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Also not Europe, but this article from January 3 reports brief shutdowns in December by two BC heli operators with mandatory vaccine and testing requirements that nonetheless experienced outbreaks (Mike Wiegele, 12/19/21 - 1/2/22; one of the CMH lodges, "earlier in December," the specific lodge...

Correct. Weird. I grew up about 20 minutes west of EWR. Seemingly half the town commuted by train into the city every weekday morning via the Hoboken PATH. I took the train to get to school every day in junior high and high school. As a free-range child of the early 80s, the train was how I...

Not many locals turned out for powder when we were there in February 2014 on a Friday and Saturday: http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards ... =3&t=11409"; However, that was the "polar vortex" winter and it was cold, which probably helped.

Very nice, tseeb! Beautiful photos. Meanwhile, in other Yosemite-related news: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/californ ... 67170.html

To make a planned 2020 spring break trip to Whistler affordable, we bought Epic local passes last season and skied 6 times at Afton Alps, a local molehill with less than 400 vertical feet, and a day pass that cost $50 last year. Here's the text of my final email to the mothership after all the...

I'm not saying anything James doesn't already know, but pass considerations aside, the options for affordable, low-skier density resorts with decent-to-outstanding terrain and reasonable-to-very-reliable snow within 4.5 hours of Spokane are kind of mind boggling, especially when the border is...

Mustang has cancelled its season: https://www.mustangpowder.com/

Interesting. I hadn't bothered to look at other operations. I also haven't really read the restriction order cited by Mustang as the reason they have not yet opened. It seems possible that different operators simply have different interpretations of just how mandatory the order is. Of course...

It's a little tricky to find, but Mustang does explain. Click on the red banner, then click on "click here to read more" and it will lead you to this: https://www.mustangpowder.com/wp-conten ... pening.pdf

For COVID reasons, Mustang has yet to open for the season. I think they usually get started in early December. First they pushed back opening to January 10, then to January 21, now to February 15. https://www.mustangpowder.com/ (Note the red banner at the top of the home page.) Meanwhile in BC...

If it would raise her standing within the Republican Party, and it were within her power, Kristi Noem would make stopping at stop signs, or stopping in the presence of a school bus with its lights flashing, optional. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ZVW4yvchA

It's super interesting to compare VT and SD. Both states have populations well under 1 million (VT 623,989; SD 884,659). Both states have Republican governors. VT has had very strict state-wide COVID restrictions. SD has had pretty much none. Here are the COVID stats for both as of today...

Actually, the ski areas themselves are required to to make visitors "attest," at ticket sales, that they have followed the COVID protocols, specifically quarantining for 14 days (or 7 days, followed by negative PCR test) and then driving (not flying or taking a bus) straight to Vermont. Here's...

tseeb, I wasn't trying to pick on CO. I was just responding to the 2nd paragraph of EMSC's post above mine. I'm keenly aware of the glass house in which I am living in right now. We're not North Dakota, but it's still a $hitshow here now. Our hospitals have so far been keeping up, but census...

Vt reported 23 new cases today. https://vtdigger.org/liveblog/health-de ... on-monday/" https://www.benningtonbanner.com/corona ... a7250.html" Colorado reported 3,301 new cases today. https://www.fox21news.com/health/corona ... ng-update/" https://www.9news.com/article/news/heal ...

No. But I might try to take the x-country skis for a spin around the golf course tomorrow morning. Should have raked the leaves and put the patio furniture away. I took these pictures around 5pm when I shoveled. It’s still snowing now at 8pm, but the radar indicates it should let up soon.

4 - 8" is forecast for Wild Mt. and most of central MN today.

Buzzkill. We made our permit reservation on May 4. There are some mosquitoes anytime between a little before last frost (historical average early-mid June) to a little after first frost (historical average early September). IMO, bug tolerance is pretty subjective, but here's our take: by...

The Boundary Waters and Quetico are big spots, too. The BWCAW is nearly 1.1 million acres (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_ ... Wilderness) and the Quetico is nearly 1.2 million acres (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetico_Provincial_Park), making for contiguous controlled-access...

We do a week-long wilderness canoe trip every year. Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW, often simply referred to as the BWCA) is a gem, but often "crowded" by our standards during summer school break. Accordingly, we prefer Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park which is just...