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On Feb. 16, 2024 at Breckenridge Lonnie was struck by a snowboarder, shattered ribs and "tore a hole in his lung." Lung had to be drained for 3 days; ribs were repaired with 7 copper plates, 80 screws and 250 stitches. Lonnie had a concussion and lost 3 hours of memory. He is still in brain...

There was a NASJA Zoom on this topic in 2012. Unfortunately I was in India at the time and I have not been able to find a transcript.

I do too. But the intelligence community told him the odds of that were "farcical." They have also told every administration since Carter that any attempt by the US to force regime change in Iran would be met by a closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Have you read the Maggie Haberman account of...

The Buenos Aires taxi driver incident was in 2009. Patrick still returned to South America in 2010 (decent conditions) and 2012 (very marginal). I am truly puzzled by this year; I'm guessing there are extraneous non-skiing factors we don't know about.

You have never crashed a pond skim? That is me on June 20, 1982. I discovered that skis do not float. Fortunately the pond was only 3 feet deep.

This is no different from reduced advance bookings following bad snow years 30-50 years ago. That's just the way the casual ski consumer (and most people) think: short term recency bias.

Can Nederland elected officials be recalled? Most western states have such provisions in law.

Transceivers are rarely if ever on sale. I got mine via a ski patroller who was eligible for pro-deals. I have never seen them listed among ski journalist pro-deals.

With Trump, everything is personal. I posted about Canada on this thread a year ago. As an ex-Republican I think my level of outrage at this presidency is often worse than from those who have always been left of center. Gotta ask @jimk, have you had enough yet? I'm not ragging on his 2024...

It's safe to say that Patrick's boycott will last to January 2029. Political comments are not censored here, but I have moved them to the appropriate thread. Patrick's FB page says he was in Montreal Aug. 22-23 but in Banff as of yesterday. I think he's going to Parker Ridge, where he claimed...

I have no experience in the VC business. But it's hard for me to see how value could be extracted from a breakup of Vail. Did Vail way overpay for some of its properties, especially the two in Europe? Sure, but that can't be undone. A buyer won't get that many $$ from selling the overpaid...

The more stories I read, the more glad I am we are going as late in the season as we are. The lake was frozen Sept. 6-7, 2007 despite the quite warm weather at the time.

Who is going to Switzerland Dec. 12-20 and being addressed in the above analysis? I'm guessing that with those dates and required to buy 30+ days in advance, ChrisC would never do this in December. The rental car flexibility is priceless in terms of ski quality, and no one has exercised that...

Going into this storm, seasons totals were 322 inches at Portillo and 202 inches at Valle Nevado.

Very late in the trip planning, Jimmy Petterson informed me by e-mail that we HAD to do this if we were going to be in southern Spain. It was a tight squeeze. We were driving south from Madrid to Grenada Aug. 16 to visit the Alhambra the next day, but our flight home from Madrid was on the 19th...

I have never been remotely proficient in a sport as I have been with skiing since 1979. There may have been a pathway in golf given my amateur progress at pitch-and-putt but I knew I would have to invest time and get a lot of instruction to break bad habits. But this was coincident with the...

I won't argue with that one. It's not an accident that my first was at age 46. Both Liz and I should have done Baja in 1991, but I didn't quite "get it" in that pre-internet era and my kids were 2 and 6 years old at the time. Liz and I are travel junkies. All of the 17 eclipse trips I have...

Spencer Creek mid-August snowpack is lowest since 1989.

I reread Jimmy's chapters on Argentina and Chile yesterday. Like skiandgolfnut, he waxes ecstatic about Hotel Portillo. Hotel Portillo is a relic of a bygone era where ski areas served mostly all inclusive onsite guests. The best analogy in my experience would be the late St. Bernard Lodge...

We are renting a 4x4 so hopefully will not need chains. Portillo is not that big or difficult to navigate. It did not occur to me to hire guides any of these places in Chile in 2007. Everything is above tree line and visible so you can decide for yourself what’s in your comfort zone.