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Could that perhaps have to do with skiing 60-100 days in the last 6 months and therefore you are in optimal condition? I have seen skiers who are out of condition struggle in corn snow especially when it was moved around a lot by skier traffic.

Corn snow can be fun. It happens when the snow repeatedly softens daytime and refreezes at night. It takes a few days of this cycle to get form properly. It is never the first day or 2 of the warmup. I start to find corn snow from late March and on. The snow takes on a unique fluidity...

As someone from the NH, considering taking a trip to SH winter, I am wondering why the hesitation to ski more locally?

I am envious. Abasin is one of my favorite places.

I live in Toronto. Typically drive time to Tremblant is 6 hrs. Therefore its not around the corner but a nice getaway for 2-3 days.

I just got back from Mt Tremblant. I got to experience all the seasons in 3 days. Arrived on Tuesday and it was warm (45-50F). A few showers with some distant lightning. They had to close the lifts in the afternoon for 1.5 hrs due to lightning in the area. After the lift reopened, got on the...

I think the NE US and eastern Canada are less geographically constrained allowing for a better mix of real estate. Also suspect there is some crossover from other season work including agriculture.

It sounds like the main key is flying in and out of the same location in touring location. I did not do this with Vietnam (flying into Hanoi and out of Ho Chi Minh City). However this is something that I can certainly do in the future.

Thanks for sharing. The cost of housing across North America has skyrocketed and it seems that low cost basic housing is no longer being built.

I have so far been hesitant to mix a major sightseeing trip with a ski trip. For those of you who do these kinds of trips, how are you finding the experience of dragging the ski gear around in the non skiing locations? This winter around New Years I was in Vietnam touring. We had multiple...

Blue Mountain, my home mountain on the shore of the Georgian Bay (Lake Huron)

I live in Toronto. Still finding US and Canada skiing preferred to European. I have family in Colorado, making that an easy choice while western Canada has both snow, costs and easy accce in its favour. I also have a better knowledge of the mountains and the weather patterns in NA. A...

It certainly seems to me that many chairs are being kept a long time and the high speed lifts have many more moving parts and likely more metal fatigue than the older fixed grips. At my local Altera owned blue mtn, they did a refurbishment of a lift 2 years ago. Kept the poles, and terminal...

I travel frequently with my son to ski. We have been able to keep the bags to one per person relatively easily. 2-3 pairs of skis can go into a double rolling ski bag. We check one full size suitcase for the bulky items. We can each take a rolling carry on suitcase. We put our ski boots...

I had a similar experience last month during the excellent mid-February powder cycle. Parked 50 feet from Pali lift at 8:50 on a powder day. Put the skis on at the car and skied down. The weekday that I had, the Loveland pass was closed some anyone daytriping from Denver had to go...

Looks great. When the snow is good, Tucker mtn can be a lot if fun.

I think this is mostly a concern with larger bags and bags with ski carry straps etc. A basic simple small backpack doesn’t pose the same risk as the packs with more complicated strap setups.

I was at Copper mtn last week. Most of the lift operators were asking everyone to remove their backpacks and hold them on their lap.

I did witness a small child slip under a bar at Shawnee in the late 80’s. Fortunately they landed in a soft pile of snow and were fine.

As someone who used to ride with a backpack and no longer, I understand this reasoning. Once while unloading a chair at Whiteface, a strap got caught on the chairlift and I was still in both shoulder straps. I was tethered and then being dragged by my shoulders as it turned around the...