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I’ve done one trek with an army of porters, the Inca Trail in 2007. The Quechua porters were short in stature but tough as nails. 3 of them tag teamed carrying 200+ pound Andrew for about an hour on the third day, which was fortunately not uphill. That was Andrew’s problem on day two...

The cause of death was a heart attack in James’ link above! My pack situation is like the no helmet related to my poor temperature regulation. I nearly always carry alternative gloves and mid layer, and usually both glasses and googles.

Our friend Margaret from our Iron Blosam group is with Liz this week and carrying a GPS tracker so we can tell where they are. The screenshot below shows them at 13,000 feet but the steep final ascent trail is the dotted line going SW from their location this morning (here, means evening there...

In 2003 and 2004 I was cat skiing at Island Lake a week after a Pineapple Express but fortunately it snowed enough before I arrived. This year they were skiing groomers there for 2 weeks after the Jan. 13-14 widespread rain. areas are still bad now, which is why I’m skipping them. You can be...

I e-mailed Mt. Rose about The Chutes. Policy is that website shows them closed except during hours they are actually open. This means if you check in the evening or early morning before lifts open, they will show being closed. This misled me on my Jan. 31 snow report which I will correct.

On Friday at Mt. Rose we were also joined by Paul from San Jose who has a place in Incline Village. As forecast Friday was sunny except for this odd cloud that covered the bottom quarter of the Slide Mt. side at noon. This was a fast morning of groomers all in excellent condition, starting...

I stayed with Bob and Pat in Reno for two nights, skiing Palisades Thursday and Mt. Rose Friday. They also have a home in Big Bear and Liz and I skied with them there first in Jan. 2021 and then here at Mt. Rose in Feb. 2022. Bob and Pat fit the Jimk profile of retirees, typically skiing 3...

10 day deterministic is now 49 at Alta, 29 at Park City, fairly typical ratio. :eusa-dance::eusa-clap::eusa-dance: I grabbed that deal today. I was probably driving into Canada on the 16th anyway because everything between here (Reno) and there is so crappy. This is a year Chatter Creek rates...

43 inches in next 10 days from deterministic forecast.

An excellent summary of the reasons we reserve only flight and car rental until a week or two before arrival.

Nobody is going in there from the bottom. There is a mesh fence at the top. What I noticed in particular was that metal drum with striped pole above it perhaps 15 feet high. That will presumably tell patrol where the fumarole is if it gets buried as in 2006. In 2006 the area cleared by the...

We were on second chair so that Castle run we could ski anywhere, but it was just a bit too steep for the amount of new snow with a frozen granular subsurface. I thought it might be a true low angle powder day, of which our one backside run was the best example. But those West Bowl runs...

I started my 5 week road trip driving to Mammoth Sunday, arriving just in time for start of the Super Bowl. On the way I noticed bizarre evidence of the strange winter we are having. This section of the 14 freeway near Palmdale will bloom poppies, typically in April, of wet years. The Antelope...

I knew Tuesday would be strictly groomers, and one would think given Heavenly's reputation in the ski world that Vail would do its best there. I think overall they did, as groomers above 9,000 feet were intensely reconditioned to packed powder. The catch is that you need a fairly deep base to...

I take the position that anyone who has to get on airplane and pay for lodging can afford to consider guided skiing under the right circumstances. I was solo with Piste to Powder in the Arlberg in 2013 and 2 of the 4 days in Val d’Isere in 2018. It is less easy now to get into a guided group...

I read that Ontario is deep and rarely freezes. Erie is shallow and one would think frozen over by now on a year like this.

The Euro Zone only requires 3 months left on your passport. We investigated because we are going there in both March and July, and my renewal date is December. I will have more time to turn that around after August.

in other threads we have been noting that costs to premier US West ski resorts are getting more out of whack with Europe every year lately. Stuart is even making this point on his stormski.com podcasts. I wonder if and when enough East Coast skiers figure this out and move the needle on...

This trip belongs in the conversation with ours in Val d’Isere in 2018. :drool: And it’s Exhibit A of the value of hiring guides in the Alps, especially on powder days.

Today he did the World War I circuit with the two bus rides. Completely, not requiring the end of day taxi we needed!