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My wife is 50 that day. I am 55 the day after. I want to be on skis that day on something that is not just a WROD. I'm starting to think about where to go. I'll know by March if Mammoth is likely to be open by then? Timberline is guaranteed to be open then? Kylie won't want to do backcountry...

It’s not the money. It’s the extra hassle factor in a limited time frame. Flights to NZ are expensive - particularly Queenstown. Queenstown is about $1000 Aussie pesos return. Auckland about $700. Christchurch about $700. Return to Santiago is only $1800. Given the distance I feel that is...

Don’t I feel like a fool. Is anything real anymore? I hate this age of social media.

I can either do mid September or wait until the week before projected closing in mid October. NZ school holidays finish early October. I’d love to take the opportunity to go to Chile but it’s so much more effort.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17qM3JYFZM/?mibextid=wwXIfr Looks fine to me.

I use a mix of booking.com and Airbnb and have found booking relatively last minute is easy outside local school holidays.

Sorry for the ignorant question but what is ‘comp’ in the table?

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/decoupling-of-income-from-labour-are-we-on-the-cusp-of-an-aifuelled-age-of-abundance/news-story/7d680a5e720187d010c0dab223d63d7d?amp Elon says there will be no need to save for retirement in the coming age of abundance. Perhaps he’ll build us an AI...

Turoa is always very late to start. It’s rare that they open at all before early July. Their season is heavily skewed toward spring. I don’t know why.

That's my preference if we go to NZ. Firstly I've never been there. Secondly it has more elevation that the south island ski areas. The only down side is my wife has relatives in Auckland (where would we fly into) and she'll want to call in to see them. :)

My dates are restricted to September 6 for up to 12 days. NZ would be much easier…… Decisions.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/188PtjXKTS/?mibextid=wwXIfr Another shot of snow coming for NZ this coming week. More for the South Island than the north. I’m really drawn to Mt Ruapehu……… Decisions.

This is no doubt the case but in my opinion Snoworks caters to a different demographic given their courses are a mix of guiding and instruction. They don't attract true experts. Their 'off piste' labelled courses are suitable for levels 4.5 to 6, their 'backcountry' labelled courses are suitable...

Not really. Snoworks doesn't cater to true expert skiers. That course is 'level 5.5' and above. They have me as a 5.5. (By that metric the highest level should be 10 - not 7 :) ). I'm sure it would be nothing extreme and a very steady pace. As it happens the timing doesn't work for me this...

The train idea was suboptimal. I wish someone had advised me of that beforehand. :) We will not go on a ski holiday without a car again. (With the possible exception of a week or multi week ski camp at a particular hill like I have done with Snoworks in the past). Like this one in La Grave -...

Gaper move. It’s worth remembering I am not a life long skier. Aside from a few days when I was about 20 I took up skiing at 39. And I have no way of accessing skiing easily from Brisbane. I’m still a relative beginner on the ski journey.

^^^ @ChrisC What month would you spend in Switzerland?

Where would I buy my Lech beer glass? Or my wife her Lech coffee mug?

Fair points. I have been to the area maybe half a dozen times. I fly in and out of SLC. I generally have a couple/few days at Altabird (staying down in the valley) and then drive to GT and/or Jackson and/or Big Sky and/or Sun Valley then come back for a couple more days at Altabird. I have...

I don’t know those old days. I went there first in March 2014. The experience I had there in January 2025 in relatively low tide conditions was still pretty flipping good.