spring, 50% off whatever ticket price is relevant based on going through an Alta RFID gate. Snowbird...

I know of plenty of 70+ skiers in multiple regions, including some who are continuing to ski well into their 80s. For those in their 70s, I'm not just thinking about people who stick to groomers. Recently someone started a Facebook Group for 70+ skiers/boarders, which is quite international...

To be clear, the area with ski slopes in Gatlinburg, TN are not served by the year round chairlift first built by Everett Kircher in the 1950s. He was given a thin strip of land just for the chairlift by a local innkeeper and property owner. Boyne Resorts has had nothing to do with the winter...

The steepness of the advanced/expert terrain is a factor. I may have had a better time skiing Alta in April than some late season travelers who are better skiers because the terrain I like is not the steepest terrain. The coverage on the terrain of off-piste terrain I enjoy was fine. I've...

In general, while there is breakdown given for a few countries in Europe, the analysis is limited to the big mountain resort regions in N. America such as the Rockies. The view presented of the N. American ski industry is skewed as a result. Just as France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland are not...

Makes sense. Of the list in Post #1, none were of much interest for me when I only skied blue groomers on straight skis in the 1990s as an adventerous intermediate mostly making stem turns. Never mastered parallel turns on straight skis. I didn't need slopeside lodging. The new-to-me resorts...

The advanced/expert terrain at Taos still brings in new travelers on a regular basis. Perhaps more likely to be curious in the 2020s to check out TSV because it's on Mountain Collective and Ikon. In comparison to the more knowledgeable skiers who traveled there regularly while the Blake family...

What Alta, Taos, and MRG had in common for decades was lack of revenue-generating summer activities and relatively little slopeside lodging in terms of total number of rooms owned by the lift owner/operator. As far as I know, lifts are/were only operated during the winter season. Even though...

I've been using a Trtl for several years. Works for me for flights when I only expect to sleep for 1-2 hours.

Ikon came into the picture several years after the sale to Louis Blake Bacon in 2013. The founder, Ernie Blake, died in 1989. Jean Mayer died in 2020. The Blake hotel opened in late February 2017, more or less a year late. Taos tried to require Full Ikon for a season, as is the case for...