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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

I would first want to know how much and which areas in Switzerland are impacted by the prime season (second week Feb to first week Mar) school holidays. If needing to avoid that period most of the places ChrisC enumerated would favor before those holidays due to low altitude...

This a very broad debate all over the North American ski world in the Epic/Ikon era: the tradeoff between marquee areas and lower crowds. And this is subjective too. James has always been firmly on one far end of the spectrum on this debate. My attitude is mostly about avoiding worst case...

Not the point IMHO. I've mentioned multiple times in these threads that we are an unrepresentative group here. The positive is the high knowledge base and usually accurate analyses of terrain and snow. Lifestyle choices are more subjective. The bias towards extended travel and new ski...

Did the smoke ever get as far as Miami, site of tomorrow 3rd-4th place game?

https://www.preventionweb.net/news/forest-fires-north-americas-boreal-forests-are-burning-lot-less-150-years-ago Not what I expected to read from Googling "Canada's boreal forest fire history."

Does it include Schlasman's, where you need to have a transceiver? Bridger is a VERY limited area at the advanced intermediate level IMHO. The lower mountain is quite flat and the upper part is technical DFU as well as most of it requiring a hike. Big Sky's terrain distribution is somewhat...

Thread drift regarding number of days to spend at areas not in South America is moved here.

makes bullet points 3-5 above irrelevant to me. Point #1 is actually improved for me because full Ikon is a combined ticket with no surcharge. Thus about half my days in the Ikon era (plus those when Mountain Collective was combined) include some skiing at both areas. As for point #2, my top...

There are lots of Euro reports in this forum. In terms of an overall overview, I this thread should get you started. That's a long enough trip that you can follow the methodology that James, ChrisC and I use. In 20 days you will going to multiple destinations. This calls for renting a car...